Khmer Cuisine-How to cook Num Ansom Chek

Khmer Cuisine – How to cook Num Ansom Chek

                                                                                                             Text Socheata

1.    Ingredients

a.         Sticky Rice           3 Cups

b.         Well ripe banana  6 appr

c.         Grated coconut    1bowl

d.         Salt                      1/4tsp

For covering and streaming

-       Banana leaves

-       Strings from Banana fiber

-       streamer

2.    How to cook

a.         Soak sticky rice overnight, then in the morning filter water away and put the rice in the sieve to drain extra water.

b.         The sticky rice don’t need to fully dry and put the grated coconut mix together.

c.         Take the cut bananas and mix it with salt.

d.         Place a small portion of rice and spread vertically banana leaf and make space in the middle then place banana piece on it.

e.         Folding the rice cake in banana leaf and bend the leaf to close one side by press the rice and banana tighter inside but without collapsing the shape.

f.          Use the string tight from the top of cake until the bottom.

g.         Fill the steamer with enough water and place the streaming bowl then close the lid of streamer and steam around 20 mins.

Source:CAMBODIA TOURISM MAGAZINE volume 09, Issue 48 Jan, FEB 2018

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