Cheese Mochi Bread

Close-up of a half-bitten mochi cheese bread ball.

5 from 11 votes

This delicious Cheese Mochi Bread Recipe is crisp on the outside and soft and oozy on the inside! It's also a super easy recipe: you just mix everything and bake. Plus no sugar is used so you don't have to feel guilty about snacking! (Baked) (Air Fried)

Prep Time5

Cook Time25

Course: Appetizer, Breakfast, Snack

Cuisine: Asian, korean

Servings: pieces

Calories: 57kcal

Author: Zen

Equipment

1 Baking tray and Silpat/ parchment paper If baking in oven
Aluminium Foil If making in air fryer

Ingredients

Wet ingredients

1 egg Choose a large one and beat it well
⅙ Cup salted butter (37.5g/ 1.3 oz) melted. If using unsalted butter, please add ½ teaspoon salt.
4 Tablespoons whole milk (60g/ 2.1 oz) Don't use low-fat milk.

Dry ingredients

1 Cup Glutinous Rice Flour (125g/ 4.4 oz) You can also use sweet rice flour or mochiko flour but NOT regular rice flour.
½ teaspoon baking powder
½ Cup grated parmesan (45g/ 1.6 oz) I have also tested it with shredded mozzarella but the resulting bread bakes up more quickly and, if you leave it in for too long, the crust will be a bit thick.
10 turns ground black pepper optional.

Instructions

Pre-heat the oven to 350F/ 177C/ 157C fan.
If using an air fryer, pre-heat at 350F/ 177C.
Melt the butter gently over a low fire in a small pan. Do not let it bubble and boil. Whilst it's melting, beat the egg well.
Note: since it's a small amount, if you're worried about it coming to the boil when you have your eye off it, you can heat it with the milk
Mix the dry ingredients and the cheese in a large mixing bowl.
Add the melted butter and milk into the dry ingredients, mix, then add the beaten egg and mix again till no lumps remain.
Note: we add the wet ingredients in 2 batches to avoid the heat from the butter cooking the egg.
Line the baking tray with parchment paper then divide the dough into 20 balls of dough and place onto the paper.
Roll between your palms till smooth and round then place on the baking sheet with ½-1 inch between them.
Note: for more evenly-sized snacks, you may use a small cookie scoop but you will get a different size/ number of cheese balls.(The baking time changes with the size of the mochi ball.)
Oven Baked
Bake for 20-25 minutes till nice and golden. If you overtake, the crust will become thicker and harder.
Air Fried
They air fry faster at 350F/177C, taking about 4-5 minutes but you will need to do more than 1 batch as the air fryer basket is smaller.

Notes

To make more golden: besides using oil spray, you can also add some nutritional yeast (will also make it more savory) or a pinch of turmeric powder.

Note: the nutritional information is an estimate automatically calculated using the WPRM recipe maker and I am not responsible for its accuracy.

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