Palitaw Queen

I don't speak kitchen so it is difficult for me to technically describe my kitchen adventures. I am not really back on my mojo but it seems these is not much to do. Talking about food again isn't a very bad idea. So here goes something simple for those who love the kitchen but don't really have time to stay there.

I'm probably the only person in our current household who has the patience to cook palitaw. I hate to describe something as if I got it straight from Wikipedia but this is basically just rice flour cakes coated with grated coconut, sugar and sesame seeds. Palitaw is extracted from the Tagalog word litaw which means float. And that is basically how this snack is prepared.

Ingredients:

• glutinuous rice flour (ground malagkit or "sticky" rice)
• white sugar and toasted sesame seed mix

To cook it:

• Heat water into a deep saucepan. Where I am from, we use a caldero.
• Pour all flour into a another container. Add water in small parts until consistency of a dough.
• Roll dough into balls roughly as big as center of palm.
• Squeeze the dough between palms until flat and drop into boiling water.
• Dough is cooked when it rises to the surface.
• Scoop and drop into a bowl of grated coconut.
• Sprinkle or dip into a mix of white sugar and toasted sesame seed for flavor.

After having written this, I realized it is sooo much better to just cook and eat and then shut up.