‘Bua Loy’(rice ball in sweetened coconut milk) is an original Thai dessert.
It’s easy to do and use ingredients we normally have in the kitchen and house garden.
Almost of Thai original dessert made of flour, coconut and sugar as you can see one of them here…
BuaLoy means floating lotus. The rice balls has lotus colour and it also means sweet, soft and tender.
Ingredients
Rice Ball 2 cups of glutinious rice flour
1 cup of tapioca flour
1 cup each of flaked pumpkins and taro
3 table spoons of squeezed dark indego
boiled water
Sweetened Coconut Milk 4 cups of squeezed coconut milk
1 cup of sugar cane
1/2 cup of palm sugar
1/2 teaspoon of salt
pandon leaf
Let’s do 1. mixing two kinds of flour with some boiled water until it becomes a dough
2. devide the big dough into 3 smaller doughs and mix each dough with pumpkins, taro and dark indego
3. roll it into small balls(around 1 cm. diameter) and boil until them ‘floating’. Then leave it ready to the next step
4. boil coconut milk with sugar cane and salt in low-medium heat together with pandon leaf. It will make the coconut milk fragantly.
stir regulary to prevent oily.
5. spoon into a dessert bowl, serve warm