Sweet Mochi Recipe
Servings: 8 servings
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Ingredients
- 1 cup Mochiko
- 3/4 cup water
- 1 1/2 cups sugar
- 3/4 cup water
- Katakuriko potato starch or cornstarch
- Anko sweet red bean paste optional
- Green Tea Ice Cream optional
Instructions
- Mix Mochiko and 3/4 cup water in a glass (or other heat proof) bowl and mix well. Add some more water if it's too dry, 1 Tbsp at a time.
- Steam the Mochiko dough (leaving the dough in the bowl) in a steamer for 20 minutes.
- Meanwhile, put 3/4 cup water and sugar in a medium pot, cook until sugar dissolves to make sugar syrup.
- Transfer the steamed Mochi into a pot and cook at medium low to low heat, adding and mixing in the sugar syrup. Cook until syrup is completely incorporated, mixing constantly, and the Mochi becomes sticky. Take time and be careful not to burn it.
- Take the hot Mochi out from the pot onto a sheet pan liberally dusted with cornstarch. Shape and cut as you like.
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Notes
Sweet Mochi is yummy as is, but you may want it to be even fancier. Wrap Anko balls with thinly stretched Mochi to make Daifuku Mochi. Or, cut small pieces and top over green tea ice cream.