Kuih Dadar (Kuih Tayap)

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Kuih dadar or kuih tayap is a rolled crepe flavored with pandan juice and filled with grated coconut steeped in gula melaka or Malaysian palm sugar.

Prep Time10

Cook Time10

Total Time20

Course: Nyonya Recipes

Cuisine: Coconut

Keyword: Kuih Dadar

Servings: people

Calories: 360kcal

Combine the pandan leaf and water in an electronic blender and blend for a minute. Wrap the pandan in a cheese cloth or muslin cloth and squeeze to extract the juice or strain through a fine sieve. Set aside.
Sieve the flour into a mixing bowl. Make a well in the center and crack in the egg. Slowly stir in the salted coconut milk and 3 tablespoons pandan juice. Set aside.
Break up the palm sugar and combine with the sugar, pandan leaf and water in a pot. Cover over a medium flame until sugar dissolves. Strain the syrup and return it to the pot. Add in the grated coconut and corn starch and continue to cook for a few minutes. Dish out into a bowl.
Heat up a shallow frying pan over a low flame and grease lightly with oil. Pour 2 tablespoons of the batter in the center and swirl the pan to coat it forms a thin crepe of about 13 cm (5.1 inch) in diameter.
When the crepe is cooked, transfer it onto a chopping board.
Place 2 heaped teaspoons of filing on the crepe and roll it up like a spring roll.
Serve immediately.