Soft & Squishy Red Bean Mochi
Warning: cook at your own risk! Cos' you won't get enough of this soft and squishy red bean mochi. It is an irresistibly chewy and sweet rice cake with a mouthwatering red bean paste in the center. Make this dessert with glutinous rice flour and my 3-ingredient red bean paste recipe.
- Prep time
- 20 min
- Cook time
- 30 min
- Yield
- 4 servings
- Difficulty
- MEDIUM
Ingredients
- 150 g glutinous rice flour
- 50 g corn starch
- 40 g white sugar
- 20 g corn oil
- 250 ml milk
- 20 g butter
- Red bean paste
- Coconut flakes or shredded coconut
Instructions
- 1
In a bowl, combine glutinous rice flour, corn starch, white sugar, corn oil, and milk.
- 2
Stir with a whisk until well mixed.
- 3
Sieve the mixture into another container and cover it with plastic wrap. Make holes in the plastic wrap.
- 4
Steam it for 20 minutes.
- 5
After steaming, add butter and knead the mixture thoroughly. Knead and stretch the dough. It should be strong enough not to break when stretched.
- 6
Take a small piece of the dough by squeezing it out from your thumb and forefinger, forming a small ball.
- 7
Make the dough into a flat circular wrapper, but still thick enough to hold the red bean paste.
- 8
Place the red bean paste in the center and wrap it by sealing the edges.
- 9
Coat it with coconut flakes or shredded coconut.