Sakura Mochi - A Recipe Passed from Mother to Daughter
Sakura Mochi - A Recipe Passed from Mother to Daughter

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Chewy sakura mochi with sweet anko filling is simply delectable! Mix in the aroma of cherry blossom leaves and the experience is simply amazing! For this recipe, I actually used regular sweet rice and cooked from scratch.

To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook sakura mochi - a recipe passed from mother to daughter using 5 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Sakura Mochi - A Recipe Passed from Mother to Daughter:
  1. Take 700 grams Uncooked mochi rice
  2. Get 4 tbsp Sugar
  3. Prepare 200 grams Sweet red bean paste
  4. Get 1 dash Food colouring (red)
  5. Get 15 leaves Salt preserved cherry leaves

Microwave mochi is so easy and fun to make with your kids. Ever since my daughter finished reading the Jasmine Toguchi series she won't stop talking about making mochi. Traditionally, mochi was made from whole rice, in a labor-intensive process. Polished glutinous rice is soaked overnight and steamed.

Steps to make Sakura Mochi - A Recipe Passed from Mother to Daughter:
  1. Rinse the sweet rice. Drain in a sieve.
  2. Dissolve red food colouring in 350 ml of water. Soak the rice in the water for 30 minutes. Cook the rice in the rice cooker.
  3. Make balls from the bean paste.
  4. Immerse the cherry blossom leaves briefly in water (to remove the salt). Pat dry.
  5. When the rice cooker has finished cooking, let it rest for 10 minutes to steam the rice. Add sugar, and mix while grinding the rice slightly.
  6. When the rice has cooled a bit, wrap in the bean paste, then fold a cherry blossom leaf over the rice cake. (It will be easier if you flatten the rice between plastic wrap.)

Sorry, we could not translate this listing to English. A mochi according to the Japanese terminology is a cake which is made of rice flour and which usually contains a fruit or other kind of sweet filling. The best way to get started with Japanese mochi recipes is by getting this book. You can get the whole picture of how to make this dessert really shine. Daifuku Mochi is rice cake with Anko, sweet red bean paste, inside.

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