Palitaw (flat Rice Cake)

Name: Palitaw (flat Rice Cake)
Total time: 1500 s
Yield: 10 persons
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 3 cups glutinous rice flour; 1 cup granulated sugar; 2 cups water; 1/2 cup sesame seeds roasted; 3 cups grated coconut; as needed Ube extract (purple yum)

Chef Marie Ruth Roman @mruthroman01

Philippines

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) you can use simply coconut ,sugar and toasted sesame seed for flavoring.

Chef Marie Ruth Roman @mruthroman01

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Ingredients

25 minutes

10 persons

3 cupsglutinous rice flour
1 cupgranulated sugar
2 cupswater
1/2 cupsesame seeds roasted
3 cupsgrated coconut
as neededUbe extract (purple yum)

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Steps

25 minutes

1

Combine glutinous rice flour with water and mix until a dough is formed, while forming the Dough combine the ube(purple yum) extract for coloring.
2

Scoop about 2 tablespoons of dough then mold it into a ball-shaped figure.
3

Flatten the ball-shaped dough using the palm of your hands.
4

Boil water in a cooking pot then put-in the flattened dough.
5

When the flattened dough starts to float, remove them from the pot and set it aside allowing water to drip.
6

Combine sugar and roasted sesame seeds then mix well.
7

Roll the rice cake in grated coconut then in the sugar-sesame seed mixture.
8

Arrange in a serving plate then serve. Share and enjoy!