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Onde-onde (Ondeh-ondeh)

May 1, 2009 71 Comments
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Onde-onde (Ondeh-ondeh) recipe - These cute little pastries are infused with pandan (screwpine leaf) juice and filled with “Gula Melaka” or palm sugar and then rolled in with some fresh grated coconut. | rasamalaysia.com

Onde-onde (Ondeh-ondeh) recipe - These cute little pastries are infused with pandan (screwpine leaf) juice and filled with “Gula Melaka” or palm sugar and then rolled in with some fresh grated coconut. | rasamalaysia.com

Today, I would like to introduce another Malaysian blogger to you—Angie at Sea Salt with Food.

Based in Vancouver, BC, Sea Salt with Food is a fairly new site but it’s already packed full with many delicious and droolsome recipes.

Much like many Malaysians abroad, when we miss home, we cook Malaysian food furiously to ease our cravings.

Let’s welcome the talented Sea Salt with Food to Rasa Malaysia as she shares her onde-onde (ondeh-ondeh) recipe with us. Enjoy!

Onde-onde (Ondeh-ondeh) recipe - These cute little pastries are infused with pandan (screwpine leaf) juice and filled with “Gula Melaka” or palm sugar and then rolled in with some fresh grated coconut. | rasamalaysia.com

Onde-onde (Ondeh-ondeh)
Guest Writer: Sea Salt with Food

Recently I received an email from Rasa Malaysia to be her guest writer. Well, my first thought was, what a timely invitation. I was thinking to post something special to celebrate my 7-month old blog. Hence, this is a special post for Sea Salt with Food and being a guest writer on Rasa Malaysia!

Onde-onde (Ondeh-ondeh) recipe - These cute little pastries are infused with pandan (screwpine leaf) juice and filled with “Gula Melaka” or palm sugar and then rolled in with some fresh grated coconut. | rasamalaysia.com

Onde-Onde is one of the traditional kuih in Malaysia (kuih is term for Malaysian cakes, pastries if you will). They are either made from sweet potato or glutinous rice flour.

The cute little onde-onde–also spelled as ondeh-obdeh–are infused with pandan (screwpine leaf) juice and filled with “Gula Melaka” or palm sugar and then rolled in with some fresh grated coconut. The palm sugar that’s in it literally bursts in your mouth when you take a bite.

They are sweet and delicious.(You can learn more about onde-onde/ondeh-ondeh here.)

I hope you will try this onde-onde (ondeh-ondeh) recipe. They taste great!

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Onde-onde (Ondeh-ondeh) Recipe

Onde-onde (Ondeh-ondeh) recipe - These cute little pastries are infused with pandan (screwpine leaf) juice and filled with “Gula Melaka” or palm sugar and then rolled in with some fresh grated coconut. | rasamalaysia.com

Author Sea Salt with Food

Ingredients

  • 250 g Glutinous Rice Flour
  • 200 ml Pandan Juice
  • 150 g  Gula Melaka Palm Sugar, finely chopped
  • 100 g Grated Coconut
  • A Pinch Of Sea Salt

Instructions

  1. In a large bowl, combine the glutinous rice flour with Pandan juice and knead lightly. Pinch a small piece of the dough (about 40 g) and drop it into boiling water. When the dough rises up the surface, remove it with a slotted spoon and shake off the excess water. Mix it back into the main dough and knead well to form smooth dough. Cover the dough and set aside for about 15 minutes.
  2. Mix the grated coconut with a pinch of salt and steam for about 2 - 3 minutes and let it cool completely.
  3. Bring a pot of water to boil. Pinch a small piece of dough (about 15 g each) and flatten lightly. Fill the center of the dough with palm sugar. Roll them in your palm to form a smooth ball and cook the glutinous rice balls in the boiling water. When the rice balls float to the surface, remove them with a slotted spoon and shake off the excess water.
  4. Coat the rice balls with grated coconut and serve immediately.

Recipe Notes

To make the Pandan Juice. Blend 10 Pandan leaves with 220 ml water.

Note from Rasa Malaysia: Gula Melaka is available at AsianSupermarket365.com.

Note from Rasa Malaysia:

Gula Melaka is available at AsianSupermarket365.com.

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71 COMMENTS... read them below or add one

  1. wokstar

    May 1, 2009 at 8:36 PM

    I love this but I’m terrible with dough, sounds easy but I’ll be a big mess. You have a beautiful blob & photos. I don’t know how you ladies do it, congrats!

