Klepon (Indonesian Stuffed Sweet rice balls) | Indonesian Cuisine | Flavour Diary

Today's recipe is all the way from Indonesia... yes its far southeast country. For this months MFBC challenge we got to select a recipe from Indonesia and this is the first time i am trying a recipe from this country .... i was searching for easy recipe which is vegetarian but couldn't find many recipes to try and the ones which i found needs some local products going in but atlast i found a recipe called Klepon which is simply a rice balls which are stuffed with palm sugar akka gud (in hindi) and if we don't have palm sugar then we can make use of brown sugar and i did used it in the recipe.

Level: Medium
Total Time: 50min-1 hr

1 cup: 250ml
1 tablespoon: 15ml
1 teaspoon: 5 ml

Recipe is adapted from here 

Ingredients

Rice Flour: 100gm
Lukewarm Water: 100ml
Palm Sugar/ Brown Sugar: as required
Shreded /Fresh grated coconut for rolling 
Food Colour

Directions


Mix the rice powder with the lukewarm water and green food coloring into a firm but flexible dough.
Pull off  tablespoon full of  dough and shape it into a ball with approximately 2½ cm (1 inch) in diameter.
Push a finger into the center of the ball to make a hole, and put in approximately ½ teaspoon of the brown sugar. Seal, and roll it back into the ball shape with the palms of your hands.
Prepare all the balls and set them aside.
Prepare a pot half filled with water and bring it to a boil.
Drop the balls into the boiling water. Remove the balls with a spoon once they float to the water surface and then roll the balls in the grated coconut.
Serve at room temperature.

#Klepon  is going to be part of #MFBC under #IndonesianCuisine

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