How to Make “Onde-onde”
published by CHAN LEE PENG on Nov 15, 2007
This is a local Malaysian delicious dessert that goes well with tea and coffee. These green balls of “onde-onde” are very easy to make and do not cost you much.
Ingredients:
- ½ kilo of sweet potatoes
- Some “pandan” juice (can be extracted from pounded “pandan” leaves)
- 100 gram of glutinous rice flour
- A pinch of salt
- Some pieces of “gula Melaka”
- Some grated coconut
Method:
- Scrub off any soil from the sweet potatoes
- Wash the potatoes
- Boil some water and put the cleaned potatoes into the boiling water
- Boil them for approximately 30 minutes and cool them
- Peel the potatoes and mash them in a mixing bowl
- Sieve the rice flour
- Add in the fresh “pandan” juice to give both the flavor and the green coloring
- Add a pinch of salt and mix well into smooth dough
- Pinch some of the dough and flatten in the palm
- Put a piece of “gula Melaka” in the center and shape the dough into a ball
- Continue doing step 10 with the rest of the dough
- Cover them with a clean cloth so that they do not dry up
- Boil some water in a pot
- Drop a few dough balls into the boiling water
- They will be float to the surface once cooked. Use a strainer to lift the cooked balls
- Place the cooked balls onto a plate of grated coconut mixed with a little sea salt
- Roll the green “onde-onde” balls in the coconut and are best served while still hot
# 1 by Adrianna
November 18th, 2007 at 9:21 pm #
Do you have any idea of a source in the United States for pandan and gula Melaka? I would like to try this recipe, but I’m not sure where to find these ingredients or what to replace them with if I can’t find them.
# 2 by CHAN LEE PENG
November 19th, 2007 at 8:49 am #
Dear Adrianna,
I’ve no idea of a source of Pandan and gula Melaka in U.S. May be you can try to look for them in the supermarkets. You may substitute gula Melaka with “grated coconut, powdered peanuts mixed with brown sugar”. As for pandan, you can use chemical free coloring, but its taste is slighly less than the pandan.
# 3 by roma
December 28th, 2009 at 11:35 pm #
You can buy frozen pandan leaves, palm sugar (gula melaka), glutinous rice flour and pretty much anything asian at the Ranch99 markets. Lots of them here in California. Go to their website and see if they have one near you.