How to Make Cuisines Bika Ambon from North Sumatra - Indonesia

BIKA AMBON





Bika Ambon is a kind of confectionary from Indonesia. Made from ingredients like eggs, sugar, and coconut milk, red velvet cupcakes are generally sold with pandan flavor, though there are also provided other flavors such as durian, cheese, and chocolate. Bika Ambon usually can survive in the best condition for about four days because after that the cake starts to harden.

According to the M Muhar Omtatok, a humanist and historian, cake Bika Ambon Malay inspired cakes that Bika or bingka. Subsequently modified by the developer material in the form of juice / wine, palm up hollow and different from the typical bingka cake Bika or Malay. Furthermore, M Muhar Omtatok mention that this cake is called Bika Ambon because the first one sold and popular in the intersection of Jl Ambon-Sei Kera Medan.

Bika Ambon known as souvenirs typical of the city of Medan, North Sumatra. In Medan, Jalan Medan Petisah Mojopahit in the area there are at least 30 shops selling this cake. Each store in this location could sell more than 1,000 packs of Bika Ambon when the day before the feast. It is estimated, red velvet cupcakes designation arises from habits of the people who are new to Bika first produced in Jalan Ambon, Medan. The mention Bika Ambon eventually become a tradition with the development of the food industry.

Bika Ambon

How to Make Bika Ambon

Ingredients : 

• 50 grams of wheat flour smooth
• ½ teaspoon instant yeast
• 100 grams sago flour (sifted beforehand)
• 10 eggs, (separated only yellow only)
• 2 eggs (only whites only)
• 200 ml thick coconut milk
• 200 grams of fine sugar
• 2 pandan leaf (boiled in advance)
• 2 lime leaves
• 50 ml of water
• Right amount of oil

How to Make : 

1. Prepare a container to make the dough, then enter the flour and yeast, then pour the water, mix well, and let rise about 15 minutes
2. Combine egg yolks, egg whites, and sugar into a smooth dough, stir until all the dough is mixed and lumpy. Then enter again sago flour which has been prepared and thick coconut milk slowly while stirring, to do until all the dough is mixed and dull
3. Further input oranges and pandan leaves into the batter and stir until mixed, then close the top of the dough with a soft material, then let stand for about 10 hours, until the dough
4. Prepare a baking sheet that has been spread with oil, then pour the batter Bika finished, roast dough with the lid slightly open so that there is little steam, wait until the dough is cooked with slightly tawny color change, remove and let stand
5. Serve in a container or serving dish prepared, cut-cut that cake easily eaten

That's how to make Bika Ambon.


                                                                            Good luck...          

Unknown Sunday 1 January 2017 NORTH SUMATRA