Ube (Purple Yam) Coconut Rice Balls

• 1 cup Lukewarm Water, Or As Needed
• 2 cups Glutinous Rice Flour
• 23 cups Ube Halaya, Or As Needed, For Filling, See My TastyKitchen Recipe Box
• 1 cup Coconut Flakes
• Sugar, For Rolling Rice Balls
• Sesame Seeds, For Topping

1. Before preparing rice balls, boil some water in a medium saucepan.
2. Stir 1/2 cup of the lukewarm water (not the boiling water youll use that for another purpose) into your glutinous rice flour, adding a little bit more water from the remaining half cup as needed until the dough comes together and is firm but pliable.
3. Flatten a tablespoon of dough into a circle then fill it with 1 teaspoon of ube halaya*.
4. Gather the sides of the dough around the ube halaya and pinch to seal.
5. Slowly roll the dough between your palms to make a ball.
6. Drop a few balls in the boiling water.
7. After a minute or two, the rice balls will float.
8. When they do, ladle them out of the water and immediately roll in coconut flakes and sugar.
9. Top with sesame seeds.
10. *For Ube Halaya recipe please check my TastyKitchen Recipe Box.
11. Notes: 1.
12. You can purchase pre-made ube halaya in Asian stores.
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14. Feel free to substitute the ube halaya filling with sweet potatoes or dulce de leche.

water, flour, halaya, coconut flakes, sugar, sesame seeds

Taken from tastykitchen.com/recipes/appetizers-and-snacks/ube-purple-yam-coconut-rice-balls/ (may not work)