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Easy No-Yeast Purple Sweet Potato Mochi Bread (Eggless)

written by Marvellina Updated: March 1, 2024
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Soft, chewy, and stretchy mochi bread infused with mashed purple sweet potato is easy to make and is naturally gluten-free and eggless. The recipe works great with regular sweet potatoes too. A video tutorial is available too
Easy No-Yeast Purple Sweet Potato Mochi Bread (Eggless)
At this point in life, I think it’s pretty safe to say that I’m pretty hooked with mini cheese mochi bread. It’s all started with that recipe and since then I’ve made this purple sweet potato version and also the chocolate mochi bread loaf. With the shortages of yeast and also wheat flour (if you are still experiencing that problem), it’s great to use alternative flour like glutinous rice flour and tapioca starch/flour, which also happen to be gluten-free.

TYPE OF PURPLE SWEET POTATOES TO USE

I have used Stokes purple sweet potatoes, Okinawan purple sweet potatoes and also ube (Filipino yam).

HOW TO MAKE NO-YEAST EGGLESS PURPLE SWEET POTATO MOCHI BREAD

1. COOK THE SWEET POTATO
You will need about 1 medium-large sweet potato. Peel the skin and cut into smaller pieces. If you have a pressure cooker like Instant Pot, place the sweet potato in a steamer basket. Pour 1 cup of water into a pot and put the steamer basket on top of a trivet. Pressure cook on high for 2 minutes. Release pressure immediately and mash the sweet potatoes while they are warm. You can also use a steamer and steam on the stove on high heat for 10 minutes or until they are fork-tender

2. PREPARE THE DOUGH
Preheat oven to 375 F (180 C) for a conventional oven. If you use a convection oven please lower the temperature by 20 degrees. Line baking sheet with parchment paper or silicone mat. Combine tapioca flour, glutinous rice, flour, and baking powder, mix to combine. Put the milk and butter in a saucepan. Simmer until the butter melts and then bring to a point of boiling and then turn off immediately. You need to make sure it comes to a rolling boil before turning off the heat. Immediately sift in the flour mixture

Then add mashed purple sweet potatoes, sugar, and ube extract (if using). Use a sturdy spatula to stir and combine into a rough dough and then use your hands to knead into a dough. It should be a slightly sticky dough. If it’s too dry you can add a bit more milk, teaspoon by teaspoon. Each brand of flour has different liquid absorption. So you may or may not need to add extra liquid. I didn’t have to.

3. SHAPING
Divide the dough into 16 equal pieces for mini size or 12-14 for slightly larger size

Roll them into round balls. Place on the baking sheet about at least 1-inch apart. If the dough is a bit sticky you can lightly spray your palms with non-stick spray or just lightly oil your palm. Try not to add anymore flour

4. BAKING
Place baking sheet in the middle rack and bake for about 20 minutes until the bottom is slightly golden brown for small bread and 25-30 minutes for a larger size. Some of the bread may crack a little as it rises, that’s normal. If too many cracks, next time you can mist the shaped dough with some water before putting it into the oven. I didn’t do this

Remove from the oven and let stand for about 5 minutes and then transfer to a cooling rack to let them cool down completely. They are best eaten when fresh. Once cooled down, the inside remains moist and stretchy

Easy No-Yeast Purple Sweet Potato Mochi Bread (Eggless)

TIPS YOU NEED TO KNOW

1. Please make sure when you melt the butter and milk, the milk comes to a boil and then immediately turn off and sift in the flour mixture and the rest of the ingredients. This is important to get a nice soft pliable dough
4. I recommend adding ube extract (purple in color), or purple sweet potato powder if you have any. Some purple sweet potatoes may change color because of acid/base balance. So by adding food coloring/extract, the color changes won’t show in the end product

WILL MOCHI BREAD STAYS SOFT FOR DAYS?

