Hey everyone, it is Jim, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, sweet coconut dumplings. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Sweet Coconut Dumplings is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals on earth. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions daily. Sweet Coconut Dumplings is something which I have loved my whole life. They are fine and they look fantastic.

To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook sweet coconut dumplings using 11 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Sweet Coconut Dumplings:

1. Get 1 cup Glutinous Rice Flour
2. Make ready 1/2 cup Rice Flour
3. Make ready 2 tablespoon Caster Sugar
4. Take 1 pinch Salt
5. Take 3/4 cup Warm Water *approximately
6. Prepare Desiccated Coconut for coating
7. Get <Filling Suggestions>
8. Take ‘Tsubu-an’ (Sweet ‘Azuki’ Red Bean Paste)
9. Prepare Firm Custard
10. Prepare My ‘Butter Bean Spreads’ See https://cookpad.com/uk/recipes/6453428-butter-bean-spreads?via=sidebar-recipes
11. Take Sweetened Crunchy Peanut Butter

Steps to make Sweet Coconut Dumplings:

1. Prepare the filling. This time I used ‘Tsubu-an’ (Sweet ‘Azuki’ Red Bean Paste). Firm Custard is another very popular filling. Soft fillings are difficult to wrap with the dough. I recommend to make the filling into 16 balls, 2cm in size, and FREEZE them until hard enough to handle.
2. Place Glutinous Rice Flour, Rice Flour, Caster Sugar and Salt in a large bowl, stir to combine. Add Warm Water to the flour, mix and knead to achieve the firmness of dough same as firmness of your earlobe. (*This is traditionally taught.) Add extra water or extra flour to achieve this.
3. Divide the dough into 16 portions. Flatten one portion of the dough on your hand and place one ball of filling in centre and draw the edges up to enclose. Repeat with the remaining dough and filling.
4. Pour water into a steamer pan and bring to the boil over high heat. Line the bottom of the steamer with baking paper, place dumplings on the baking paper, cover with lid and steam for 10 minutes.
5. Place some Desiccated Coconut on a plate, roll cooked hot dumplings to coat with the Coconut.
6. Repeat with remaining dumplings. Serve warm.

How to Improve Your Mood with Food

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See, you don’t need to stuff your face with junk food when you wish to feel better! Try these suggestions instead!