Awug
Thai dish with rice flour, coconut, granulated sugar.
- prep 9 min
- cook 21 min
- total 30 min
- serves 4
- intermediate
- Thailand
Ingredients
- 250 g rice flour
- 250 g coconut
- ½ tbsp granulated sugar
- ½ tsp salt
- 150 g palm sugar, thinly shaved
Steps
- Steam the rice flour for 20 minutes.
- Then, remove it from the steamer and set aside.
- Combine the steamed rice flour with the coconut, white sugar, and salt in a bowl.
- Stir until the mixture becomes uniformly crumbly.
- Prepare molds by greasing the insides with a little oil.
- Fill one mold halfway with the rice flour mixture.
- Add a thin layer of palm sugar, then fill the rest of the mold completely with the rice flour mixture.
- Repeat with the rest of the rice flour mixture, palm sugar, and molds.
- Preheat a steamer pot and basket over high heat so the water is boiling.
- Steam the awug-awug cakes over the boiling water for 25 minutes.
- Let the molds cool fully, then remove the cakes from the molds.
- Serve.
Adapted from “Awug”, Wikibooks Cookbook, CC BY-SA 4.0. This adaptation is shared under the same licence.