desserts & holiday & japanese & mochi & new year's day 23 Feb 2008 10:37 pm
An* mochi – *sweet red azuki bean
I LOVE mochi. And now you can make it yourself at home!
However…I advise you to just go to the mochi store and pay 80 cents, cause this recipe is a pain in the azz, seriously. But here it is if you want to try it. It’s absolutely delicious.
Ingredients:
3-1/2 cup water
1 cup sugar
ΒΌ tsp food coloring (I prefer pink)
1 box mochiko
1 can/bag an (prepared sweet red beans)
potato starch
To start – prep a cutting board by sprinkling liberally with potato starch. Set aside.
Boil the water and the sugar until the sugar is dissolved. Add the food coloring and stir. I prefer to always make my mochi PINK, but my MIL prefers green, and since she is demo’ing this recipe, well…
Now the fun. Add the box of mochiko and stir like crazy!! I’m dead serious – if you don’t work fast you are so screwed. It gets really really hard to stir.
Once combined, dump onto your prepped cutting board.
Pull off a round piece. Flatten out, and add a dollop of an beans to the center. (You can also use peanut butter if you like). Pull up the corners around the an, closing up the pouch. Pinch closed.
Warning: This makes a TON of mochi. You better be going to a party or something, cause it’s plenty. Also, because there are so many, (just look at the picture) you will be filling these things for hours. You know what I mean? TIME CONSUMING. Just saying. But they are so soft and delicious, there is nothing better than freshly homemade mochi. MMMM…
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on 25 Feb 2008 at 12:24 pm 1.dapotato said …
my g-ma used to make these, freeze them, and then cross the pacific with them. by the time she got here, they’d be perfectly thawed. mmm. perhaps one day i will attempt them at home. or just go to mitsuwa/marukai/wherever.
on 27 Sep 2009 at 3:33 am 2.Susan said …
I made mochi, had to use the microwave method as doing it in a pan on the hob ended up as a big ball of gloop!
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