A Storm Is Here, So Here's A Colorful Glutinous Rice Balls Sweet Soup For A Stormy Weather

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22 October 2024

Rainy and cold. You would surely crave for something hot.

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Today, we woke up on a rainy morning with tropical cyclone Kristine hovering around, causing heavy rain and strong winds in different places, including our province. There were power interruptions, too, which made our lights like a Christmas light turning on and off. When the power got back, I took the opportunity to write this down before it turned off again. After many years, I have experienced a Philippine typhoon again, but I find it safer since I am at home.

In our younger years, we used to eat something hot during this kind of weather. Our mom would prepare champorado (chocolate porridge) or simple lugaw (plain rice porridge) for us. Sometimes, when we had a better budget, she would cook sopas (macaroni soup) with chicken, veggies, and creamy soup. Those are my favorite foods during stormy weather.

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And today, she made a simple recipe using only three main ingredients available at home. It has a sweet flavor, sticky texture, and thick soup consistency. This can be a kind of dessert that can be sold in the cold season and is the best food for a stormy day like today. I could truly hear the wooshing sound of the wind and heavy drops of rain from my room while writing this article. With my open windows, I can save electricity since I don't need to turn on my cooler. But you know the best thing to do today? Sleep underneath my blanket. That's perfect!

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Before that, let me share with you this simple, sweet recipe that is best for the cold season. I call it Colorful Glutinous Rice Balls Sweet Soup for this stormy weather.

Ingredients:
Rice flour
Milk (Evap or Fresh)
Sugar

This recipe only needs a few ingredients. But to make the sweet balls not too plain and boring to look, we used food colors. However, it is optional if you don't have them. As for the rice flour, you can simply grind some rice at home if you have a grinder or food processor, so you don't need to buy rice flour. By the way, we added some grounded sticky rice to make the flour mixture sticky and easily shaped it into balls.

Let's start the cooking.

The procedure is so easy. First, put the rice flour in a large bowl and gradually add enough hot water, then whisk until you form a dry dough. Afterward, we divided the dough into three unequal parts and added food colorings. We have green pandan, violet, and yellow mango flavor food colors. My mom was hesitant to use those food colors as the balls might taste bitter, but we insisted on putting some to make the balls colorful.

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Shape the rice dough into small balls.

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The next procedure is boiling water in a big pot. My mom added a few drops of green pandan food coloring to flavor the soup. I like the scent of pandan so much. It makes the food more enticing. It is one of my favorite local ingredients we like using when making Filipino delicacies.

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Once the water boils, carefully add the rice balls to the boiling water. You can also add evaporated or fresh milk, but I actually prefer coconut milk for this kind of recipe. However, we don't have one, so we only used evaporated milk, which also tastes good.

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Once the rice balls float, it indicates that they are already cooked. We also call this palitaw derived from the Filipino term litaw which means resurface, appear, or float. We waited for more minutes to cook the soup and the balls well before serving it. As simple as that, you already have a creamy and tasty sweet glutinous rice ball soup.

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The rice ball dough can also make other sweet Filipino soup delicacies and desserts. You can add some ingredients to this recipe, like sago or tapioca pearls, slices of bananas, and taro to make it flavorful. But since we don't have those ingredients, we made it as simple as it is: pure rice balls in a creamy-milky sweet soup. You can be as creative and resourceful as you are in the kitchen using glutinous rice balls as the main ingredient. In Hong Kong, we used to make ginger-sweet soup when cooking glutinous rice balls filled with black sesame paste on occasions like Chinese New Year. It is one of the popular traditional Chinese desserts in Hong Kong and China.

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That's it. You can try this simple recipe. For Filipinos in places affected by typhoon Kristine, stay safe and comfy!

Thanks for your time.


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I wondered about the taste of the Glutinous Rice Balls Sweet Soup; I'll try to cook this recipe when I get back to town. Thanks for sharing.

It's sweet and creamy hehe .
There are ready made rice balls filled with black sesame paste that can be bought in supermarkets,.. easy to cook..

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I miss this! My grandma used to make these glutinous rice balls when I was little, but hers is a different recipe. She only adds ginger and sugar to water and the rice balls. It tastes like "salabat" but very refreshing. I bet your recipe is soo good too!

Just heared about the typoon. It's flooding back home and the flood already went inside our house they said. Stay safe.

your grandma's version is similar to the Chinese traditional glutinous rice balls. It's healthier compare to this hehe.. I like the salabat flavor too...
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I love to taste it. Send some to my place.
It must be good in taste and I can say it by seeing the pictures.
By the way, I hope everyone is safe and sound in your family.
!PIZZA
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Yeah it tasted good.. and thanks, we are safe here.. I hope the typhoon will just fade in the air..
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Oh nice, like a twist version of lugaw!

parang bili-bilo hehe... !LADY

I hope all is well over there. Take care of yourselves and secure your windows and doors if you see the winds start.
The warmth of family and a colourful dish like that is great to get you through a stormy day.

Greetings!

The wind is still strong here at this moment, but there is no more rain. I hope it will be totally gone before tomorrow comes.
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Stay safe. It will pass. 😘

Looks delicious I know I've had something similar if not almost identical. Sweet and hot is a nice to have on a rainy day. If available to me on a cold day I'll have a decent size bowl of traditional soup than a much smaller dish of something like this. Looking foward to lunch today, flipino buffet day, hehe 😋

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wow.. then we'll see your Filipino foods later.. hehe
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Maybe in discord, hehe. Fall day here with a little rain nothing like what your facing stay safe friend

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Gusto KO Yan Pg may sweet potato pa. Minsan gunagawa din Kami dito. Bubur cha cha tawag nila😁.

Wow. I am surprised there is some delicacy like this aside my country. Rice dough? My first time hearing of it and food colors? Oh wow...so much to learn and experience from other cultures. This was nicely read and I enjoyed viewing the images with colorful food for the season.

so you have this kind of delicacy too? rice dough is just from rice flour hehe.. you can try this too, but it's yummier with coconut milk.
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There might be in some parts of my country but haven't. There are different ways rice is cooked and I am yet to explore some of them apart from the common ones. I know coconut rice is delicious 😋

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Wow looks delicious 😋

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So sorry to hear about the typhoon but I'm happy you are safer, it's this thypoon making many victims? 🥲 By the way the soup you shared looks perfect for a cold and rainy day, it's nice you also shared your childhood memories and dishes , I'm very curious about them. 😍

We also have colorful balls like this in Indonesia, except that the process is different using pumpkin or sweet potato of course with coconut milk sauce without milk.

This is so pretty, thanks for the beautiful recipe guys!. And I'm so sorry about the storm, hope everything gets better!.