Red Bean Pudding Cake (Boot Jai Go 砵仔糕) Recipe
Red bean pudding cake or "boot jai go" is a popular Hong Kong street food, commonly eaten as a snack. They're traditionally steamed in round earthen bowls, but I enjoy using my recipe to create different shapes and sizes!
Ingredients
- 75 g rice flour
- 5 g wheat starch
- 3 tbsp cooked red beans or to taste
- 4 tbsp dark brown sugar
- 1 cup water separated into two 1/2 cups
Instructions
- In a bowl, add the rice flour, wheat starch and 1/2 cup water. Mix until well blended.
- In a small pot, add the remaining 1/2 cup water with the dark brown sugar. Whisk until the sugar is completely dissolved. (You may turn off the fire once water is hot or let it come to a slight boil)
- Add both mixtures (from steps 1 and 2) together and mix until combined.
- Bring some water in a steamer pot to a boil.
- Lightly coat 6 earthen bowls with some oil, then steam them while empty for about 5 minutes.
- Place 1.5 tsp of cooked red beans into each bowl. Subsequently, divide the batter between the bowls equally and steam for 15-20 minutes, or until an inserted toothpick comes out clean. See Note 1
- Remove the cakes from the steamer pot and allow them to cool.
- Serve at room temperature and enjoy! See Note 2.
Notes
- This recipe makes about 6 pudding cakes if using traditional earthen bowls. You can divide the 3 tbsp of cooked red beans between the bowls (1.5 tsp of red beans per bowl). You may also top the steamed pudding cakes with additional red beans (optional), in which case you will need more cooked red beans.
- Traditionally, bamboo skewers are used to turn the cakes out of the earthen bowls and used to hold the cakes while they are eaten.
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