Popularly known as Biko throughout the country, but if you go here in Batangas province we called it Sinukmani, a delicious sticky rice cooked with coconut milk and sugar.
Ingredients:
1/2 kg malagkit (glutinous) rice
2 cups water
1 1/2 cups light brown sugar
3 cups coconut milk
Anise (optional)
pinch of salt
dash of cinnamon (optional)
grated coconut meat (optional)
Procedures:
Wash malagkit and drain. Soak rice in water for an hour and then drain again. Add water and cook rice in the rice cooker or medium low heat. In the meantime, bring to a boil the coconut milk and sugar, making sure sugar is completely dissolved. Add pinch of salt and a dash of cinnamon.
After mixture has come to a boil, cook for 30 minutes more, stirring occasionally until mixture thickens and becomes syrupy, then must stir more often.
Add cooked rice to mixture and cook for another 10 minutes under medium low heat. Mix thoroughly. Transfer to a serving platter or to a rounded banana leaf, shape and flatten. Top with toasted grated coconut. Serve and enjoy.
*How to toast the grated coconut
Heat a pan and put grated coconut. Stir until coconut turns light brown. Continue stirring on low heat for about 10 minutes more. Transfer to a small bowl.