Whenever you’re craving for a warm and sweet soupy dessert, try this Purple Corn Glutinous Rice Balls Dessert with lavender & sweet ginger tea created by @miss_polkadot
Recipe, pictures and video by @miss_polkadot
Makes approximately 25 rice balls
For filings:
Ground peanuts + sugar / peanut butter.
* For a healthier choice, use ground peanut without sugar.
Rice balls dough:
180 grams glutinous rice flour
170ml water + 1 teaspoon Antioxidant Peruvian Purple Corn 30:1 extract
👉🏼 Mix it to form a dough.
* If dough too dry, add water a little at a time until it’s pliable.
Sweet ginger tea:
Boil 750 ml water in a medium size pot, once it boils, add in ginger slices, a pinch of organic culinary lavender buds and a knot of pandan leaf.
Simmer for a while to let it release it’s fragrance. Off the heat.
Step 1
Take a pinch of dough, circle into round shape, make a well with thumb, fill in with ground peanut, covered dough and circle with both palms to form a round ball.
Set aside rice balls on a dusted flour tray.
Step 2
Boil sufficient water in a pot, drop each ball and let it boil until balls are floating to surface. Drain.
Step 3
Serve glutinous rice balls with warm ginger lavender tea. Add honey in each serving bowl. Enjoy!
The Star Ingredient
Antioxidant Peruvian Purple Corn 30:1 extract powder
- An all-rounder natural antioxidant that keeps your body’s free radicals in check, protects you from lifestyle diseases, so that you don’t need to worry about spending more on other antioxidants
- Natural high strength extract 30:1 (30kg of purple corn into 1 kg of extract powder)
- A spectacular ORAC value of 96,300 µmoleTE/100g!
- Helps to regulate blood pressure, cholesterol and more
- Get it here!