Carioca Recipe

August 25, 2015 by pingskie 4 Comments

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How to make a perfect and crunchy sticky rice ball recipe.

Carioca. A delicious deep fried kakanin rice ball made from a few ingredients, skewer on a bamboo stick and serve with coconut sauce and toasted sesame seeds. This sweet and sticky glutinous rice ball is one of the famous street food, snacks here in the Philippines. The Carioca dough is a mixture of glutinous rice flour, sweetened desiccated coconut and coconut milk, then formed into a ball and deep fried until lightly brown. These sticky rice balls have a crunchy texture in the outside and soft and chewy on the inside. Carioca is served with this sweet coconut sauce that is made with dark or light brown sugar and coconut milk, boiled over low heat until becomes a syrup.

Makes : 45 pieces (15 skewers )

carioca 1

Ingredients:

For the sticky dough:

2 cups glutinous rice flour or sweet rice flour (+ extra 1/3 cup for dusting later on)
2¾ cups sweetened desiccated coconut
400ml (1 can) coconut milk

For deep frying:

2 cups (500ml) palm oil or vegetable oil

For the coconut sauce:

1 cup coconut milk
½ cup dark or light brown sugar

Carioca Recipe by Ping Desserts

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Cooking Procedure:

In a large mixing bowl, combine glutinous rice flour and sweetened desiccated coconut and mix well. Make a well in the center, add the coconut milk and mix with a wooden spoon until becomes soft sticky dough. Refrigerate the dough for about 20 minutes to make your dough firm. To make the balls, scoop about a tablespoon of dough and roll on your hands to make a ball. Arrange on a clean plate and repeat the process until you are done with all your carioca dough.

Dip each ball in a reserved 1/3 cup of glutinous rice flour and shake off extra flour (dust lightly as possible as you can). This process will help your carioca stay in shape after frying and will give you a crunchy texture on the exterior and protects the interior from drying. Repeat dusting until you’re done with all your carioca dough.

In a small frying pan, heat the oil over medium until tiny bubbles are visible. Drop carioca balls by batches at least 15 pieces at a time and don’t overcrowd your pan. Fry the carioca for about 5 minutes or until the color turns light brown . Using a tong and a bamboo skewer place 3 balls on each stick and place it on the plate lined with paper towel. Keep skewering until you’re done with your first 5 sticks. Reload your 2nd batch of carioca (another 15 balls) on a frying pan and repeat process until you’re done with the last batch then, set aside.

Let’s start making our coconut sauce, in a small saucepan, bring the coconut milk into a boil over medium heat. Add in light or dark brown sugar and mix well. When it starts to boil, adjust your heat to low and simmer the mixture until becomes syrup. Fire off, and let it cool slightly before using and at this point you can add some vanilla if you want.
Meanwhile, while our coconut sauce is cooling down, lightly toast your sesame seeds in a pan over low heat for about 2 minutes. To serve our Carioca, you can either drizzle or dipped in coconut syrup, then sprinkle with toasted sesame seeds on top and serve.

About pingskie

Hello, I'm Ping Joven welcome to Pinoy Desserts the home of Filipino Dessert Recipes, I love sweets and I love to share my goodies with my family and friends. I’ve spent so much time in our kitchen even though I don’t have formal cooking education, but I cook and bake a lot. I have a large collection of cookbooks. I love watching Foodnetwork Channel & YouTube cooking videos it helps me develop my skills. To my fellow home cooks and home-bakers we should keep doing what we love and enjoy being creative in the kitchen. I also love taking photos of my food but, I’m not a good photographer, so I just hope and pray that my food will make you hungry, so you won’t notice my bad composition LOL. And lastly, please have mercy on my poor writing skills, English subject has always giving me a headache and as I compose this bio I can feel a migraine starts to kick in LOL.

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Comments

Joey C Calaycay

January 11, 2016 at 5:54 am

wow!!! it beautiful and so delicious i like it and ill try it yummmieee,,,,?

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- pingskie
  
  January 15, 2016 at 11:31 am
  
  Hi Sir Joey, salamat sa pag visit and please try our carioca recipe masarap po ito at madaling gawin perfect pang meryienda 🙂
  
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Emma

November 29, 2017 at 2:09 am

Ping, You are a genius and natural when it comes to kakanin. I tried the carioca and it was excellent-eee!

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- pingskie
  
  January 5, 2018 at 8:28 am
  
  Thanks Em, i’m glad u tried and liked it 🙂
  
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