# Ketupat (Compressed Rice Cakes)

**URL:** <https://puchong.co/t/ketupat-compressed-rice-cakes/232>\
**Category:** Food Recipe\
**Tags:** malaysia-dessert, recipe\
**Created:** [April 19, 2020, 2:29pm UTC](https://puchong.co/t/ketupat-compressed-rice-cakes/232 "2020-04-19T14:29:35Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 19, 2020, 2:29pm UTC](https://puchong.co/t/ketupat-compressed-rice-cakes/232/1 "2020-04-19T14:29:35Z")

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Image credit:[Wowkeren](https://www.wowkeren.com/berita/tampil/00259301.html)

> Yield: 6 servings  
> Cooking: 35-40 minutes

### Ingredients

- 500 g Short or medium grain rice
- 4 cups Water
- Banana leaf or aluminium foil

### Directions

- Bring the water and rice to the boil.
- Cover tightly with lid.
- Turn heat very low and cook for 35-40 minutes until all water is absorbed.
- Stir vigorously with a wooden spoon.
- Then press rice into a cake tin or pie plate to a depth of about 2.5 cm (1 inch).
- Use a piece of washed and greased banana leaf or greased aluminium foil to cover the surface of the rice and put another plate on top.
- Press down very firmly the plate.
- Put a weight on top and leave at room temperature for a few minutes, until very firm.
- Remove weight, plate and banana leaf and use a wet knife to cut rice into 5 cm squares.
- Serve with spicy peanut sauce.

`These firm rice cakes are usually cooked in individual baskets of woven coconut leaves so that the rice swells until it fills the basket and becomes firmly compressed. Here is a simple and more practical way of producing similar results in Western kitchen`

2020-04-29T16:00:00Z