Sweet Potato Moho Kuih / Huat Kueh (with yeast)
Servings: 12 large or 20 small
A cake that will not make you feel entirely guilty eating. Soft, fluffy and love biting into bits and pieces of mashed sweet potatoes in this steamed huat kueh.
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Ingredients
- 500 gr mashed sweet potatoes
- 2 large eggs
- 260 ml coconut milk
- 1 Tbsp instant yeast
- 300 gr coconut sugar or sub with dark brown sugar
- 500 gr all-purpose flour
Instructions
- Steam the sweet potatoes until soft and mashable. Then mash while still hot. Set aside to let it cool down completely before mixing into the flour
- In a large mixing bowl, mix flour, eggs, coconut milk, mashed pumpkin, coconut sugar, yeast. You will have quite a thick and sticky batter and that's the way it is, don't panic. Cover with plastic wrap and let the batter rest for 1 hour in a warm place. It will double in size. Once it rises, this is an important step and you must not skip it or you will not have a good result: STIR THE DOUGH TO MIX IT WELL
- Get your steamer all hot and ready. Line the individual muffin cups with paper. Only fill up the cups as many as you can steam. Do not fill them up and waiting to be steam. Portion the dough into an individual cup and fill it up all the way to the top and then top it up with 2-3 more tablespoon of batter. This will give you a large "flowering" top. The top will break into 3-4 segments like a flower if you "overfill" it (it will not spill because the batter is sticky and thick). Once you fill them up in the cups, they must go to the steamer as soon as they can or they will continue to rise if they are sitting in the cups for too long
- Steam on high heat for 15-20 minutes. DO NOT be tempted to open the cover or they will not rise
- You will see how the top has expanded and broken into 3-4 segments and that's what we want in moho kue. Remove from the steamer. STIR THE BATTER AGAIN and then fill up more cups to steam. Continue until you run out of batter. This will store at non-humid room temperature for about 3 days. They may harden a little bit as they cool down but you can microwave for few seconds or steam on high heat for 2 minutes or so and they are soft and fluffy again
Notes
The cups I used to steam the cakes are from Indonesia, but you can definitely use something like this (affiliate link)
