Easy Homemade Mochi: A Taste of Japan for Exotic Food Lovers

Mochi (mochi) is a Japanese dessert that can be easily prepared at home. The taste is very specific, rice. It makes sense to try only for lovers of exotic foods and fans of Japanese cuisine. There are not so many Japanese desserts that can be prepared in European conditions from available products, and sometimes you really want to surprise your guests with a full meal based on this national cuisine... Well, of course, real mochi is not prepared at all like that, it’s just a fake ! But the value of the “microwave mochi” recipe is in its accessibility to us. Using various additives (coconut milk, mirin, green tea) you can change the taste, and natural dyes can change the color. Mochi should be served according to the season. The first recipe I want to show you is New Yearʼs kagami mochi. I think Iʼll add a couple more "designs" for other seasons later.
cook time: 30 min
Caleb Huxley
Easy Homemade Mochi: A Taste of Japan for Exotic Food Lovers

Nutrition Facts (per serving)

178
Calories
42g
Carbs
3g
Protein

Ingredients (5 portions)

Basic:

Sugar 70 g
Water 150 ml
Rice (ideally — ready-made rice starch; You need to choose “sticky” varieties of rice; I took jasmine.) 150 g
Kumquat (for kagami mochi) 5 pc

Recipe instructions

Step 1

Step 1
Rice, water, granulated sugar — the base for a recipe with a neutral taste and white color. You can use green tea instead of water (or add Japanese powder as a dye), supplement with coconut milk, citrus juices, which will tint the dough in different shades.

Step 2

Step 2
Grind the rice in a coffee grinder. (This is for those who donʼt have rice starch or flour.)

Step 3

Step 3
Mix rice flour, sugar and liquid well

Step 4

Step 4
The mixture should be placed in a microwave-safe dish, LOOSELY covered (I used baking paper. Place it in the microwave on maximum for 3 minutes, remove and stir with a spoon. If the mixture already looks like plasticine, proceed to the next step, if it still too liquid — steam it for 1-2 minutes.

Step 5

Step 5
Prepare a bowl of cold water and sprinkle the work surface with starch (you can use regular starch, if you have rice starch, use rice starch). It is advisable to have gloves because the rice mass is very hot.

Step 6

Step 6
Mash the rice mass until it becomes uniform in consistency and plasticine, like plasticine. Wet gloves (or hands) in cold water

Step 7

Step 7
When the mass becomes homogeneous,

Step 8

Step 8
form it into mochi of the intended shape. I decorated mine with candied kumquats because I wanted to emulate New Yearʼs kagami mochi (of course, the real ones are much larger!)

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