Jian dui, or sesame balls, is a fried Chinese pastry made from glutinous rice flour and coated with sesame seeds on the outside, crisp and chewy after cooking. The dough expands during frying to leave a large hollow inside the pastry, which is filled with lotus paste, sweet black bean paste, or red bean paste. Depending on the region, the pastry is also known as matuan in North and Northwest China, mayuan in Northeast China, and zhendai in Hainan. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Jian dui (Wikipedia)
- Expresses Tradition: Yum Cha, Wikipedia category: Category:Dim sum
- Uses Ingredient: Glutinous Rice, Infobox food/dish main_ingredient field
- Uses Ingredient: Sesame, Infobox food/dish main_ingredient field
- Uses Ingredient: Adzuki Bean, Infobox food/dish main_ingredient field
- Uses Ingredient: Mung Bean, Infobox food/dish main_ingredient field
In Cuisine: Chinese Cuisine, lead paragraph
Jian dui or sesame balls are a type of fried Chinese pastry made from glutinous rice flour.
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