Moron

Two rice doughs, one plain and one chocolate, rolled together so the finished log is striped.

Vegan.

Ingredients

• 500 g glutinous rice flour
• 600 ml coconut milk
• 250 g caster sugar
• 60 g cacao powder
• 80 g peanuts, toasted and ground
• 0.5 teaspoon salt
• 24 banana leaf pieces, 25 cm square
• kitchen string

Method

1. TWO DOUGHS, ROLLED TOGETHER, so the slice shows a spiral. Make the full quantity, divide it in half, and work the cacao and ground peanuts into one half only. Mixed into a single brown dough you have a chocolate suman; rolled together you have this.
2. BOTH DOUGHS MUST BE THE SAME STIFFNESS or the roll tears. The cacao absorbs liquid, so the chocolate half will need an extra 2 to 3 tablespoons of coconut milk worked in. Judge it by feel against the plain half, not by the recipe.
3. Wilt the banana leaves over a flame until limp and glossy, or they split when folded.
4. Mix the rice flour, coconut milk, sugar and salt and cook it in a wide pan over a low heat, stirring constantly, 12 to 15 minutes, until it is a stiff paste that comes away from the pan in one mass.
5. Divide it. Work the cacao and peanuts into one half while it is still warm, with a wooden spoon and then with oiled hands.
6. Cool both halves 15 minutes, until handleable.
7. Roll each half out on oiled plastic into a sheet 20 cm by 15 cm and 8 mm thick. Lay one on the other and roll them up from one long side, firmly, with no air between.
8. Cut the roll into 5 cm lengths with an oiled knife. Each cut face should show the spiral.
9. Wrap each piece in a leaf, fold the ends under, and tie two together back to back.
10. Steam 45 minutes. Cool 10 minutes before opening -- hot, the dough sticks to the leaf and the spiral smears.

Our own recipe. This one was written for this site rather than taken from anywhere, so there is no source to point you at. The quantities and the order of the steps are choices, not the only way to do it.

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