Japanese Strawberry Mochi Recipe

The other ingredients are simple.

Japanese strawberry mochi recipe. Cover strawberries all over with a thin layer of the bean paste. Today s recipe is a classic strawberry daifuku. Nope gotta have the layer of red bean in there. Strawberry mochi could technically just be strawberry wrapped in mochi with no red bean paste or maybe even pink strawberry flavored mochi.

Separate the balls with greased scissors or with chopsticks p. So daifuku is more specific than mochi. Because the sugar will dissolve with the moisture in the mochi making it super sticky. Add some more water if it s too dry 1 tbsp at a time.

So i m calling it strawberry mochi here because if i called it strawberry daifuku people may not know what it is. Steam the mochiko dough leaving the dough in the bowl in a steamer for 20 minutes. Transfer the steamed mochi into a pot and cook at medium to medium low heat with 1 3 of the sugar 2 3 cup. When cool take the mochi and make it into walnut sized balls then flatten them.

Pull off a teaspoonful sized mochi ball with your hand and coat in peanut powder. Then sugar was rare but daifuku became more like today s when sugar was more readily available to people even though it was still very precious 200 years ago. The following is a recipe list of many wonderful and varied ways to enjoy rice cakes. Daifuku mochi is one of the most traditional but very popular japanese sweets.

Place a strawberry in the center of each mochi and bring edges together pinching to close. It was first made almost 700 years ago but not as a sweet dessert. Alternatively if you prepared it inside a bag cut off a 1 4 corner and squeeze from the bag. 8 medium strawberries stems removed cup koshian sweet red or white bean paste.

Daifuku is mochi filled with red bean paste. Then divide it into small balls. Then put the strawberry coated with chocolate at step 1 in the middle of the dough and roll. Mochi or japanese rice cakes is one of japan s favorite foods it is not only a traditional food with many ways to enjoy it but it is also incorporated into modern dishes of various international cuisines.

After that squeeze each dough so that it can cover the strawberry. Use mochiko on hands and mochi pieces to prevent sticking. Mix mochiko and water in a glass or other heat proof bowl and mix well. As this seasonal mochi includes fresh strawberry it is only offered during strawberry season in japan between winter and spring.

To make strawberry daifuku. Smaller ones are easier to work with. After kneading let the dough rest in 10 minutes. You can make your own red bean paste recipe here or use store bought bean paste for short cut.