Garlic Pumpkin Cheese Bites
Ingredients
- 1 C Pumpkin Puree
- ½ Tsp Salt
- ¾ C Rice Flour (May need to add more)
- ½ Cup Glutinous Rice Flour
- 3 Tbsp Garlic (Grated or Minced)
- 2 Tbsp Black Pepper
- 16 oz Mozzarella and/or Parmesan or other Cheeses (Cut into Slices or Cubes)
- a little Salt (For Stuffing)
Instructions
- Mix Pumpkin Puree, Rice Flour, Salt, and Glutinous Rice Flour in a bowl. The texture of the dough should be tacky but stiff enough to hold its shape. You may need to add more Glutinous Rice Flour or plain Rice Flour based on differing moisture levels.
- Take about 1-2 Tbsp of the dough, roll it into a ball, and indent it. In the indent, stuff it with Garlic, Black Pepper, a little Salt, and Cheese. Wrap the dough around the filling, roll it into a ball, and flatten slightly. Place the flatten ones on parchment paper squares or parchment paper squares.
- In a medium high heat pan with a lot of oil, shallow fry the flatten Dough balls until it is golden brown on each side. About 3-7 minutes per side, depending on how much dough was used.
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Notes
Glutinous Rice flour is the rice flour that is used to make mochi. It is made out of glutinous rice. Regular Rice Flour, called rice flour in this recipe, is just normal rice flour.
Any ratio of Glutinous Rice Flour to regular Rice Flour can be used. Adding more Glutinous Rice flour gives it a more chewy and mochi like texture. Adding more Rice Flour makes it stiffer.
Different brands of pumpkin puree hold different moisture levels, so add more rice flour if the dough is too wet.
The dough should be tacky, but stiff enough to hold its own shape.
Using a Blend of Mozzarella and Parmesan makes it even more Delicious. Mozzarella is what gives it the cheese pull.
Using more dough makes it easier to wrap the filling, but also takes longer to cook
Store by cooking all of them, letting them cool completely, freezing them individually, then putting them in a container.
Reheat by baking or air frying at 200F for about 10-15 minutes, keep an eye out on it so that they don’t burn