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Cucur Badak Recipe
December 22nd, 2006Recipes, Eating Light, Recipes, Malaysian Recipes, Recipes21 Comments
One of my favorite Malay kuih-muih (local cakes and sweet treats) is Cucur Badak. Much like many other Malaysian creations, Cucur Badak calls for really basic ingredients–sweet potatoes, flour, and grated coconut–but it’s the preparation method of these everyday ingredients that makes the taste ingeniously flavorful…
If you’ve tried Pulut Udang before, you will get the idea of how Cucur Badak tastes like. Filled with grated coconut seasoned with turmeric, lemon grass, red chilies, and dried shrimps, the fillings are wrapped with sweet potatoes dough instead of glutinous rice. And instead of grilling them over fire, they are deep fried to golden brown…well, you get the idea.
I am constantly amazed by the art of making kuih-muih: the techniques, the shapes, the ingredients, and the plain creativity behind each recipe. I am learning the how-to’s slowly but surely; hopefully I will be able to make more of these delights in the near future.
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As born and raised Malaysian, what is this snack looking food?
I can sorta imagine what that tastes like, and it just sent me to my happy place.
- Chubbypanda
wahhhhh looks really good …i think i can smell the aroma thru my monitor!
Yum yum! One of my fave snacks (along with the other cucur, cucur udang). Looks so lovely!
strangely enough, i prefer malay kuih to chinese kuih (i never like those nyonya kuih except kuih talam), and cucur badak is one of my favourite (because of the shrimp. haha).
Anonymous – they are a kind of Malay kuih. You can find them at Malay kuih stalls. Try them, they are delicious.
CP – Imagine no more…pack up and go to Malaysia for your next vacation.
Teckiee – yes, they were good. I still have a couple frozen ones in my freezer.
WMW – Cucur Udang is good.
Lucia – you can certainly go out lunches and dinners with me as we love the same kinds of food (I will call you up when I go back to Penang for CNY!). LOL!
that looks so tasty
*drool*
hmmm i have never seen these cucuk badak before. is it a North Malaysia food? Maybe I should specifically look out for it. :)
Keropok Man,
Yeah, they are not easy to find even in Malaysia and it’s getting tougher and tougher to find nowadays :(.
I am not sure about Singapore, but you can try out Malay kuih stalls and ask them for Cucur Badak. :)
Looks so yummy.I’m drooling all over the place
I sort of imagine the taste, I never tried those before. What a treat they seem.
hi..
just wanna share some of my homemade kuih-kuih..some are nyonya kuih, malay kuih n even mat salleh’s kuih..:D
http://www.geocities.com/ninopod/images/kuih2nadia.jpg
errr…mind the pics…taken in rush
Call me ignorant, but I don’t know much about Far Eastern ingredients, although I’m very willing to learn. These dried shrimps, why do you use them? Why not fresh shrimp? Is there a difference in taste? I’ve been eyeing the dried shrimp paste in my pantry lately, but I have no idea how to cook with it…
Thanks so much for this recipe. Looks authentic and wonderful! Cucur badak is something I’ve enjoyed from young. Now I can make it while living abroad. You’re a blogosphere national treasure!
I’ve tried your Cucur Badak recipe but without deepfrying (can’t deal with the oil smell in the aftermath). The sweet potato dough was too ‘wet and sticky’ to form into balls, so I put the lot in a glass casserole dish in the oven. Taste was good, but by then i had added too much flour to the sweet potato (in a vain attempt to make it less sticky).
But thanks for all the tips and great flavours.
That cucur badak looks good. It one of my fav kuih too. Thanks for sharing the easy recipe.
emm,,,
macam ni rupenye cucur udang
sedap nampaknye ni
jadi lapar pulak
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Thanks for the recipe Rasa Malaysia. Your cucur badar looks simply scrumptious.
Instead of buying them at the Malay kuih stall, i think i shall attempt to make them myself. The recipe looks simple enough. Wish me luck!
I tried this recipe and they came out really good! The filling is to die for but I had to try at the dough twice to get it right because the first time I made it I didn’t roll out the dough and it didn’t fry all the way through!
Thanks for trying the recipe glad that it works out for you the second time.