Filipino desserts

Palitaw: Filipino Sweet Rice Cakes with Sesame

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Homemade palitaw rice cakes, chewy rice dumplings coated with coconut and sesame seeds.

What Is Palitaw? Ingredients You Need to Make Palitaw Are Palitaw and Pichi Pichi the Same? Palitaw Recipe More to Love from The Kitchn Common Questions If you’ve ever seen palitaw rice cakes at a Filipino potluck and thought, “What in the world are those chewy little cloud things?” Yup, been there. Honestly, I only …

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Easy Kutsinta (Steamed Brown Rice Cakes)

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Delicious kutsinta, a traditional Filipino steamed rice cake made with brown sugar and lye water.

Ingredients Steam steps Tips Story Accessibility Okay, so the other day I was searching for a truly doable kutsinta recipe easy style (my cousin kept nagging me for her favorite snack, bless her impatience) and honestly, most recipes looked like they’d need a full pantry re-stock. Nope—no thanks. You’re probably tired of over-complicated directions too, …

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