New Year Muah Chee

Today is lunar new year and I wanted to celebrate with the kids. Normally, chinese eat new year rice cake. I looked at recipes over the weekend and tried to find one that isn't super sweet. All of them ones I found use red sugar in equal parts with sweet rice flour. I'm not big on sweets, so I searched for mochi recipes. Again, most of the recipes I found had more sugar than I like until I found this recipe

Using that as the starting point, I made a few minor changes. Here is my recipe

1 cup mochiko (aka sweet rice flour)
1 cup goya cocanut milk
1/2 cup water
1 pinch salt

1 cup roasted peanuts
4 tbsp raw sugar
2 tbs toasted sesame seeds

Before you make the muah chee, make the peanut mixture. Put the peanuts and raw sugar into a food processor and pulse for a minute or two. Pour the peanut sugar mix into a glass or non-stick baking pan. Add the sesame seeds and mix.

In a large microwave oven safe bowl combine sweet rice flour and salt. Give it a quick mix. Add the cocanut milk + water and mix. Microwave the for 2 min on high. Remove from the microwave and knead it for 5-6 min until it starts to look shiny.

Microwave for 2.5min and then knead again for 5-6min. Cut chunk of the mochi and put it in the pan with the peanut mix. Move it around and cut them into small bite size pieces with kitchen scissors. Repeat this process until all of the mochi is coated in the peanut mix.

Eat immediately while it is still warm.