No, they won’t. They taste the best the same day you make them, preferably within 3-4 hours. They will stretch the most when they are warm. The next day, they would harden a bit which is typical of gluten-free bread, but still reasonably soft compared to the older recipe I’ve made. You can warm them up in a preheated oven/toaster oven or air-fryer at 350 F for 5-8 minutes and they will back to that slightly crisp outside, soft and stretchy texture again on the inside.
Easy No-Yeast Purple Sweet Potato Mochi Bread (Eggless)

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Easy No-Yeast Purple Sweet Potato Mochi Bread (Eggless)

OTHER MOCHI BREAD RECIPES YOU MIGHT LIKE:

Easy No-Yeast Gluten-Free Chocolate Mochi Bread Loaf

Easy No-Yeast Gluten-Free Chocolate Mochi Bread Loaf

Super Easy Mini Cheddar Mochi Bread

Super Easy Mini Cheddar Mochi Bread

*Latest update June 2, 2020: I have worked on this recipe for months trying to improve the texture and to make it really stretchy. I decided to replace the older version with this improved one, which is WAYYY better, like seriously better! Not to mention I managed to make it eggless too LOL! I’m happy*

Easy No-Yeast Purple Sweet Potato Mochi Bread (Eggless)

Easy No-Yeast Purple Sweet Potato Mochi Bread (Eggless)

Prep Time 15 minutes mins
Cook Time 20 minutes mins
Total Time 35 minutes mins
Servings 16 mini bread
4.8 from 15 reviews
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Ingredients

Please weigh your ingredients by weight for the best result!

Dry ingredients:

  • 100 gr milk or more as needed
  • 20 gr butter
  • 100 gr tapioca flour
  • 40 gr glutinous rice flour or more as needed
  • ½ tsp baking powder
  • 50 gr sugar or more to your taste
  • 100 gr mashed purple sweet potato

Food coloring (use one of the following):

  • ¼ tsp ube extract
  • 5 gr purple yam powder
  • Few drops purple food coloring

Instructions
 

Cook the sweet potato:

  • You will need about 1 medium-large sweet potato. Peel the skin and cut into smaller pieces. If you have a pressure cooker like Instant Pot, place the sweet potato in a steamer basket. Pour 1 cup of water into a pot and put the steamer basket on top of a trivet. Pressure cook on high for 2 minutes. Release pressure immediately and mash the sweet potatoes while they are warm. You can also use a steamer and steam on the stove on high heat for 10 minutes or until they are fork-tender

Prepare the dough:

  • Preheat oven to 375 F (180 C) for a conventional oven. If you use a convection oven please lower the temperature by 20 degrees. Line baking sheet with parchment paper or silicone mat. Combine tapioca flour, glutinous rice, flour, and baking powder, mix to combine. Put the milk and butter in a saucepan. Simmer until the butter melts and then bring to a point of boiling and then turn off immediately. You need to make sure it comes to a rolling boil before turning off the heat
  • Immediately sift in the flour mixture and then add mashed purple sweet potatoes, sugar, and ube extract/food coloring (if using). Use a sturdy spatula to stir and combine into a rough dough and then use your hands to knead into a dough. It should be a slightly sticky dough. If it’s too dry you can add a bit more milk, teaspoon by teaspoon. Each brand of flour has different liquid absorption. So you may or may not need to add extra liquid. I didn’t have to.

Shaping:

  • Divide the dough into 16 equal pieces for mini size or 12-14 for a slightly larger size. If the dough is a bit sticky you can lightly spray your palms with non-stick spray or just lightly oil your palm. Try not to add anymore flour. Place on the baking sheet about at least 1-inch apart

Baking:

  • Place baking sheet in the middle rack and bake for about 20 minutes until the bottom is slightly golden brown for small bread and 25-30 minutes for a larger size. Some of the bread may crack a little as it rises, that’s normal. If too many cracks, next time you can mist the shaped dough with some water before putting into the oven. I didn't do this
  • Remove from the oven and let stand for about 5 minutes and then transfer to cooling rack to let them cool down completely. They are best eaten when fresh and stretchy when they are freshly baked. Once cooled down, they will start to harden but if you warm it up again, it will be soft again

Storage and reheating:

  • Store them in an air-tight container at room temperature for up to 2-3 days (they don't last that long at our house). Wrap them in plastic wrap and then freeze if you want to store them longer. Thaw in the refrigerator before reheating
  • To reheat in oven or toaster oven, spray with some mist of water and then wrap them in aluminum foil and then bake at 350 for 5 minutes. To reheat in microwave, cover the bread with some moist clean kitchen towel or paper towel and heat for about 1 minute or less

