I decided to make some Filipino rice balls.It's like mochi, but we call it Palitaw and contains coconut milk and shaved coconut. I swear this is the easiest snack/dessert that you will ever make, and I’ll teach you how.

“Nothing is that simple to cook,” I hear you say. Well, I beg to differ my sweetplum. All you’ll need for this are THREE ingredients:


1. Heat the coconut milk so that any solidified forms are melted. DON'T bring to boil! Once it's melted, take it off the heat and let it cool down.



2. If you want your Palitaw to be coloured, just add a drop of food colouring on the milk and mix. Otherwise, place the rice flour in a bowl and add the coconut milk little by little, mixing it in between.

3. Mix it until it's the consistency of dough. You don't want it to be too gooey like paste:


Or too hard, coz it'll end up like overchewed gum, like these that I made the first time I made Palitaws hahaha:


You'll want it to be sticky, but still able to hold it's shape like play-doh:


If it's too gooey, add more rice flour. If it's too hard, don't add more milk. Add water.

4. Put water on a pan and bring it to boil. Now the traditional Palitaws are formless or round. But stuff that. We'll be creative and go crazy on the shapes Form the rice cakes with your palms and, once the water is boiling, drop them into the water. Cooking it with water will make it more chewy than microwaving it or steaming it

5. It's impossible to overcook this, why? Palitaw literally means to appear, and that's because once it's cooked, it floats to the top. Mad eh?


You can drop in a lot of the rice cakes in the water at the same time, as long as it's boiling. They won't stick together, don't worry =D

6. Spread the dessicated coconut on a plate and just bathe your palitaw with it. Be generous: this is the good stuff!


That's it! Finished! Kapish! This batch only took me 30 mins to make!


If you think it's not sweet enough, just add probably a spoon of suger before you mix in the milk. Oh, and you can put something in the middle if you want. I've never tried it myself, but I guess you can put Nutella, peanut butter, or red bean paste. The traditional palitaw is just plain, usually eaten for breakfast or as an afternoon snack.

Me? It's awesome with coffee!



Cheers!

Replies: 4 Comments

it looks..so yummy... Thank you for such detailed tutorial on how to make palitaw...it looks better than mochi lol i must bookmark this ^--^

Thanks for sharing that! It looks like it turned out really good and yummy!

Lol I was just using my sister's computer... my laptop's a Toshiba too but it's about 4 years old.

Oh I hope you make it I forgot to say to not put it in the fridge: it'll knock your teeth off when you try to bite it. And substitute the coconut milk with plain water if you don't like coconut much

I'm definitely trying this as soon as I can, it looks so yummy!

By the way, I think we have the same notebook computer. Awesome!

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