Japanese rice cakes (mochi): recipe to make at home

Japan is a wonderful country. Not only for its cultural richness and its delicate landscapes, but for its incredible gastronomic wealth, whose recipes have reached our country to stay (thesushi it is a good example of this, but not the only one).

Your natural drinks, as is the case with Green Tea, they become unique and delicious options. While, among the meals and typical dishes, not only highlights the sushi, but other ideal options such as the udon, the Okonomiyaki, or the exquisite ramen.

But, and in the case of desserts? There is no doubt that the mochi stands out precisely for being one of the most popular, classic and typical. It consists, as we will see throughout this recipe note, in a kind of rice cake that is made withmochigome, a grain of Japanese glutinous rice, of small size.

The truth is that your recipe is really simple, and the result is delicious, soft texture and sweet taste, it is an exquisite option to take after a festive meal. Do you dare to prepare it? Discover the ingredients and steps you need.

Mochi: recipe for Japanese rice cakes

Ingredients for mochi (for 6-10 units)

  • 250 g of glutinous rice
  • 1/4 cup of sugar
  • 1 cup of water
  • Rice starch (to sprinkle while kneading)

Preparation of mochi dough

  1. In a bowl or bowl mix the glutinous rice flour together with the sugar and water. For this it is important to mix vigorously, but adding water slowly. Mix well until there are no lumps, but the dough is elastic and rather sticky.
  2. Wet a dishcloth and use it to line a bamboo bowl for steaming. To do this, pour the dough into the bowl, cover and reserve. Put water in a saucepan or pan of the same diameter and when it starts to boil add the bamboo bowl.
  3. Let the rice cook for 20 to 25 minutes, until the dough acquires a rather sticky texture. Remove from the heat and let it cool (until the dough is rather warm).
  4. Knead manually. For this, put rice starch on the kitchen countertop.
  5. Put the mochi paste on top of the counter with rice starch, stretch the dough and cut it into small portions.
  6. Now flatten each ball with the help of the palm of your hands, and stretch them carefully to form a disc.
  7. If you wish, you can re-form balls to serve (if you're not going to fill them), or leave them as they are and cut them into squares.

Although mochis can be filled with different ingredients and options, both sweet and salty, the most common is to use anko, which consists of a paste of red soya beans known by the name of azukis.

What is mochi? What does it consist of?

As we have told you throughout this recipe, the mochi is a typical dessert of Japan, which basically consists of a sweet rice cake, which is usually eaten as such or rather filled with a sweet or salty ingredient, in which case it becomes aDaifuku Mochi.

Its appearance is rather glutinous, and its texture between sticky and glutinous. In fact, due to its texture, in Japan hundreds of people die each year from choking, especially elderly people. For this reason, in this country it is advisable to eat accompanied mochis, and never alone.

The most common, traditional and typical filling is a kind of red bean paste (specifically of azukis, the popular Japanese red soybeans), which is named after anko.

Although it is also common to use other typical fillings, such as umeboshi plums, fruits or even chocolate. ThemesRecipes of rice Recipes of pies

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