Name: Palitaw Recipe
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 25 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: Filipino
Ingredients: 2 cup glutinous rice flour; ½ cup granulated sugar; 1 cup water; ½ cup sesame seeds; 1 cup coconut

Palitaw Recipe

Enrichetta Robson Modified: November 12, 2023

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How To Make Palitaw

Hailing from the Philippines, palitaw is a flat rice cake that is served as a snack or dessert. It is topped with grated coconut, sesame seeds, and sugar.

Prep: 10 mins

Cook: 15 mins

Total: 25 mins

Serves:

Ingredients

2 cup glutinous rice flour
½ cup granulated sugar
1 cup water
½ cup sesame seeds, roasted
1 cup coconut, grated

Instructions

Combine glutinous rice flour with water and mix until a dough is formed.
Scoop about 2 tablespoons of dough then mold it into a ball-shaped figure.
Flatten the ball-shaped dough using the palm of your hands.
Boil water in a cooking pot then put-in the flattened dough.
When the flattened dough starts to float, remove them from the pot and set it aside allowing water to drip.
Combine sugar and roasted sesame seeds then mix well.
Roll the rice cake in grated coconut then in the sugar-sesame seed mixture.
Arrange in a serving plate then serve. Share and enjoy!

Nutrition

Sugar: 26g
:
Calcium: 196mg
Calories: 568kcal
Carbohydrates: 97g
Fat: 17g
Fiber: 6g
Iron: 4mg
Monounsaturated Fat: 4g
Polyunsaturated Fat: 4g
Potassium: 220mg
Protein: 9g
Saturated Fat: 8g
Sodium: 9mg
Vitamin A: 2IU
Vitamin C: 1mg

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