Ingredients:
• 1.5 cup- Glutinous Rice flour (pulut flour)
• 1 cup- Coconut Milk
• 1 Screwpine Leave or 1/2 tsp Pandan Paste
• 1 tsp- Sugar
• Green Colouring
• 1/2 cup- block Brown sugar (gula melaka)(chopped up)
• For coating:
• 1 cup- fresh grated Coconut (the white part only)
• A pinch of Salt
Method:
- Extract coconut milk using a blender. Add in the screwpine leave and blend together. Sieve it. Leave aside.
- Mix grated coconut with salt. Leave aside.
- Mix sugar and colouring into the coconut milk.
- In a bowl, add in the rice flour, add bit by bit the coconut milk and make into a dough.
- Boil some water in a bowl. Leave it to boil first.
- Take a marble size or bigger the dough. Flatten it in your palm. Add a bit of chopped brown sugar as filling, cover and roll into a small ball size.
- Immediately put it into boiling water. Do the same way with the rest of the dough.
- Cooked balls will float up in the water. Dish out and roll it in the grated coconut.
- Leave it to cool before serving (try using rose essence if you can’t get screwpine leaves).
Recipe courtesy of Sudha