# Sesame “Laughing” Balls 笑口棗

Cuisine: chinese · Time: 80 minutes · Servings: 8

## Ingredients

- 300 g All-purpose flour
- 120 g Sugar
- 2 g Baking powder ((1/2 tsp))
- 1 g Baking soda ((1/4 tsp))
- 1  Egg
- 45 ml Oil
- 90 ml Water
- 60 g White sesame seeds
- 600 ml Oil  (for deep frying)

## Steps

1. Combine 300g of all-purpose flour, 1 g baking powder and 2 g baking soda in a mixing bowl and mix well
2. Add 120 g sugar, 1 egg and 45 ml oil into the mixing bowl.  Mix until clumpy
3. Add 90 ml water and mix with your hands and knead only until you can form a ball with the dough.  If the dough is too wet, add some more flour  It should look like it has cracks in it.  You don’t want to overwork the dough since we want the balls to turn out more crumbly than chewy.  The kneading should take about 5 minutes
4. Put the dough ball into the mixing bowl, cover the bowl and let the dough rest for 15 minutes
5. After 15 minutes, sprinkle a flat surface with some four and cut the dough ball in half.
6. Put one half back into the mixing bowl and cover
7. Make a ball with the other half, flatten the ball slightly, and make a hole in the middle of the ball
8. Stretch the dough to make a ring.
9. Make a horizontal cut on the ring and roll it on a flat surface until the dough has an even diameter.  Approx. 3 cm diameter
10. Cut into 10 g pieces
11. Roll each piece into a ball with the palms of your hands
12. Put 60 g of sesame seeds into a bowl
13. Prepare a bowl with some water.  Enough to cover the balls
14. Put a few balls into the water.  Quickly remove them and put them into the sesame seed bowl
15. Cover each ball completely with sesame seeds.  Use a spoon to help
16. Roll each ball again using your palms to press the sesame seeds into the dough and put onto a plate
17. Repeat steps 13 to 15 until all the dough is used
18. Pour 600 ml oil into a pot (or you can use a deep fryer) You can use a bigger pot and more oil to reduce the number of batches to fry
19. Heat the oil to approx. 150˚C or 300˚F.  Turn off the heat  This will prevent the ball from hardening too quickly on the outside.  Once it hardens, it’ll be difficult for the air inside the balls to crack open the dough
20. Add the sesame balls to the pot.  The balls will expand, so try not to overcrowd the pot
21. Turn the heat back on to medium after 3 minutes.  The balls should have floated up to the surface of the oil and started to crack open
22. Keep frying at around 120˚C or 250˚F for around 5 minutes frying at a low temperature will help them crack open more
23. Then turn the heat to medium high for approx. 1-2 minutes to get the perfect golden colour
24. Remove the balls from the oil and put them on a cooling rack
25. Repeat until all the sesame balls have been fried
26. After frying, let them cool for 15 minutes before serving

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Source: auntieemily — https://auntieemily.com/sesame-laughing-balls/
Page: https://findfood.fun/vi/recipes/7392
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