Palitaw Recipe

A plate of Palitaw, a traditional Filipino rice cake, served with a creamy coconut sauce and topped with crunchy toasted sesame seeds and sugar.

Ingredients

  • 1k galapong malagkit (glutinous rice dough)
  • 1 coconut, meat grated
  • ½ k. sugar
  • Water for cooking
  • Sesame seeds, toasted

Instructions

  1. Divide the galapong into several portion, depending on the size of serving you desire.
  2. Roll each portion into a ball and flatten to make a tongue-like shape.
  3. Boil some water. While the water is boiling, drop each of the galapong portions. It is cooked when it surfaces.
  4. Remove each cooked portion. Allow to cool.
  5. Dredge in grated coconut and sprinkle with sugar mixed with toastedsesame seeds before serving.

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