Let's Make Deep Fried Sesame Balls! ♥ Nutella & Red Bean #loveasianfood

Hey guys, it's Angel. So today we're going to be making sesame balls, also known as zimacho. I'm going to show you guys how to make it two ways. The first way is the traditional style with red bean inside and then the other way is with Nutella. We're gonna have this Nutella filling. It's gonna be delicious and I tried it yesterday and it was oh so good. So if you guys are interested, keep watching. All right, let's start by making the dough. I'm going to need some boiling water, so let's boil some water first. And while that's boiling, I'll show you what we have over here. We'll need a bowl for the dough and we'll need 1 cup of glutinous rice flour. Now glutinous rice flour looks like this and I'm using this Thailand brand with the green bag. You can find this at your local Asian grocery store. If not, I'll post the link in the video description. So I will go ahead and take 1 cup and I've sifted this and put that directly into my mixing bowl. Next, we'll need 3 tablespoons of cane sugar and I'll just put the cane sugar kind of in the center. The water is boiled and I will want to measure out half a cup of water. Be really exact because this will help with getting the right consistency of your dough. You want to use hot water in here when you're mixing up the dough and that will help it give it that kind of like gelatinous and chewy puffiness when we deep-fry the sesame balls. Give that a stir. And once this is mixed in, if you feel like it's a bit too dry, you can always add a bit more hot water. Just a tiny bit at a time. And that looks like a good consistency right there. Not too sticky and not too dry. Now I want to form the dough into a ball. Okay, now I'm just going to let this sit in the bowl while I prepare our fillings. And to make sure that this doesn't dry out, I will take a paper towel. Just kind of wet it a little bit. Squeeze out the majority of the water. So leave it slightly damp and place that right over the dough ball. Now I've got our toppings. I'm using the traditional red bean paste which I have here. You can use about a quarter cup of red bean paste here. And I also like to use some Nutella because who doesn't like Nutella? So we'll set these two items aside and meanwhile I'll get a plate for our sesame seeds. So this is once we roll our dough in a plate of sesame seeds. First I'll start with a little bit of rice flour. Dust that on our board. Next I'll take the warm dough ball. Divide it in two. Set this aside. Roll this into a log. And I'm looking for about five pieces here. Try to make them as even as possible and if you need to use a scale you can, but I'm just going to eyeball it here. And each one I'm going to roll into a ball first. Now that we have our balls all rolled up we can flatten them by hand. And then with a small spoon take a little bit of the filling and put that directly into the center. Then just wrap them around and then roll them into a ball. Once it's fairly smooth roll them in the sesame seeds and try to pat the sesame seeds into the dough so that way when we deep fry them they don't come off. Perfect. Now we have our first ball and we'll set that aside. Now for the second one I'm going to be using Nutella as a filling. And Nutella is a bit softer so you need to be careful. You could also chill the Nutella in the fridge so it firms up a bit. And now I'm just going to repeat the process for the rest. All right I just rolled five of the balls which is half of the dough and I have a little bit left over. I'm just going to roll this into a small ball so that way we can use to test our oil with. Now we're ready to fry. All right now I'm going to heat up our oil and I'm using vegetable oil today. You can also use canola oil or peanut oil also works as well. I'm looking for the oil to be about 300 degrees. So I'm going to put this on a medium-high heat and once that's ready we'll test it with our chopsticks and our little dough ball and we'll be ready to go. All right so I'm just gonna test the oil. I don't have a thermometer so I'm going to test first with my chopsticks. Once I put them in they should bubble and that's when I know that it's pretty ready. You can see there's a little bit of white bubbles around there. And since I have a little ball that I made here we'll put this in first just to test. Well we know it's ready so I will take this one out put this off to the side and we'll put them in. I think I'll use my chopsticks just to be safe. Once you put them in use your chopsticks or a spoon to make sure that they don't burn on the bottom. Keep your oil at a low temperature and once they start to float then we'll raise the temperature. And while we're waiting I'm gonna put this little sacrificial ball back in. This is really good dough it's gonna taste like deep-fried mochi so super delicious. All right now is the exciting part the balls have started to float a little bit so I'm going to take a spoon and push them down. Now when I push them down you'll notice that they begin to kind of puff up so that's a good thing to do. Now that they're all floating they are done and we just want to make them a little bit crispy so if they don't look like they've come to a golden brown you can turn up the heat a little bit. All right I'm gonna take them out drain as much as you can off of that. Okay and we're done. This recipe makes 10 mini sesame balls like this but I'm just going to do five because I have such a small pot and then we'll make another batch later. This is how you make them and we'll let them cool for about 10 to 15 minutes and then you can consume them. And that guys is how you make zumacho or sesame balls two ways. We've got the red bean and then we've also got the Nutella in there. I don't know which one's which so I guess it's gonna be a surprise. So this one is the red bean and I can totally you can taste like the sesame seeds it's like perfectly roasted and I love how it's like gooey on the inside. It's delicious and it was only just a few ingredients and super easy to make. And now let's go look for the Nutella. And yes that is the Nutella. This looks so good. It's a little warm. And between the red bean and the Nutella I feel like the Nutella is like amazing. It's now my favorite way of making sesame ball. They're super delicious and I hope you guys try this at home. I'm Angel. Thank you guys so much for watching and if you enjoyed today's video on how to make sesame balls two ways don't forget to give me a thumbs up and subscribe to my channel. And as my grandpa would say sharing a meal with a fascinating stranger is one of life's true delights. So until we can share some sesame balls together or zumacho, take care. I love you and I'll see you guys in the next one. Bye!