Sugar-Free Sesame Ball – Air Fryer Chinese Jian Dui 气炸锅煎堆

🧂 Ingredients

• 80 g glutinous rice flour
• 1 tsp monk fruit sweetener

  or castor sugar
• ⅛ tsp salt
• 75 ml hot water
• 10 ml vegetable oil

  and some oil for brushing
• 2 tbsp white sesame seeds

  untoasted
• 150 g peanut filling or mung bean filling

Instructions

• 1 Mix the glutinous rice flour with salt and monk fruit sweetener (or sugar). Make
  a well in a centre and add hot water gradually in 2 separate parts.
• 2 Use a spatula to start mixing, the mixture will turn crumbly. Then add the
  second part of the water, it will start to form a crumbly sticky dough.
  
  Note: Add a bit more water if the dough is not forming, but not too much in case
  the dough will become too sticky.
• 3 When cool enough to handle the dough, use your hand to knead the dough.
• 4 Add 10ml vegetable oil gradually and knead into a soft, pliable, non-sticky and
  shiny dough. The dough should not break when you knead it.
  
  Note: If it’s too dry, add some water to the dough. If it’s too sticky, add some
  glutinous rice flour.
• 5 Cover with cling wrap and let them rest for 15 minutes. 
• 6 Roll 25g of filling and 25g of dough into balls. Cover with cling wrap.
• 7 To assemble the sesame balls, roll the dough into a ball, use the thumb to press
  the dough in the middle until it forms a ‘bowl’.
• 8 Add a portion of the peanut
  [https://www.beautifulvoyager.com/2-ingredient-peanut-paste-filling-for-ang-ku-kueh/]or
  mung bean filling [https://www.beautifulvoyager.com/mung-bean-paste-filling/]
  into the ‘bowl’. Wrap the dough around the filling and seal it well and make
  sure the dough ball is smooth with no cracks to prevent leakage during cooking.
  
  Note: If the dough turns dry when you wrap, apply a bit of water.
• 9 Roll the wrapped dough ball into a smooth ball.
• 10 Dab the assembled dough with some water. Coat it fully with the white sesame
  seeds.
• 11 Lightly brush the sesame balls all over with cooking oil.
• 12 Preheat air fryer at 150 degree celsius / 302 degree fahrenheit for 3 minutes.
• 13 Place the sesame balls into the air fryer, leaving 1-inch space in between each
  sesame ball.
  
  Note: The sesame balls will expand after air frying.
• 14 Air fry at 150 degree celsius for 12-15 minutes. Flip the sesame balls every 4-5
  minutes to ensure even cooking. The sesame balls are ready when they turn golden
  brown. 
  
  Note: If some sesame balls go out of shape in the air fryer, use a silicone tong
  to carefully shape it back again. Take notice if the sesame ball becomes too
  hard, it means it's overcooked.

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