How to Make Biko (Filipino Sweet Sticky Rice) Recipe

About

Biko is a sweet rice cake from the Philippines. It is made of coconut milk, brown sugar, and glutinous rice. It is usually topped with latik (either or both the coconut curds or the syrupy caramel-like variant). It is a type of kalamay dish and is prepared similarly, except the rice grains are not ground into a paste.

Ingredients

[toppings – latik]

1 can Coconut Cream – https://amzn.to/36XlnbC
1 cup Brown Sugar – https://amzn.to/3bbzZr8
Dash of Salt – https://amzn.to/2uf8jkA

[Biko – main ingredients]

3 cups Sweet Rice – https://amzn.to/2SgMHfS
1 can Coconut Cream – https://amzn.to/36XlnbC
1 can Coconut Milk- https://amzn.to/2GVsMxu
1 cup Brown Sugar – https://amzn.to/3bbzZr8
Dash of Salt – https://amzn.to/2uf8jkA

Steps

[Toppings – Latik]

Add coconut cream, brown sugar and salt in a pan
Turn on the heat
Mix the ingredients until it gets thicken
Turn off the heat and set it aside

[Main]

Cook Sweet Rice
Prepare a pan, add coconut milk, coconut cream, sugar, salt
Mix all the ingredients
Turn on the heat
Keep stirring
After 5 minutes of stirring, simmer to reduce the liquid
Add sweet rice
Mix well together until you see the oil is coming out from the rice mixture (You will notice that the rice mixture is shiny due to the oil and see the spots on the pan)
Spread butter in the tray and transfer the rice in the tray for baking
Preheat the oven to 375F
Spread the topping (latik) on top of rice
Bake for 15 minutes
After baking is done, switch to Broil and broil it for 5 minutes
Cool it down and serve it!