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Sakura-mochi is a pink rice cake filled with red bean paste. Mochi (pink rice cake): Wash rice very thoroughly until clear. Soak rice in water, dropping a few drops of red food coloring until the rice looks pink. You can either steam the rice until cooked or cook it with ample water in a rice cooker.
To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have easy sakura mochi (cherry blossom rice cake) from cooked rice using 8 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Easy Sakura Mochi (Cherry Blossom Rice Cake) from Cooked Rice:
- Get 1 small 1 rice bowl's worth Hot cooked rice
- Make ready 2 tsp ★Water
- Take 2 tsp ★Katakuriko
- Get 2 tsp ★Sugar
- Make ready 1 pinch ★Salt
- Make ready 1 dash ★Food coloring (red)
- Take 40 grams Pureed sweetened bean paste
- Prepare 2 Salted cherry blossom leaves (if you have)
Wet the spatula to make working with the mochi easier, and spoon a small serving on to the cling wrap. Mochi is usually made from sweet rice (also called Mochi rice) cooked and pounded until it becomes a paste that is very sticky and smooth, then formed into cakes or blocks. It is often eaten in New Year's Ozoni soup or. Cherry blossom season in Japan is one of the most spectacular and beautiful times of the year.
Steps to make Easy Sakura Mochi (Cherry Blossom Rice Cake) from Cooked Rice:
- Divide the bean paste in half and make balls. If you have the cherry blossom leaves, soak them in water for about 10 minutes (to desalt) and wash.
- Mash the hot cooked rice with a spoon (or similar). Sprinkle a little water if the rice is hard. (I put the rice in a rice bowl to mash it easily as the photo shows.)
- Mix the ingredients marked ★ well. Put only a small amount of the red food colouring on the tip of a chopstick and dissolve it in the mixture.
- Add the mixture into the cooked rice, and mash in until sticky. Make sure all of the rice turns pink.
- Divide the rice in half, and wrap the bean paste ball.
- It's done. It looks more authentic with a cherry blossom leaf.
- If you don't add the red food colouring, sakura mochi will be white like the photo, but the taste is same.
It is often eaten in New Year's Ozoni soup or. Cherry blossom season in Japan is one of the most spectacular and beautiful times of the year. This recipe for a traditional sweet made around the Tokyo area uses new-season cherry leaves to encapsulate To make the salt-pickled cherry blossom leaves, wash leaves well under running water. In a large bowl, combine mochi and regular rice. Cherry (Left) & Green Apple (Right).
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