Coconut and Jasmine Rice Cakes

To fulfill your need for a twist at an exotic dish with ingredients that are easily available, we bring you these Japanese-style rice cakes. 

This dessert, with its magical sweetness is enough to lure your taste buds! 

WHAT YOU NEED

• 1 1⁄2 cups Jasmine Rice 

• 2 tbsp Stevia 

• 1⁄2 tsp Pink Salt 

• 1⁄4 cup whole peanuts

• 2 tbsp White Sesame Seeds

• 1⁄2 cup brown sugar 

• 1 cup fresh shredded coconut

• 2 tbsp finely grated ginger

HOW TO MAKE 

• Add the flour in a large bowl with sugar, salt, and lukewarm water making a dough.  

• Take a saucepan and toast the peanuts until medium brown. 

• Grind the toasted peanuts. 

• Now toast the white sesame seeds with sugars and water bringing to a boil. 

• Add the grounded peanuts, coconut and ginger until it gets thick and keep aside.  

• Take a lump of dough and roll it into a ball. Flatten the dough with hand and add 2 spoons of filling in it. 

• Wrap the dough around it. 

• Arrange the rice cakes on a sheet of foil paper. 

• Add 2 cups of water in a cooking pot. Arrange the foil sheets with rice cakes in it over any metallic utensil.

• Cover the rice cakes and let them steam. 

• Serve hot. 

You can add different colors to the dough to make these rice cakes even more vibrant, and bring out the foodie in you with these Japanese-style rice cakes!