Chocolate Sesame Balls

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Preparation info
  • Serves

    4

    • Difficulty

      Medium

    • Ready in

      25 min

Appears in
China Modern: 100 Cutting-Edge, Fusion-Style Recipes for the 21st Century

By Ching-He Huang

Published 2006

  • About

Ooh la la! These are what I call my naughty but nice Chinese-style profiteroles. In this recipe, glutinous rice flour is used to make a snug casing for pieces of dark chocolate molded into a ball shape. The balls are coated in fragrant sesame seeds and then deep-fried. They expand and turn golden brown and the sesame seeds toast in the oil, giving a crunchy outer crust. Meanwhile, the chocolate inside has melted. And if that’s not enough my friends, melted chocolate is poured over – the ult