    Reply
  2. wokstar

    May 1, 2009 at 8:37 PM

    oops, sorry, just noticed I wrote ‘blob’ instead of ‘blog’.

    Reply
  3. Linda

    May 1, 2009 at 8:51 PM

    I’ve never tried this before.. but the sheer simplicity of the methods combined with minimal ingredients has placed this recipe on my to try list

    Reply
  4. John

    May 1, 2009 at 9:25 PM

    I have never tried these onde-onde before but they sure looks cute and I am sure they are very delicious.

    Reply
  5. Eve

    May 2, 2009 at 12:04 AM

    Where can I find freshly grated cocunut?

    Reply
    • Lynda

      May 16, 2017 at 4:09 PM

      Asian food market

      Reply
    • Carine

      December 24, 2017 at 7:11 AM

      Check the freezer section of your local Asian or Mexican market..

      Reply
  6. tigerfish

    May 2, 2009 at 2:11 AM

    Poostz! Oops, the onde-onde just burst in my mouth with the essence :D

    Reply
  7. Carol

    May 2, 2009 at 6:37 AM

    You are really amazing! Your blog is very impressive and I love to read your blog, browse through your great recipes.
    It happened that I also had a recipe of ondeh-ondeh, just to share with you. :)

    http://carollyl.co.cc/2008/08/14/美味家乡ondeh-ondeh/

    Reply
    • Suanne

      May 2, 2009 at 12:11 PM

      Hey, I just posted my recipe on Onde-Onde also. TODAY!
      http://chowtimes.com/2009/05/02/onde-onde/
      Suanne

      Reply
  8. lisaiscooking

    May 2, 2009 at 7:39 AM

    These are so pretty, and the coconut looks delicious!

    Reply
  9. Scott at Realepicurean

    May 2, 2009 at 2:54 PM

    I’d love to try them. A trip to the local Oriental Supermarket is in order, methinks!

    Reply
  10. Tuty

    May 2, 2009 at 9:00 PM

    Oh we call these “Kelepon” in Indonesian :-)

    We also have the chocolate variety of kelepon. Chocolate and palm sugar… yummy!!

    Reply
  11. Maya

    May 5, 2009 at 3:46 AM

    Ondeh ondeh everywhere!!!

    Reply
  12. Yoga

    May 5, 2009 at 5:25 AM

    i like the recipe given here…i mean i luv the food..

    Reply
  13. Grace F.

    May 5, 2009 at 12:44 PM

    These do sound good, but my husband doesn’t like coconut. Any ideas for a substitution?

    Reply
    • Lynda

      May 16, 2017 at 4:07 PM

      The balls are sticky when they are rdirst emoved from the boiling water but dry quickly, so you need to in roll them in something that will stick but not allow the moisture to soak through.

      Perhaps icing sugar, cocoa, castor sugar,
      a fine nut crumble.

      Reply
  14. tina

    May 5, 2009 at 7:50 PM

    wow…i luv the recipe and shots..looks perfect………..

    Reply
  15. eika

    May 17, 2009 at 8:02 AM

    its loke so delicious and i fell so hungry now

    Reply
  16. prasetya

    May 17, 2009 at 11:23 AM

    very interesting. Indonesians call this kelepon and onde-onde is another different things. In Indonesia, onde-onde refers to a fried ball with red bead paste filling and wrapped by sesame.

    Reply
    • Rasa Malaysia

      May 18, 2009 at 3:59 PM

      I’ve not heard of kelepon but I have heard some places Malaysia referring to the sesame ball you described as onde-onde.

      Reply
  17. Sze

    May 18, 2009 at 10:51 AM

    The best ondeh-ondeh I had have is from my kampung, sells by an old man during the Pasar Ramathan only,and it just cost 50 cents! but I think it is not easy to make ondeh-ondeh, especially when u wrap the gula melaka with the outer layer~
    Really miss this yummy yummy kuih! Thx for ur post! ^^

    Reply
  18. Sze

    May 18, 2009 at 10:58 AM

    One more thing, I’m living in bay area, near Berkeley,
    do u know where can I buy the pandan leaves??
    I need it to cook nasi lemak~

    Reply
    • Rasa Malaysia

      May 18, 2009 at 3:53 PM

      There’s a Ranch 99 in Cerritos, but I don’t think you can find it there. I am able to find them in Vietnamese grocery stores. But I don’t know any near Berkeley.

