Balinese Rice Cakes
Monday, June 2nd, 2008 by Rina-EditorTraditional religious ceremony in Bali can never be apart from rice products as offerings. Those can be anything that has been cooked. Two rice products that is a must for Balinese in every traditional ceremony is traditional cakes named Uli and Begina.
Uli and Begina are made of sticky rice known as ketan in Bali. Unlike Uli that has smoother structure, Begina is formed by many full grains of sticky rice. There are sweet and salty Uli and Begina.
Though Uli and Begina are both made of sticky rice but the process of making these cakes are different. For Uli, you have to crush the steamed sticky rice, and mix it with grated coconut which has the same amount with the amount of sticky rice. Palm sugar (brown) sugar will be added into it if you want to make the sweet one. Then it is dried but before that Uli have to be sliced as thin as possible. If the sun is blazing hot it takes only a day to dry the Uli. However, most people nowadays like to eat it without frying or drying it. The fried Uli nowadays, are mostly use as offering rather than for the purpose of consumption.
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