RECOMMEDED TOOLS

Baking sheets
Parchment Paper
digital kitchen scale
digital kitchen scale

Marv's Recipe Notes

  1. You can also use regular sweet potatoes. I used fresh purple sweet potatoes and regular sweet potatoes, but you can also use canned sweet potatoes if they are available. Drain the liquid but save about 3-4 Tbsp in case you need it when you make the dough

*Nutrition facts are just estimates and calculated using online tools*

Nutrition Facts
Easy No-Yeast Purple Sweet Potato Mochi Bread (Eggless)
Serving Size
 
1 small mochi bread
Amount per Serving
Calories
62
% Daily Value*
Fat
 
1
g
2
%
Saturated Fat
 
1
g
6
%
Trans Fat
 
1
g
Polyunsaturated Fat
 
1
g
Monounsaturated Fat
 
1
g
Cholesterol
 
3
mg
1
%
Sodium
 
26
mg
1
%
Potassium
 
63
mg
2
%
Carbohydrates
 
13
g
4
%
Fiber
 
1
g
4
%
Sugar
 
3
g
3
%
Protein
 
1
g
2
%
Vitamin A
 
50
IU
1
%
Vitamin C
 
1
mg
1
%
Calcium
 
16
mg
2
%
Iron
 
1
mg
6
%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.
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16 comments

Noa July 19, 2021 - 4:27 pm

Hi. I made the old version of this recipe and loved it. Today I tried making this updated version but, using the amount of flour stated in the recipe, my dough was Way too wet and sticky. So I added more but even after adding Much more than the recipe stated the dough was still the same mess. I didn’t seem right to me that I would have to add so much more glutinous rice flour (to the point where it was numerous tablespoons more than the recipe’s stated 3 tablespoons) and then still have to add more to get something somewhat like a dough, but still not really. I kept adding flour to make it somewhat workable but ended up putting it in the oven while it was still pretty sticky just because I had already added so much extra glutinous rice flour than the recipe asked for. Any idea why my dough never really became dough-like even though I started by following the exact recipe and like it said I added more flour a bit at a time? Even with all that flour it went in the oven as a dough that still seemed much too sticky and came out with the insides much more like actual mochi than a bread texture. Thank you!

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Marvellina July 24, 2021 - 9:43 pm

Hi Noa,
I just realized that the cups and tbsp measurements I posted weren’t accurate. I used an automatic conversion (I know not to use that anymore especially for specialty flour/starch like glutinous rice flour, tapioca flour, etc. The tool apparently is not accurate for that). I usually use a scale to measure all the baking here so I don’t usually use cups and tbsp. The amount of flour/starch needed are way more than what the original conversion were. If you have scale, I would definitely go for the scale for accuracy. But, I have updated the US customary measurement. Sorry for the trouble!

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XY May 9, 2021 - 6:00 am

Hello Marv, I just tried making this. I substituted the sweet potato for pumpkin in 1:1 ratio, and substituted tapioca starch with corn flour in 2:1 ratio. It was too wet. So I added another 12g of corn flour and 52g until the tackiness looked like your picture. The end result was a very thick crust with a very strong flour taste :/ Do you have any suggestions how I could improve the ingredients proportion if I want to use pumpkin instead of sweet potatoes?

Reply
Marvellina May 10, 2021 - 3:34 pm

Hi XY, pumpkin has higher moisture content compared to purple sweet potatoes. Purple sweet potatoes tend to be at the drier side. You probably don’t want to keep adding the starch/flour. Did you add any other liquid? maybe try to control the amount of liquid so the dough won’t be too wet. You may not even need any liquid considering how moist mashed pumpkin is

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Elaine March 16, 2021 - 12:41 pm

Hi Marv! Would like to check if normal baking powder work? Does it have to be “aluminum free”?

Reply
Marvellina March 16, 2021 - 11:26 pm

Hi Elaine, it will work with normal baking powder too. You may notice a bit of color change if you use purple sweet potato, but it shouldn’t affect the taste.

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