Cenil

Cenil, also called cendil or cetil, is a traditional Javanese snack made from tapioca dough and sugar. The dough is usually tinted with food colouring in green, yellow, red, pink or brown, cut or shaped into small balls or cubes, and rolled in grated coconut before being eaten. Recipes mix tapioca flour with rice flour, then colour and steam the dough, and season it with salt and sugar; liquid palm sugar is sometimes poured over the top. The snack is associated especially with Pacitan in East Java and is sold in traditional markets in Central Java and Yogyakarta, where it is called cetil, alongside other Javanese market snacks such as klepon, getuk and kicak. In the 1990s it was mostly found only in markets held on the Javanese pasaran days. The name comes from a Javanese word for something small, cute and coquettish, a reference to its small colourful pieces. It appears in the Serat Centhini manuscript dated 1814.