Ingredients   (serves 10)

• Glutinous rice, 1 ⅓ cup
• Red food colouring
• Red bean paste, 160g
• Sakura (cherry blossom) leaves
• Water, 1 ⅕ cup

Instructions

1. Wash glutinous rice and soak it for 1 hour. While soaking add 1 or 2 drops of red food colouring.
2. Pour rice and water into inner pot of Thermos® Shuttle Chef®. Boil rice , and simmer in medium fire for 5 minutes.
3. Place inner pot into the outer pot, cover lids and let it cook for 15 minutes.
4. Add sugar to cooked rice, mix well and slightly mash rice with a pestle.
5. Split rice into 10 portions, roll them into oval shapes with red bean paste as filling and wrap around with Sakura leaves. Read to serve.