Laughing Sesame Cookies and Sesame Balls
Celebrate the snack aspect of traditional Chinese New Year this with the easy to make, sesame cookies and balls.
Ingredients
Laughing Sesame Cookies
- 225 g Cake Flour
- 80 g White Sesame
- 1 Egg
- 90 g Sugar
- ½ tsp Baking Powder
- ¼ tsp Baking Soda
- 2 tbsp Water
- 2 tsp Oil
Sesame Balls
- 195 g Glutinous Rice Flour
- 1.5 g Baking SOda
- 80 g White Sesame
- 45 g Sugar
- 157 g Water
- 2 tsp Oil
Instructions
Laughing Sesame Balls
- Soak sesame in water for 15 mins, drain and set aside.
- Sift cake flour, baking powder and baking soda into a big bowl.
- In another bowl, beat egg and mix well with sugar until dissolved.
- Add cooking oil into the egg mix, whisk well.
- Gradually add water into the egg batter.
- Create a space in the middle of the powdery ingredients, add the egg batter in, slowly knead into a soft dough.
- You can add in a little bit of water if the dough gets too try as to you knead it.
- If the dough gets too sticky, then you can add in a little bit of flour.
- Rest the dough for 30 mins.
- Roll and cut the dough into like a thumb size, the piece should be cut into similar sizes so the cooking time is consistent.
- Roll it into a ball using the centre part of your palms.
- Dip each ball into the sesame ball, roll again using the centre part of your palms, so the sesame sticks on to the ball better.
- Heat up oil to 150°C.
- Deep fry in low heat for 10 mins, stir them often to make sure they are cooked evenly.
- Turn to high heat for 1 min.
- It’s done when they turn golden brown!.
Sesame Balls
- Add sugar and water into a pot, bring to boil.
- Once boiled, add half of the flour into the pot, stir well, remove pot from heat.
- Add cooking oil into the dough.
- Add in remaining flour, baking soda and a little bit of water.
- Knead into a dough and rest it for 30 mins.
- Roll and cut the dough into 25g per pieces.
- Roll it into a ball using the centre part of your palms.
- Dip each ball into the sesame ball, roll again using the centre part of your palms, so the sesame sticks on to the ball betterHeat up oil to 150°C.
- Deep fry in lowest heat possible for 10 mins, stir them often to make sure they are cooked evenly.
- As the balls float onto surface, use the back of a spatula to gently press the balls against the side of saucepan. Continue applying pressure as the balls turn golden brown and expand to approx 2-3 times their normal size.
- Turn up to high heat and continue to deep dry for 1 min.