Kue bugis is

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kue Kue is an Indonesian bite-sized snack or dessert food. Kue is a fairly broad term in Indonesian to describe a wide variety of snacks including cakes, cookies, fritters, pies, scones, and patisserie. Kue are made from a variety of ingredients ...

'' or traditional snack of soft glutinous rice flour cake, filled with sweet grated coconut. The name is suggested to be related to

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ethnic group of

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as their traditional delicacy, and it is originated from

Makassar Makassar (, mak, ᨆᨀᨔᨑ, Mangkasara’, ) is the capital of the Indonesian province of South Sulawesi. It is the largest city in the region of Eastern Indonesia and the country's fifth-largest urban center after Jakarta, Surabaya, Med ...

. In

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the almost identical kue is called kue mendut. Kue bugis, together with ''

kue lapis Kue lapis is an Indonesian , or a traditional snack of steamed colourful layered soft rice flour pudding. In Indonesian means "layers". This steamed layered sticky rice cake or pudding is quite popular in Indonesia, Suriname (where it is simply ...

'' and ''

nagasari Nagasari is a traditional Javanese steamed cake, made of rice flour, coconut milk and sugar, filled with a slice of banana and wrapped in banana leaves. Etymology ''Naga'' in Javanese language means "a big snake; a dragon". It refers to a myth ...

'' are among popular ''kue'' or Indonesian traditional sweet snacks, commonly found in Indonesian traditional marketplace as ''jajan pasar'' (market munchies).

Ingredients and cooking method

The cake is made of ''ketan'' (

glutinous rice Glutinous rice (''Oryza sativa var. glutinosa''; also called sticky rice, sweet rice or waxy rice) is a type of rice grown mainly in Southeast and East Asia, and the northeastern regions of South Asia, which has opaque grains, very low amylose ...

) flour as the skin, filled with grated

coconut The coconut tree (''Cocos nucifera'') is a member of the palm tree family ( Arecaceae) and the only living species of the genus ''Cocos''. The term "coconut" (or the archaic "cocoanut") can refer to the whole coconut palm, the seed, or the ...

flesh sweetened with palm sugar. The skin is made of flattened dough made from the mixture of glutinous rice flour, wheat flour, mashed potatoes, ''santan'' (

coconut milk Coconut milk is an opaque, milky-white liquid extracted from the grated pulp of mature coconuts. The opacity and rich taste of coconut milk are due to its high oil content, most of which is saturated fat. Coconut milk is a traditional food i ...

), sugar and salt, and colored with ''suji'' or green colored pandan. The sweet filling is made of grated coconut,

palm sugar Palm sugar is a sweetener derived from any variety of palm tree. Palm sugar is sometimes qualified by the type of palm, as in coconut palm sugar. While sugars from different palms may have slightly different compositions, all are processed s ...

, salt, and pandan leaf for aroma. Traditional kue bugis is wrapped in

banana leaf The banana leaf is the leaf of the banana plant, which may produce up to 40 leaves in a growing cycle. The leaves have a wide range of applications because they are large, flexible, waterproof and decorative. They are used for cooking, wrappin ...

, usually young banana leaf which is thin and green-yellowish in color, the contemporary version however might uses plastic wrapper. There are several version of kue bugis, the traditional common one is green colored kue bugis acquired from ''suji'' or pandan leaf. Another version include black kue bugis which uses ''ketan hitam'' or black glutinous rice flour. Another variant is called ''kue bugis mandi'' which is green ball covered in whitish layer made of white glutinous rice with coconut milk.

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Kue Bugis Recipe

Black Glutinous Rice Kue Bugis Recipe

Video of Kue Bugis Ketan Hitam
{{Indonesian cuisine Kue

Ingredients and cooking method

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