Boiled muah chee (mochi)
Have you tried boiled muah chee (mochi) before? This recipe yields amazing soft and chewy muah chee that are topped with fragrant sweet peanuts. It's a real treat for any day of the week.
Servings: 3
Ingredients
- 240 g [2 cups] glutinous rice flour plus more for dusting
- ½ - ¾ cup water
- 1 cup toasted peanuts
- 1 tablespoon sugar
Caramelized sugar water
- ¼ cup sugar
- 4 cups of water
Instructions
- To make the peanut topping, blend toasted peanuts in a high-speed blender or food processor. For finer peanut powder, please use high-speed blender instead. Empty it into a bowl and season with a tablespoon of sugar.
- Measure 240g of glutinous rice flour in a large bowl. Add about 2-3 tablespoons of water to a portion of the flour. Knead it into a golf ball size dough, about 30g. Divide this into two to speed up the cooking process if needed.
- Now, fill a 1.5 qt pot with 2 cups of water and bring it to a boil. Drop the raw dough in the hot water and cook until it floats up or turns matte white.
- Using a sieve, scoop the cooked dough and transfer it back to the bowl with flour.
- Using your fingers, pinch the cooked dough while you knead it into the flour to mix. Gradually add the water and knead into a soft dough. Divide into 12-14 equal pieces.
- Rub your palms with glutinous rice flour. Take a dough and roll it into a ball, then pinch it into a circular disk. Now, pinch to seal the opening leaving an air pocket in the middle. This will create a softer and less dense muah chee. Repeat until all the dough is done.
- Next, make the sugar water. Heat a wok or tall skillet and add the sugar. Using a spatula, stir to melt the sugar until the color turns amber. Add the water and stir to combine, then bring the mixture to a boil until the sugar has dissolved.
- To cook the muah chee, dip it in a bowl of water to wash off the excess flour. This step will create a smoother outer layer.
- Slowly drop them into the sugar water. Cook all the muah chee until they puff up to 1.5x of the original size.
- To serve, sieve out the muah chee to a plate and top with the sweetened crushed peanuts. Reserve the sugar water for sweet soup or to make ginger sugar drink.
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Notes
- I toast my own peanuts using the red skin peanuts. Then, I removed the skin.
- Sugar is pure cane sugar