Palitaw
By: PinayInTexas
Published: Wednesday, February 23, 2011 - 10:42pm

Ingredients




2 cups glutinous rice flour
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1 cup water
1/4 cup sesame seeds, roasted (I use ⅛ cup white sesame seeds and ⅛ cup 1 cup freshly grated coconut

Preparation

1 Combine glutinous rice flour with water and mix until a dough is formed. 2 Scoop about 1 ½ Tbsp of dough then mold it into a small ball. 3 Flatten it into oval-shaped dough using the palm of your hands. Grease your hands with a little butter spray so dough won't stick. 4 Boil water in a cooking pot then drop the dough one by one into it. 5 About a minute after the flattened dough starts to float, remove them from the pot and set it aside allowing them to cool a bit. 6 Combine sugar and roasted sesame seeds. Mix well. 7 Coat both sides of palitaw in grated coconut. Sprinkle with sugar-sesame seed mixture. 8 Arrange in a serving plate then serve with your favorite drink. Share and enjoy!

About


Palitaw is a native Filipino snack made with galapong which is ground malagkit (sticky rice). If you are not in the Philippines like me, using glutinous rice flour could be an option. Palitaw is cooked quickly in briskly boiling water, then rolled in freshly grated coconut and then sprinkled with mixture of white sugar and toasted linga (sesame seeds). The name is derived from the Filipino word litaw, which means to float or to surface. The name is descriptive of the way palitaw is cooked: the flat oval-shaped dough is dropped in a casserole of boiling water and when it rises to the surface after about 30 seconds, it is fully cooked. In some regions, palitaw is called dila-dila because of its oval shape that makes it look like a tongue (dila).