      Reply
  19. km

    May 26, 2009 at 3:15 PM

    i just made it! thanks for the recipe. though i wonder if you had any problems with the skin of the ball bursting as it boils?

    Reply
    • linghui

      February 5, 2010 at 11:00 PM

      I’ve tried making a couple of times. Boiling part of the dough till it floats is the key to prevent it from bursting. Reason behind that is because the boiled dough is suppose to act like an elastic wall that expands when you boil it. Another thing you can do is to keep the cover open and boil it over medium small fire, to prevent high pressure, hence bursting it.

      Reply
  20. ES

    June 23, 2009 at 8:35 AM

    Many traditional onde-onde recipes do not use gultinous rice flour but use mashed sweet potato with some tapioca flour. For the filling, alternatively one can use grated coconut lightly sweeten with gula melaka. This will reduce the overall GI of the onde-onde, suitable for diabetic. In the US, some called sweet potato, yam. Strange!

    Reply
    • Rasa Malaysia

      June 23, 2009 at 10:50 PM

      Thanks for the tips, yes, my aunt uses sweet potato with tapioca flour to make her onde-onde.

      Reply
  21. nyonya pendek melaka

    July 7, 2009 at 6:09 AM

    very nice! esp with lots of gula melaka inside.

    Reply
    • Rasa Malaysia

      July 7, 2009 at 11:07 PM

      Love your blog name. I am going to start a new “Nyonya Food” food blog, looking forward to learn more about Nyonya food in Melaka. :)

      Reply
  22. winnie ruan

    July 13, 2009 at 5:13 AM

    We love onde onde,but cannot get fresh coconut in china.beside what i use for granish.
    thanks,

    Reply
  23. rachel

    July 17, 2009 at 2:06 PM

    hi, we can’t get freshly grated coconut here in London unless we buy the old coconut and grate it ourself. is there any alternative? how about using dessicated coconut steamed with some coconut milk? or can we use frozen grated coconut? thanks.

    Reply
    • Tasha

      December 19, 2012 at 12:41 PM

      Rachel, this is a bit of a long time after your comment but I just wanted to let you know that you CAN get fresh grated coconut in London. At Earl’s Court on Hogarth Road there’s a filipino supermarket called Pinoy Supermarket and they sell freshly grated coconu at £2 a coconut. You have to ask the cashier as they grate it fresh.

      Good luck!

      Reply
  24. michelle

    August 19, 2009 at 4:34 PM

    anyone used brown sugar as a substitute? palm sugar is kind of hard to get here

    Reply
    • Lynda

      May 16, 2017 at 4:14 PM

      Yes. Very hard to form a ball and keep inside the dough until the ball is formed.

      Reply
  25. ILuvJuice

    August 23, 2009 at 4:47 AM

    Yum, yum, yum! I made these for my malaysian boyfriend and he loved them. They are so simple to make and so delicious.

    Reply
  26. ambar

    September 9, 2009 at 12:33 PM

    we, javanese people called onde-onde as kelepon based on the description in here. i thought we shared the same roots, but to be honest i am bit objected when someone called as malaysian desert. let’s say south east asian rather pointed the finger to specific country. historically most of our culinary heritage came from the same ingredients (gula jawa as gula melaka-they are same and compliment each other). beautiful photos & nice presentation.

    Reply
    • Rasa Malaysia

      September 9, 2009 at 8:45 PM

      I didn’t know about kelepon but agree we share the same root. I need to travel to Indonesia more to learn about Indonesian food. Thanks for your comment.

      Reply
  27. Joe

    September 24, 2009 at 1:25 AM

    I can’t get the pandan leaves here but i bought the pandan paste. How much water do I need for kneading the dough with the pandan paste? Thanks! :)

    Reply
  28. margeena

    April 24, 2010 at 9:12 AM

    Hi,

    I love your blog and onde2 especially. I’m wondering though what is the significance of putting that 40g of dough into the boiling water and then mixing it back again with the rest of the dough?? I’m gonna try and make these. Thanks! ~~

    Reply
    • Tailith

      September 4, 2011 at 7:48 PM

      I think it makes the dough easier to work with. Like making Yuen Xiao

      Reply
  29. Rushdi

    May 18, 2010 at 7:42 PM

    Thanks, I will try it. Anyway, your site looks great. Thank you for the generous tips and recipes!

