Rice Balls in Coconut Milk

Ingredients

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• Coconut Milk Coconut Milk 300ml 1 & 1/5 cups
• Granulated Sugar Granulated Sugar 70g 1/3 cup
• Table Salt Table Salt 1/2 tsp 1/2 tsp
• Glutinous Rice Flour Glutinous Rice Flour 100g 2/3 cup
• Sweet Potato Sweet Potato 1/2 1/2
• Table Salt Table Salt pinch pinch
• Roasted Sesame Sauce Roasted Sesame Sauce 1 tbsp 1 tbsp

Instructions

1. 1.Peel the sweet potato and dice into cubes. Add a saucepan of water to the stove and bring to a boil. Cook the sweet potato until soft, approx. 15 mins. Once the sweet potato is soft, remove from the stove and set aside to cool for 10 mins.
2. 2.Add the flour, salt and sweet potato to a bowl and mix well. The dough should neither be too wet nor too dry – it’s perfect when it does not stick to your fingers and glues together (not falling apart). This usually depends on how fresh the potato is. If it’s too dry add 10ml water, if it’s too wet add 20g flour.
3. 3.Now bring 2l of water with 2 tsp of salt to boil in a big pot. As soon as it boils, reduce to a simmer.
4. 4.Take the dough and roll it on a floured surface until it looks like one big spaghetti with 1 cm diameter. Take a sharp knife and cut it in 1 cm slices. Roll every slice with your palm gently for 3 seconds until round-ish. Add all of them at the same time into the water, still on a simmer. Cook for approx 10 mins until the balls rise to the surface.
5. 5.Meanwhile pour the coconut milk into a small pot, add sugar and salt and bring to boil. As soon as it has boiled, remove from the stove.
6. 6.When the balls are done take them out and rinse under cold water. Add them to the coconut milk immediately.
7. 7.Enjoy warm in the evening or topped on crushed ice on a hot day. Sprinkle Sesame before serving.
8. 8.PS. In Thailand this desert often comes with different coloured balls. I made 2 more colours as it looks nicer. I added 2 tbsp of blueberry juice plus 2 tbsp more flour to one third of the dough and 2 tbsp of mango juice plus 2 tbsp of flour to another third of the dough and the last third I left as per the recipe above.

Nutritional Information

• Calories:
  421
• Fat:
  7g
• Sodium:
  227mg
• Carbs:
  86g
• Sugar:
  38g
• Protein:
  4g