Potato balls {TWISTed recipe} aka Kelepon

Some people call it Kelepon or Klepon.  It is a traditional Indonesian snack.  It was my favorite snack and only few shops made good kelepon.
It is very hard to make, especially with the ‘traditional’ recipe (without potato) … my Kelepon uses a twisted recipe with potato.  It tastes better (I think) and the dough is easier to handle. One more, it is still moist the next day.

You’ll need:
2 pounds steam potato, mashed
250 gr Tapioca starch
1/4 t salt

7 T Pandan water
2 T Slaked Lime water

100 gr Palm Sugar, shred
1 C shred coconut, steam with 1/4 t salt

Directions:

• Boil water
• Mix by hand mashed potato, Tapioca starch and salt
• Add Pandan and Slaked Lime water
• Keep on mixing until the dough is mixed well
• Make a ball about 1 inch diameter, then flattened
• Put some Palm sugar and close the dough to form a ball
• Toss it into the boiling water
• Continue until you finish with all the dough
• The ball is ready when it floats.  Pick with fork and drain the water.  Try not to poke the ball like I did.
• Roll ball into shred coconut

Note: if you unable to fill the ball with palm sugar, just make balls.  Then mix the palm sugar with coconut.

Instead of filling the balls with liquid palm sugar, I drizzle the sugar over the balls.

photo credit: Vie | Bubblews