Hello everybody, it’s Drew, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, palitaw. One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
If you're looking for a quick and easy snack or dessert to complete your holiday feast, this rice cake is a must on your menu! Palitaw is a term used to call a sweet flat rice cake that is eaten in the Philippines as a snack or dessert. Originally, grounded or pounded sticky rice is used to make this rice cake (called kakanin in the local language) - however, the practice of using packaged rice flour became common because it is more efficient. Palitaw is chewy, sweet rice cake that is coated with sugar, coconut, and sesame seeds.
Palitaw is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. Palitaw is something which I have loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.
To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have palitaw using 6 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Palitaw:
- Prepare 2 cups Glutinous rice flour
- Get 100-150 g grated coconut
- Make ready 1 cup water
- Prepare 1 pot of boiling water
- Prepare 2 tablespoons Toasted peanut (preferably no skin) or toasted sesame seeds
- Make ready 2-3 tablespoons sugar (depends on preference of sweetness)
Toss the coconut with the salt together in a separate bowl. Palitaw is one of the most delectable deserts in the Philippines. It appears to be small, flat and tastes sweet - sometimes called rice cake serve as desert in Philippine restaurants and in many homes. It can be made from malagkit (sticky rice) washed, soaked and grounded.
Steps to make Palitaw:
- Mix the glutinous rice flour and water in a bowl into a dough
- Roll into small balls and flatten using your thumb
- Put them in a pot with boiling water. Once it floats, remove it from the water and then cover it with the grated coconut. Reserve some grated coconut for the topping.
- For it's topping, grind the toasted peanut in mortar and pestle. If you have peanuts with skin it is easy to peel the skin after toasting. No need to grind if you are using sesame seeds. If using sesame seeds, you can lightly toast it first in a pan to add toast-like flavor. Mix the peanuts/sesame seeds with sugar and any remaining grated coconut in a bowl.
- To top it with the sugar-peanut mixture (step 4) then serve
It appears to be small, flat and tastes sweet - sometimes called rice cake serve as desert in Philippine restaurants and in many homes. It can be made from malagkit (sticky rice) washed, soaked and grounded. Palitaw is actually glutinous rice flour and water mixed into a dough, rolled into balls, boiled until they're soft and kind of chewy, and rolled in coconut and sugar. And if you're having a party, you decorate them with colored sugar or food coloring and put 'em on a stick, because food on a stick = party. Palitaw Recipe is very easy to make, deliciously sticky and chewy.
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