    Reply
  30. Foodmania

    October 8, 2010 at 5:11 PM

    Hi,
    I just want to make five onde onde. The problem is that I cannot figure how to narrow it down. It doesn’t say here that how many balls you can make from this recipe, though :)

    How long does this process of making onde onde take?

    Thankyou!

    Reply
    • Lynda

      May 16, 2017 at 4:20 PM

      For me, 1 cup of flour equals 20 balls. Half a cup should make 10, therefore one quarter of a cup of flour should make 5 balls.

      Reply
  31. Iteng

    February 1, 2011 at 1:02 PM

    May I know how to make Pandan Juice?

    Reply
  32. vidya rana

    November 17, 2011 at 9:08 AM

    i like onde onde. i saw recipe in fox history then i m in love with onde onde. i m indian but its my frist exotic dish in my life.

    Reply
  33. Henri

    October 8, 2012 at 6:03 PM

    I am sorry. Onde-Onde is the real cake of Mojokerto City State East Java, Indonesia. So why you wrote it up as Malaysia Kuih? You should make it correct. Thanks

    Reply
    • Rasa Malaysia

      October 8, 2012 at 9:27 PM

      Hi Henri, this is the Malaysian version of onde-onde.

      Reply
      • Rangga

        August 4, 2015 at 6:57 AM

        The reciept is same with what Indonesian called it Kelepon.

        Reply
  34. NeeghuMohan

    February 25, 2013 at 7:22 PM

    My hubby loves ondeh ondeh. I sincerely tried it yesterday. Followed the recipe exactly but it was a disaster. I couldn’t form the ball shape the dough melted in my palm….why is it so?. Please help. Thank you.

    Reply
  35. Serena

    April 22, 2013 at 10:05 AM

    hi, this onde-onde looks so good. Never had it before but would like to try to make it real soon!!!
    One question: should these be served hot or cold (room temp). Does the grated coconut must be fresh or dry is also ok?

    Reply
  36. aipheng @ thetrishaw

    July 23, 2013 at 7:01 AM

    Heya, I love your blog and is always a go to for Malaysian recipes. I tried making onde onde before but it was a mess trying to stuff enough grated gula melaka in the middle and keep the dough thin. Do you have a tip? Also, is there a reason why a small dough is boiled and then kneaded into the raw dough?

    Reply
  37. Angeline

    August 10, 2013 at 9:11 PM

    i just made some with this recipe. the palm sugar i got was in large bars which i had to break into smaller pieces. the onde onde tasted like it should but the palm sugar did not dissolve.. so it was like a crunchy candy in the middle…. how do u get the palm sugar to “melt”?

    Reply
  38. Lisa

    February 28, 2014 at 10:32 AM

    Hi!
    I live in mid-West and cannot find Gula Melaka, even online. Can it be substituted by Gula Jawa (Indonesian)? I can buy this on Amazon easily.
    Also, is there an online grocery that sells fresh or frozen pandan leaves?
    Thank you

    Reply
    • Rasa Malaysia

      February 28, 2014 at 10:49 AM

      Yes.

      Reply
      • Lisa

        February 28, 2014 at 8:15 PM

        Thank you so much!
        As an ex-Singaporean, I really enjoy visiting your website.
        Thanks again

        Reply
  39. Raudha

    May 17, 2014 at 4:30 AM

    What is the preperation and cooking time?

    Reply
  40. Xinxuanc

    July 10, 2014 at 2:22 AM

    Don’t have to steam the palm sugar?

    Reply
  41. Angie Wheatley

    October 9, 2014 at 7:11 AM

    Will this recipe work if I used 100g of sweet potato flour and 10g of glutinous rice flour? I love the taste and texture of sweet potato in the recipe.

    Reply
    • Rasa Malaysia

      October 9, 2014 at 9:48 AM

      I am not sure…you should just follow the recipe exactly.

      Reply
  42. Carine

    December 24, 2017 at 7:07 AM

    I made this for a Christmas party with the help of my husband and a friend provided Gula Melaka (coconut sugar) she brought from Malaysia. It was gone in a few seconds after it was put out. Thanks for sharing the recipe. ? Everyone loves it.

    Reply
  43. Salina

    October 27, 2018 at 4:38 PM

    This recipe precise and works well。came out good.
    Thanks a lot for sharing.

    Reply
  44. Annie

    January 13, 2019 at 2:23 PM

    This recipe looks simple and does not require a lot of ingredients which I like! Will try to make it, May I know how to make pandan juice?

    Reply

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