Sesame Seed Pastries

Name: Sesame Seed Pastries
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: China
Ingredients: 40 g/1½ oz caster/superfine sugar; 15 ml/1 tbsp lard or white cooking fat; 40 g/1½ oz caster/superfine sugar; 60 ml/4 tbsp vegetable oil; pinch of fine salt; 15 ml/1 tbsp lard or white cooking fat; 175 g/6 oz sesame seeds; 115 g/4 oz/1 cup plain/all-purpose flour; 1 egg; 115 g/4 oz/1 cup plain/all-purpose flour

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

China

By Terry Tan

Published 2020

About

These sweet pastries with their sesame seed filling are more like pancakes, with a slightly savoury flavour to balance out the sugar. In Mandarin they are called ping, which can often refer to any small pastry.

Ingredients

115 g/4 oz/1 cup plain/all-purpose flour

Asia
China
Pastry
Vegetarian

Method

To make the filling, put the sesame seeds into a dry pan and stir over a medium heat for 8–9 minutes, or until pale golden. Grind the warm toasted seeds to a paste using a food processor, grinder or mortar and pestle, then add a few drops of water to make a stiff paste.
Heat the lard or white cooking fat in a wok over a medium heat, add the sugar and cook until