Onde Onde Kuih 椰丝球

Ingredients

• 200 grams glutinous rice flour (sifted)
• 180 grams orange sweet potato (cooked, peeled and mashed)
• 10 pandan leaves (cut into thin strips)
• 200 ml water
• 100 grams palm sugar (crushed)
• 1 tbsp sugar
• 100 grams grated coconut (from young coconut)
• 1 tsp salt

Instructions

1. 1

   --- Prepare Coating: ---

2. 2

   Mix young grated coconut with 1 tsp salt. Then steam for about 5 minutes and set aside. Next, prepare the filling.

3. 3

   --- Prepare Filling: ---

4. 4

   Crush palm sugar into small pieces. Add in 1 tbsp sugar and mix till well combined. Then set aside. And we're ready to prepare the Onde Onde dough.

5. 5

   --- Prepare Dough: ---

6. 6

   First, prepare pandan juice. Cut pandan leaves into very small strips. Put into a blender and then add 200ml water. Blend till fine and strain the juice.

7. 7

   Next, prepare sweet potato paste. Cook sweet potatoes by boiling or steaming in a pot. Then peeled and mashed into a paste. And we're ready to make the dough.

8. 8

   To make the dough, first flour a wide bowl. Put mashed sweet potato on top and flatten on floured surface. Then add pandan juice and continue to mix. Add glutinous rice flour in 2 batches and knead into a smooth dough.

9. 9

   --- Make Onde Onde: ---

10. 10

    Divide into small doughs and wrap each dough with palm sugar filling. Then roll into balls. And we're ready to cook the filled onde-onde.

11. 11

    --- Cook Onde-Onde: ---

12. 12

    In a pot of water, add knotted pandan leaves and balance of pandan juice. Then bring to a boil. Lightly put in the rolled dough balls and simmer until cooked whereby the dough balls float to the surface.

13. 13

    Roll and coat each cooked onde onde with young grated coconut.

14. 14

    These onde onde can be served warm or at room temperature. So Enjoy!