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Side Dish · Marshall Islands Recipe

Juk-Juk (Sticky Coconut and Rice Balls)

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Recipe

Ingredients

  • 4 cups rice
  • 7 cups water
  • 1 to 1 ½ cups sugar
  • Fresh coconut, finely grated

Directions

  1. In a rice cooker, put rice and water.
  2. Add sugar and stir. It should be really sweet.
  3. Let the rice cool and roll it into balls about ½ the size of a golf ball.
  4. Roll each ball in finely grated fresh coconut.