Gluten Free Dessert - Sum Sum

Sum Sum (rice pudding with syrup) is one of my favorite traditional Malay dessert also known to be originated from Javanese food.  It's can be served cold or as warm dessert. I prefer it cold...it's soft, coconuty milky, sweet and refreshingly delicious. 

Sum Sum is easy to prepare and also Gluten-Free food and it's way healthier than cheese tart when you eat in moderation..(^o^) It's made from rice flour and coconut milk, serve with some brown sugar or palm sugar syrup.

What is Gluten-Free?

A gluten-free diet is a diet that excludes the protein gluten. Gluten is found in grains such as wheat, barley, and rye. Basically rice flour is gluten-free, but if you're sensitive to gluten or having celiac disease, be sure that you purchase rice flour that has gluten-free mark on the packaging because gluten might get transferred if the same mill was used also used to produce wheat flour. <source: Google>

Basic Sum Sum Recipe

Ingredients

A: for the rice pudding

1 cup of rice flour (white rice flour, if you're using brown rice flour the color will be brownish)

1 cup of coconut milk 

3 cups of water

a pinch of sea salt 

2/3 pandan leaves for fragrance (optional)
you can put a drop of food coloring if you want the pudding with color.

B: for the syrup

half cup brown sugar ( adjust to preference) / I used palm sugar

1 cup water

1 pandan leaves ( optional)

Methods

1) Combine all ingredients in A together into a small pot. 

2) Bring to boil with small heat. Stir continuously.

3) Continue stirring until rice pudding cooked. It becomes silky and thick (image below). This will take around 15- 20 minutes, and you will see it make a small pop. Remove from heat

4) Transfer into baking pan or pudding mould and let it set to cool. 

6) In another small pot, combine B to make sugar syrup. I used palm sugar as it is easily available here and have the coconut fragrance.

7) Refrigerate both pudding and syrup. Scoop pudding into cup and pour syrup to serve.