3-Colour Glutinous Rice Balls (Tang Yuan)

Ingredients:
1. Yam Glutinous Rice Ball (Purple)
100 gm glutinous rice flour
3 tsp tapioca flour
3 tsp fine sugar
120 gm mashed yam (steam for half an hour & mash it while it warm)
50 ml water a few drop of purple coloring

2. Pumpkin Glutinous Rice Ball (Orange)
100 gm glutinous rice flour
3 tsp tapioca flour
3 tsp fine sugar
120 gm mashed pumpkin (steam for half an hour & mash it)

3.Pandan Glutinous Rice Ball (Green)
100 gm glutinous rice flour
3 tsp tapioca flour
3 tsp fine sugar
6 pieces of pandan leave (pounded - add 100 ml of water to the pounded pandan leave and squeeze the green coloring out)

Sweet Coconut Milk (White-colour Soup):
2 coconut (add 6 bowls of water to squeeze out the milk) OR
500 ml of packet coconut milk (available from supermarket)
280 gm fine sugar
5 pieces of panadan leaves
1/2 tsp of salt

Method:
1. Prepare 6 bowls of water to boil, add in the pandan leave to get the fragrant.

2. Once you smell the pandan leave fragrant, remove pandan leave from the pot if not the water will taste bitter.

3. Once got the pandan leave fragrant, add in the sugar to boil then follows by the coconut milk, if its a packet kind, let it boil a while then off the fire. Prepare the dough for the Yam Glutinous rice ball.

4. Put 100 gm glutinous rice flour in a bowl, add 3 tsp tapioca flour and 3 tsp fine sugar mix them well, then add in the mashed yam. Until the yam are well blend with the glutinous rice mixture.

5. Make them into small balls, then cover the balls dun try it dry up. Then you can go & prepare the pumpkin & pandan glutinous rice ball. Repeat method 1 & 2 for Pumpkin & Pandan Glutinous Rice ball.

7. Prepare half a litre of boiling water in a pot, once water is boil, drop in some small balls into it, prepare a bowl of cold water, do not let the water overboil with bubbles.

8. Put in the balls, let it cook in the hot water, then put in cold water if you see bubbles, this is to retain the hot water temperature, do not let it overcooked the balls. If it overcooked, the ball will break, once the ball float up, scoop up and put in cold water for a while.

10. Soak a while then drain dry. Prepare sweet coconut milk in a 250 ml bowl then add the 3 colour-balls when served.