Deep-Fried Sweet Rice Balls

Name: Deep-Fried Sweet Rice Balls (Cha ta yuan hsiao)
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 1 cup sugar; 4 tablespoons black sesame seeds; ½ cup lard; 6 cups glutinous rice power

Cha ta yuan hsiao

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Pei-Mei’s Chinese Cookbook

By Fu Pei-Mei

Published 1969

About

Ingredients

4 tablespoons black sesame seeds
1 cup sugar
½ cup

Asia
Taiwan
Shantung
Starter
Gluten-free

Method

Grind the fried sesame seeds (without oil) into powder, and mix with sugar and lard in a bowl. Steam for 20 minutes. Remove and place into a square mold. Store in refrigerator, when mixture has solidified, cut into ½” cubes.
Pour 2 cups glutinous rice powder onto a large round tray. Put sesame balls in a strainer, dip briefly in water, then drop onto rice powde