Ondeh Ondeh Keledek (Sweet Potato Balls)

Ingredients:

• 600g sweet potatoes, boil in water to which 2 fragrant screwpine leaves have been added, peel then mash while still warm
• 4 fragrant screwpine leaves (daun pandan), pound to extract juice
• 4 heaped tbsp plain flour
• 1 block palm sugar (gula Melaka), cut into little slivers
• 230g grated coconut, (remove skin) steam with a little salt to prevent the coconut from going sour

Method:

• Squeeze juice from crushed pandan leaves into mashed sweet potatoes. Add flour and a pinch of salt and mix. Take a small lump of dough, flatten it, put a few slivers of gula Melaka in the middle and roll into a ball. Repeat till all the dough is used up.
• Boil a pan of water. Drop sweet potato balls into boiling water.
• Remove when they rise to the surface, drain and roll in steamed coconut.