Glutinous Rice Balls with Coconut

Name: Glutinous Rice Balls with Coconut (Yeh szu nuo mi ch’iu)
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: ⅔ cup coconut flakes; 2 red cherries; 1-½ cups sweet bean paste; 2 tablespoons sugar; 1 tablespoon lard or shortening; 1 tablespoon lard or shortening; ½ cup boiling water; 3 tablespoons cornstarch; 2-½ cups glutinous rice powder

Yeh szu nuo mi ch’iu

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Pei-Mei’s Chinese Cookbook

By Fu Pei-Mei

Published 1969

About

Ingredients

2-½ cups glutinous rice powder
3 tablespoons cornstarch
½ cup

Asia
Taiwan
Dinner
Gluten-free

Method

Put the glutinous rice powder on a flour board. Make a hole in the center. Add sugar and lard.
Put the cornstarch in a bowl. Add boiling water. Mix with chopsticks. Pour into glutinous rice powder and knead together. If too hard, add some cold water to the dough and knead until very smooth and soft. (This is the skin).
Divide the sweet bean paste into