Bunga Telang dan keledek

Tok cik cook Tong Yuan and onde-onde (buah melaka ) for sahur . Dark Blue Tong Yuan made from blue extract of Bunga Telang, while the purple and orange Tong Yuan Balls made from sweet potato.https://www.facebook.com/adibah.azhari.1/media_set?set=a.726192327397292.1073741851.100000195931898&type=3

Pokok Bunga telan growing wild,every where during this raining season

mature pods of bunga telang

Frozen Bunga Telang . Some times I don't have enough fresh bunga telang to use, so frozen bunga comes to rescue.I normally keep a lot of bunga telang in freezer bags for using as food colouring. (For this recepi I used around 50 ), sips in hot boiling water for few minutes then mash/crush/squeeze the extract.

 mashed steamed orange sweet potato mix with glutinous flour to make the dough

steamed purple sweet potato for making purple dough

mashed steamed sweet potato mixed with glutinous flour,knead into dough  ,

dough flatten to add in coconut sugar as filling before rolled into balls

balls ready to be boil

dough , making into rose shape

ready to be cooked

in the Hot boiling water

cook until done, the balls will be floating 

Cooked kuih will be having chilling time in cold water bath for a while

tong yuan in syrup

simply yummilicius tong yuan , Tong yuan balls serve in sugar syurup

we also have roses tong yuan too

 (normally onde2 is covered with grated coconut, but  my kids like plain,so here is or version of Onde2 in my garden) 

more info on bunga telang herehttp://www.malaysiavegetarianfood.com/2013/03/29/bunga-telangthe-natural-blue-food-dy/