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Onde-Onde (Malaysian Dish)

Ingredients

1 1/2 cup Glutinious Rice flour (pulut flour)
1 cup Coconut Milk
1 Screwpine Leave or 1/2 tsp Pandan Paste
1 tsp Sugar
Green Colouring
1/2 cup block Brown Sugar (gula melaka)(chopped up)

For coating:

1 cup fresh grated Coconut (the white part only)
A pinch of Salt

Method:

1. Extract coconut milk using a blender. Add in the screwpine leave and blend together. S eve it. Leave aside.
2. Mix grated coconut with salt. Leave aside.
3. Mix sugar and colouring into the coconut milk.
4. In a bowl add in the rice flour, add bit by bit the coconut milk and make into a dough.
5. Boil some water in a bowl. Leave it to boil first. Take a marble size or bigger the dough. Flatten it in your palm add a bit of chopped brown sugar as filling and cover and roll into a small ball size. Immediately put it into boiling water. Do the same way with the rest of the dough.
6. Cooked balls will float up in the water. Dish out and roll it in the grated coconut.
7. Leave it to cool before serving. (try using rose essence if you can't get screwpine leaves)