Natural 5-colour Glutinous Rice Balls

By pfwombat

Ingredients

• Natural colourings:
• Pandan Sweet Soup
• (for 1/2 portion, about 120 balls)
• 1 L water
• 90 g sugar
• 2 pcs pandan leaves
• Brown Sugar Ginger Soup
• (for 1/2 portion, about 120 balls)
• 1 L water
• 25 g ginger (smashed)
• 20 g brown sugar
• 80 g sugar
• 2 pcs pandan leaves
• yellow colour : 150g pumpkin + 40ml water
• orange colour : 100g carrot + 40ml water
• green colour : 10g pandas leaves + 90ml water
• red colour : 9g beetroot + 90ml water
• White dumplings :
• (48 balls)
• 80 g + 20g glutinous rice flour
• 15 g icing sugar
• 60 ml + 2 tsp water
• Coloured dumplings :
• (48 balls)
• 80 g + 20g glutinous rice flour
• 15 g icing sugar
• 70 ml + 2 tsp juice

Details

Adapted from mykitchen101en.com

Preparation

Step 1

1) Pandan Sweet Soup : Bring water to boil, add in sugar and panda leaves. Bring to boil again, then turn off the heat. Set aside for later use.
2) Brown Sugar Ginger Soup : Bring water to boil, reduce to medium -low heat, add in ginger, cover and cook for 10 minutes. Add in brown sugar, sugar and panda leaves. Bring to boil again, then off the heat. Set aside for later use.
3) Yellow colouring : Add water to pumpkin, blend until smooth, extract pumpkin juice.
4) Orange colouring : Add water to carrot, blend until smooth, extract carrot juice.
5) Green colouring : Add water to panda leaves, blend until smooth, extract panda juice.
6) Red colouring : Add water to beetroot, blend until smooth, extract beetroot juice.
7) Dumplings : Mix together 80g glutinous rice flour and icing sugar, add in 60ml of water/70ml of juice, continue mixing until a dough is formed.
8) Measure out 15g of dough and cook in boiling water.
9) Combined cooked dough and raw dough, mix until well blended.
10) Add in another 20g of glutinous flour and 2 tsp of water/juice, continue mixing until a dough is formed again.
11) Roll the dough into strips, cut into small pieces, then shape into small rice balls.
12) Freshly cooked glutinous rice balls have the best texture. Just cook the desired portion, store the remaining portion in a freezer safe container and freeze for later consumption. (separate each layer with cling wrap)
13) Cooking the dumplings : Bring a large bowl of water to the boil, add in rice balls. Remove the rice balls with strainer when they have risen to the surface of the water.