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Red bean paste rice cake or pan fried mochi is a classic Cantonese snack or street food in Hong Kong. Also, it’s one of my favorite childhood snacks. If you like mochi, you should try out this simple and delicious sweet red bean glutinous sticky rice cake recipe too!

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pan fried sticky rice cake with red bean paste or red bean glutinous rice cake

What is red bean paste rice cake?

This red bean glutinous rice cake recipe is a classic Hong Kong snack or street food. Also, it’s one of my favorite childhood snacks. Besides, this pan fried mochi with red bean paste called dou sa siu beng (豆沙燒餅) in Cantonese.

Sticky rice cake is made of glutinous rice flour with a sweet filling. Most people like to use red bean paste, peanut butter or black sesame paste as the filling. It’s a kind of mochi. However, this pan fried mochi recipe is slightly different because the sticky rice cake is pan fried.

What are the ingredients for red bean glutinous rice cake?

The ingredients are glutinous rice flour, sugar, hot water, vegetable oil and red bean paste.

Cooking tips for how to make sticky rice cake with red bean paste:

Add glutinous rice flour and sugar into a bowl and mix it well. Then, pour the hot boiling water into the flour mixture. Be careful the dough is very hot. Use a spoon to stir and mix the dough until the dough is not too hot, but it is ok to use your hands to knead the dough. Remember to knead the dough while it’s still hot/warm.
And, use the back of your fingers to knead the dough. Or, dip some oil on your hand or fingers when you knead the dough.)
If you still have a hard time handling the sticky dough, try to use 7 tablespoons of hot boiling water instead.
When you knead the dough, it’s a little bit sticky. Don’t worry about adding extra flour. Adding vegetable oil will help. Separate 2 times and pour the oil into the dough. Continue to knead the dough until it’s not sticky.
Use your palms to flatten the flour dough and use fingers to flatten the sides. Make sure the middle of the dough is thicker.
Put the filling, fold the dough and roll into a ball. Use the palm slightly to press the ball. Remember don’t flatten too much because the filling will come out.
Spray some oil and turn on a small/low fire. Pan fry both sides and cover with the lid for 5 minutes each side.

FAQs:

Can I refrigerate the red bean sticky rice cake?

I don’t recommend it because it will be hard. If you refrigerate them, you can warm up in the microwave cover with a wet paper towel. It's best to consume it within a day or two. You can keep them out for a couple days and cover with a plastic wrap or zip lock bag.

How to make red bean paste?

See the details and instructions on how to make red bean paste in this post. However, you can also purchase red bean paste at Asian stores.

Instructions for how to make Chinese red bean paste rice cake:

Dough:

Put 1 cup of glutinous rice flour into the bowl.

sugar added into the glutinous rice flour in the bowl

2. Then, add 1.5 tablespoons of sugar into the flour and mix it well.

3. Pour ½ cup of hot boiling water into the flour mixture. Mix the flour with a spoon. (Be careful when pouring the hot water.) The dough is hot, keep mixing with a spoon until it is not too hot and you can use your hand to knead the dough. (If you still have a hard time handling the sticky dough, try to use 7 tablespoons of hot boiling water instead.)

4. The dough is a little bit sticky and don't worry about adding extra flour. (Remember to knead the dough while it’s still hot/warm. And, use the back of your fingers to knead the dough. Or, dip some oil on your hand or fingers when you knead the dough.)

vegetable oil added into the flour dough

5. After that, pour 1 tablespoon of vegetable oil into the dough and continue to knead the dough until it's not sticky. (I like to separate 2 times by pouring the oil. Therefore, I add ½ tablespoon of vegetable oil at a time and continue to knead the dough.)

6. Next, roll the dough into elongated shape.

7. Roughly divide the dough into 6 pieces.

8. Roll the pieces into 6 balls.

Filing:

9. Scoop a tablespoon full of red bean paste and roll it into a ball. Repeat this step and roll 6 red bean paste balls.

press and flatten the glutinous rice flour dough

10. Use your palm to press and flatten the flour dough.

red bean paste filling on the flattened flour dough

Combine:

11. Then, use fingers to flatten the side. Make sure the middle of the dough is thicker than the side. And, place the red bean paste filling in the middle of the dough.

fold the dough with the red bean paste filling into a ball

12. Fold and roll the dough with red bean paste filling into a ball. Repeat and finish 6 of them.

pressed 6 red bean glutinous rice cake sticky rice cake doughs with filling

13. After, use your palm to press the dough with filling slightly.

pan fried 6 sticky rice cakes or mochi in the non stick pan

Cooking:

14. Spray some oil into the non-stick pan and turn on small/ low fire. Pan fry both sides of the sticky rice cake with red bean paste. Cover the lid for 5 minutes. Then, flip the other side pan fry and cover the lid for another 5 minutes.

Enjoy this classic Cantonese pan fried mochi or red bean glutinous rice cake recipe! Also, check out these chocolate strawberries, Asian shaved ice, taro ice cream, almond jello, tofu pudding and ginger milk curd recipes.