Recipe of Any-night-of-the-week Kuih Lopes | Coconut Glutinous Rice

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The ingredients needed to make Kuih Lopes | Coconut Glutinous Rice:

1. Take 2 cups glutinous rice
2. Prepare Food coloring (typically green)
3. Take 2 cups coconut milk
4. Take 1/2 cup water
5. Make ready 1 tsp pandan flavoring
6. Get 1 tsp salt
7. Prepare 15 tbs muscovado sugar and 1 cup of water
8. Make ready Grated coconut and some salt

Steps to make Kuih Lopes | Coconut Glutinous Rice:

1. Wash the rice and soak it with food coloring for 3 hours
2. This is how glutinous rice looks like if purchased in my country (Italy)
3. Drain water from rice and place rice inside rice cooker along with coconut milk, water, salt and pandan flavor. Mix them well. If you don't have rice cooker, just cook following the instructions on the rice packaging. With rice cooker, it will take about 30 mins.
4. This is the pandan flavoring I bought from Malaysia. There's no substitute for the flavor, but easy to find in any Asian market.
5. This is the coconut powder I use to make 2 cups of coconut milk.
6. While waiting for the rice to cook, prepare a cup of water to boil with muscovado sugar until it forms the density and sweetness you prefer. For this brand, I used 15 tablespoons. Let it cool.
7. When rice is done, flatten it in a square pan lined with baking paper. Make sure to flatten it, and let it cool.
8. Cut into the sizes you like and coat them with grated coconut and salt mixture. Serve with muscovado syrup that is prepared earlier.

Try Using Food to Improve Your Mood

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Make a few trail mix of nuts or seeds. Your mood can be elevated by consuming peanuts, almonds, cashews, sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, and other types of nuts. This is because these foods are rich in magnesium, which helps to raise serotonin levels. Serotonin is a feel-good chemical substance that directs the brain how to feel at any given point in time. The higher your serotonin levels, the happier you will feel. Nuts, on top of raising your mood, can be a great source of protein.

Cold water fish are great if you wish to be in a better mood. Wild salmon, herring, mackerel, trout, and tuna are all full of omega-3 fatty acids and DHA. These are two substances that increase the quality and function of the grey matter in your brain. It’s the truth: consuming tuna fish sandwiches can really help you overcome your depression.

Grains can be excellent for fighting a terrible mood. Barley, quinoa, millet, teff, etc are all great for helping you be in a happier state of mind. They help you feel full too which can really help to make your mood better. Feeling famished can truly bring you down! The reason these grains help your mood so much is that they are not hard for your body to digest. You digest these grains more quickly than other things which can help promote your blood sugar levels, which, in turn, helps make you feel better, mood wise.

Green tea is wonderful for moods. You just knew it had to be mentioned in this article, right? Green tea has been found to be packed full of an amino acid called L-theanine. Research has proved that this amino acid induces the production of brain waves. This helps improve your mental focus while having a relaxing effect on the rest of your body. You already knew that green tea helps you be better. And now you know it can help improve your mood also!

So you see, you don’t need to stuff your face with junk food when you are wanting to feel better! Try a couple of of these suggestions instead.