Nam Wan Bua Loi | Rice Ball Coconut Milk Dessert
Nam wan is a Lao coconut dessert typically made with sweetened coconut milk, coconut juice, and fresh fruits. Bua loi is a type of nam wan featuring chewy balls of sticky rice floating in the coconut milk, making it a refreshing summer treat.
- Prep time
- 30 min
- Cook time
- 10 min
- Yield
- 4 servings
- Difficulty
- HARD
Ingredients
Quantities are shown as originally provided.
- 2-½ cups glutinous rice flour, divided
- 2-½ cups water, divided
- ½ cup red dragon fruit, cubed
- 20g minced pandan leaves
- ⅓ cup cubed purple yam
- ⅓ cup cubed orange yam
- 2 tbsp dry Butterfly pea flower
- 13.5 fl oz coconut milk
- 13.5 fl oz water
- 11.1 fl oz coconut water
- ⅓ cup Sugar
- Pinch of Salt
- 1 pandan leave
Instructions
- 1
Divide the rice flour into ½ cup into five separate bowls and do the same with the water.
- 2
In a small food processor, blend the dragon fruit with one of the divided waters then sieve and save the water. Repeat it with the pandan leaves.
- 3
In a small bowl, smash the purple jam into a paste. Do the same with the orange yam.
- 4
In a small bowl, add the butterfly pea flowers and ½ cup boiling hot water and steep for three minutes then strain.
- 5
Take one of the divided rice flour bowls and add ½ cup of the dragon fruit liquids then mix it well until a playdough soft dough forms. Do the same with the pandan leave liquid and then the butterfly pea tea.
- 6
Take another of the rice flour bowls and add the mashed purple yam and divided water then mix until dough forms. Do the same with the orange yam.
- 7
With each ball of dough, roll it into boba size balls and coat it around extra rice flour.
- 8
In a medium pot, add the coconut milk, coconut water, 13.5 fl oz water, coconut water, sugar, salt, salt, and pandan leaf, then place it on low heat until a gently simmer then take it off the heat.
- 9
In a large pot of boiling water, add the balls and cook until all the balls float then strain and place the balls in the sweetened coconut milk mixture.
- 10
Ladle desired amount and add ice to cool then enjoy.