Vegetarian Recipes
Vegetarian Recipes

SESAME PUMPKIN BALLS


Ingredients:

  • 1 ½ pumpkins (about 900 g)
  • Moderate amount of white sesame seeds (uncooked)
  • 1 package/can sweet red bean paste (about 600 g)
  • 1 package glutinous rice powder (about 600 g)
  • All-purpose flour and water

Directions:

  • Clean the pumpkin and remove all the seeds. Leave skin on and steam until soft. (Put ½ cup water with the pumpkin in the inner pot of the rice cooker and 1 cup water in the outer pot.)
  • Remove skin from the pumpkin when it has cooled. Mash the pumpkin into a pulp. 
  • Mix pumpkin pulp with glutinous rice powder until the mixture does not stick to your hands. Divide into 3-gram portions and set aside.
  • Shape sweet red bean paste into balls and set aside.
  • Mix flour and water to form a paste. Make enough to coat each of the balls.
  • Coat each red bean paste ball with the pumpkin mixture and shape into a ball. First dip the balls in flour water paste, then roll in white sesame seeds to coat.
  • Fry in oil at low heat until the sesame pumpkin balls float onto the surface and turn golden brown. Remove and serve.