Bua Loy - Pumpkin Thailand Dessert

5 from 1 vote

Bua Loy is a Thailand dessert made of pumpkin. It can brighten up your Halloween party. Not only it is pretty but also delicious!

Prep Time30

Cook Time20

Total Time50

Course: Dessert, Desserts, Snack

Cuisine: Asian, Thailand

Servings: portions

Calories: 111kcal

Author: Claudia

Mix pumpkin puree with glutinous rice flour, tapioca flour, and salt. Stir well and knead with your hands until it is no longer sticky and can be shaped.
Take a little dough and add green coloring. Set aside. This is for the pumpkin stem.
Now, for the yellow dough, take some and shape it round like a pumpkin. Continue until all yellow dough is finished.
Line them up. Start using a thread to create the pattern for pumpkin. Set aside.
Take the green dough by a pinch and shape it into a small stem. Put it in the center of the pumpkin-shaped dough, the pointy part facing upward.
Boil water in a pot. Prepare a bowl of cold water.
Put the pumpkin into the boiling water. Cook until it floats.
When it floats, take them out and transfer to the cold water. Let it soak in the cold water for a while.

Pour coconut milk, water, sugar, salt, and pandan leaves together in a pot. Stir well. Cook with low heat until it simmers.
Arrange the pumpkin in a bowl. Add some pearl sago if you like. Pour in the coconut milk sauce. Enjoy!

If you want to change the pumpkin to other ingredients like purple yam or sweet potato, you need to adjust the water. Purple yam has less water than pumpkin, so you might need more water to reach the same consistency as with pumpkin.
Taste-test the coconut milk, adjust the sugar according to your preference.
You can shape the dough into small, round balls, just like Bua Loy in Thailand. To make it more attractive, add other colored ingredients such as pandan extract, sweet potato, or purple yam.
Remember to stir the dough gently while cooking, so the shaped dough stay intact.