Dishes made with grated coconut
6 dishes from around the world that list grated coconut as a main ingredient.
Puto bumbóngVegetarian
🇵🇭 PhilippinesPurple Filipino rice cake steamed in bamboo tubes for Christmas
Sweet or dessert, Breakfast, Snacks
Chocolate ballVegetarianchokladboll
🇸🇪 SwedenSwedish and Danish no-bake sweet made from oats, cocoa, and butter, rolled in coconut
Pie or savoury pastry, Snacks
BibingkaVegetarian
🇵🇭 Philippines and 1 moreBaked rice cake cooked in banana leaves, often enjoyed warm at Christmas
Sweet or dessert, Breakfast, Snacks
Onde-ondeVegan
🇮🇩 Indonesia and 3 moreSweet rice flour balls with palm sugar and coconut, common in Southeast Asia
Sweet or dessert, Snacks
KozhukattaVegetarianകൊഴുക്കട്ട (Malayalam), கொழுகட்டை (Tamil)
🇮🇳 India and 1 moreSteamed rice flour dumplings filled with sweet coconut and jaggery
Sweet or dessert, Breakfast, Snacks
Kuih粿 / کوءيه / kue
🇲🇾 Malaysia and 5 moreBite-sized sweet or savoury snacks made from rice or glutinous rice flour
Pie or savoury pastry, Snacks
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Bibingka: Sabilal Rusadi, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Puto bumbóng: Judgefloro, CC0, source
- Chocolate ball: No machine-readable author provided. Stefan w~commonswiki assumed (bas, CC BY 2.5, source
- Onde-onde: Yun Huang Yong, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Kozhukatta: Jayashree Govindarajan, CC BY 2.0, source
- Kuih: Gunawan Kartapranata, CC BY-SA 3.0, source