Glutinous Rice Cake with Red Bean Paste . 豆沙燒餅

Glutinous Rice Cake with Red Bean Paste . 豆沙燒餅 

 

I love everything made of glutinous rice, like the smell and its chewiness, and red bean paste is always a good match to it.

Glutinous Rice Cake with Red Bean Paste is very easy to make and almost zero-failure. 

I talked to my helper my recipe; she made it successfully within an hour.  Do you think it is easy?

我愛吃各式糯米食品，愛那糯米香和軟糯得來帶嚼勁的口感，而且紅豆餡和糯米更是絕配。

其中紅豆燒餅更是沒難度，可說零失敗。 我口頭給家傭小姐說出我的食譜，一個小時內豆沙燒餅已經做好，送到我面前。 你覺得這算容易做嗎？

Glutinous Rice Cake with Red Bean Paste 

Ingredients:

Glutinous Rice Flour 150g

Maltose 35g

Boiling Water 80g

Oil 30g

Salt   a pinch

Red Bean Filling: (I used to make a big portion and divided it into small packs and kept them in the freezer, so I have homemade red bean puree when needed)
Red Bean 600g
Water 2500ml
Sugar 130g

 Preparing the filling:
- Clean and soak red bean overnight or at least 4 hours, Add beans and 2500ml water in a pressure cooker and cook for 20 minutes，turn off fire and let stand for 30 minutes, and then pressure cook for another 20 minutes, turn off fire and let stand for 30 minutes again; OR boil in normal pot for one hour, stand for one hour, and then cook for another hour and stand for one more hour again
- Add softened beans and sugar to a food processor and blend till fine and sieve. If a strong blender is used, no sieving need. 

- Keep in the fridge for an hour; then divide it into portions of 30g each, slightly rounded; and keep the rest in the fridge for other recipes. You may cook only 200g red beans for this recipe

Method:

1. Heat up a pot of hot water till boiling hot

2. Sift glutinous rice flour into a big bowl, add in maltose, boiling water, salt and oil, mix in all the ingredients with a pair of long chopsticks, till flaky, then bring it into a dough, and knead it till soft and shiny, and let rest till cool 

3. Divide the dough into 12 pieces, approx 24g each

4. Cut a small zipper bag open from one side to make two pages, put one small dough piece on one side of a page, then cover with the page, press the dough down using your palm and slightly twist to make it round; then press the edge thin by moving the finger tips or palm around

5. Place one portion of the filling onto the circle (4) and seal the edges to the center and slightly round it, then press it flat using your palm and slightly turn your palm to the right to make a round cake; do the same for the remaining

6. Heat up a frying pan with a little oil over medium heat and give a little shake or a swirl to the pan, put the cakes onto the pan one by one, then reduce heat to medium-low, cook until golden on the bottom, about 4 minutes. Flip and cook until golden on the other side, about 2-3 more minutes. Serve hot.

Cooking Tips:

1. For Glutinous Rice Cake, use hot water is fine as the best texture of cake should be soft and a little chewy, not too chewy. That's why I do not use boiled dough method for this recipe.
2. Maltose could keep glutinous rice flour dough from hardening, so cakes would not be hardened at room temperature
3. Glutinous Rice Cake tastes marvellously when the two sides are fried till golden with a little burnt.
4. The Red Bean Filling of this recipe is mild sweet, you could add or reduce sugar to your taste

豆沙燒餅

材料： 

糯米粉 150 g
麥芽糖，先溶 35 g
大熱水  80g
油 30 g
鹽 少許

紅豆餡：(大份量，多做可分小包裝放冰庫，隨時取用)

紅豆 600g
水  2500ml
黃糖  130g

準備紅豆餡：(家中常備，預先做好)
- 紅豆洗淨浸泡過夜或最少4小時，用壓力鍋加入2500ml 煮20分鐘 ，熄火焗30分鐘，再煮20分鐘 ，熄火焗30分鐘 或 用一般煮鍋煮一小時，熄火焗一小時，再煮一小時，熄火焗一小時
- 取出豆加入糖用攪拌器攪拌成泥狀，過篩；如用特強攪拌器，也是加糖攪拌，不需過篩也夠滑

- 盛起紅豆餡放冰箱一小時; 然後分成約 30 g 一份，略整圓；其餘放冰箱備用。如做一份，可煮200g 紅豆

做法：

1. 燒一鍋水至大熱
2. 將糯米粉過篩，倒入大碗中，加入麥芽糖、大熱開水、鹽和油，用一雙長筷子拌勻，直至絮片狀，再把粉搓成柔軟有光澤粉糰，蓋上布，待至全涼
3.將粉糰分成 12 塊 ，每塊約24g，揉圓
4.把小號保鮮膠袋從一側剪開如兩頁面，在下方的一頁，放上一粉糰，把另一頁蓋在上，用手掌隔頁面按住麵團，稍微轉動輾薄成圓片; 然後用指尖或手掌跟按壓圓邊，成中心略厚周邊略薄
5. 打開頁面，把一份餡料放在圓粉糰片（4）上，四周歸中心收口，然後用手掌輕力壓扁圓球，向右旋轉下即成圓餅狀; 繼續用相同步驟把其餘粉糰做成餅形
6. 煎鍋加少許油中火燒熱，搖鍋讓油均勻蓋鍋面，把餅逐一放入，轉中慢火，煎至底部金黃帶微焦，約 4 分鐘，翻轉另一面，同樣煎至底部金黃帶微焦，約2-3分鐘。趁熱享用。

提示：：
1. 好吃的燒餅，口感應該軟糯略帶嚼勁(煙韌)，但不應大有耐嚼，所以不需用全熟粉糰，用大熱水開粉已足夠。
2. 麥芽糖可保持糯米粉糰不易變硬，適合天氣下可放室溫保存
3. 豆沙燒餅兩面煎至金黃色略帶微焦，最好吃
4. 此食譜紅豆餡是微甜，可根據個人加減糖份