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
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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