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Quick and Easy Muah Chee Recipe
Found at popular night markets, muah chee is a staple street food in Singapore. These bite-sized glutinous rice balls coated in peanut powder and sugar are a sweet treat for all. Here’s our take on how you can recreate this chewy and decadent snack at home with our very own muah chee recipe.
Meal: Snacks
Cuisines: Singaporean, Malaysian
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Yield: 4 servings
Ingredients
Toppings:
- 30g toasted white sesame seeds
- 125g roasted unsalted peanuts
- 50g granulated sugar
Dough:
- 120g glutinous rice flour
- ¼ tsp salt
- 1 tsp sugar
- 175ml water
- 1 tbsp cooking oil
Equipment
- 1 pan
- 1 blender
- 1 steamer
- 1 heat-proof bowl
- 1 spoon
Directions
Toppings:
- Toast the white sesame seeds on the pan until lightly golden brown.
- Add the roasted unsalted peanuts, sugar and toasted white sesame seeds into a blender.
- Blend the mixture to create a powder-like consistency and set aside.
Dough:
- Prepare the steamer with water and bring it to a boil.
- Combine the glutinous rice flour, salt, sugar, water, and cooking oil in a heat-proof bowl and mix to create a smooth liquid batter.
- Place the dough in the steamer, close the lid, and let it steam for 20 minutes.
- Take the dough out and immediately stir with a spoon.
- Once you’ve formed the dough, let it cool down for 10 minutes.
- Once cooled down, use the spoon to cut the dough into bite-sized pieces.
- Toss them in the peanut powder topping until fully coated, and serve.
Alternative cooking method
If you’d like to attempt this muah chee recipe but don’t have a steamer at home, fret not because we have an alternative method for you to prepare this treat! You can use a microwave—combine the ingredients, pop it in initially for three minutes, and follow up with one-minute intervals after and make sure to stir it in between.