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Red Bean Dumplings - Chinese dessert where red bean paste is wrapped inside sticky rice balls. Easy red bean dumplings recipe that you can try at home.
The recipes development, cooking, food styling and photography are pretty much done, and I am almost ready for recipes testing involving you—my loyal readers and fans.
I will be needing your help and will announce it on Rasa Malaysia in the next few weeks, including a sneak preview of the food photography (they are very different from what you see here and all shot with my professional camera, Canon 5D Mark II)! I am very excited and I hope you are, too.
Anyway, I have been cooking up a storm and working very hard on the cookbook since April. It has been fun, challenging, and a great learning process.
As a result of the recipes development, I have accumulated a lot of random ingredients in my refrigerator—leftover items used in the recipes, which I have to get rid of.
One of them is a can of red bean paste that had been sitting in the dark corner of my refrigerator for over a month! It kept well so I didn’t want to just toss it away.
I decided to clear the space finally and made it into red bean dumplings. I have to say that it was a great way to use up leftover red bean paste, for something sweet and pleasing…
Red bean dumpling (红豆汤圆) is a common dessert in Chinese cuisine (the other is black sesame dumplings).
The red bean paste is encased in sticky rice balls, boiled, and then served in ginger syrup. It’s a wonderfully refreshing dessert that anyone can make at home.
Traditionally, red bean paste is made from scratch, but the canned version is as good as it gets. You can find it at Chinese, Japanese, or Asian stores. If you like dumplings, do try out this red bean dumplings recipe!
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This recipe is only 66 calories per serving.
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Red Bean Dumplings
Ingredients
- 4 oz (125g) glutinous rice flour, sticky rice flour
- 100 ml water, 3 oz (90g)
- 3 oz (90g) canned red bean paste
- Water , for boiling the dumplings
Ginger Syrup
- 3 cups water
- 2- inch (5cm) fresh ginger, lightly pounded with the back of a cleaver
Instructions
- Mix the glutinous rice flour with the water in a bowl until it forms a smooth paste that no longer sticks to your hands. Divide the dough and red bean paste into 10 balls each. Gently roll the sticky rice balls and red bean paste into ball shapes using your palms.
- To wrap the dumplings, flatten a sticky rice ball using your palm and place a red bean ball in the center. Fold the edges to seal tightly, then gently roll the dumpling using your palms again to ensure there are no leaks. Place the dumplings on a piece of parchment paper.
- Prepare the ginger syrup by boiling the water. Add the ginger to the water and boil for 10-15 minutes over medium heat. Add rock sugar (to taste) and boil for an additional 5 minutes. Lower the heat to simmer.
- Heat another pot of water and bring it to a boil. Drop the dumplings into the boiling water. As soon as they float to the top, transfer them into the ginger syrup. Turn off the heat and serve the red bean dumplings immediately.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
is there a way to subsitute the ginger? there is a sensitivity for ginger for me and i would like to make it
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Hi Bee! Love your site and trying out the different recipes. Is there a particular brand of canned red bean paste that youโd recommend? Iโd like to know which one you used. Also do you ever make it yourself from scratch and is there a recipe for that? Thanks!
I don’t have any brand preference.