Easy Sakura-mochi using a Rice Cooker
Easy Sakura-mochi using a Rice Cooker

Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, easy sakura-mochi using a rice cooker. One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Flatten the rice surface in the cooker and divide it into the desired number of sakura-mochi. Moisten your hands and wrap the portioned bean paste with the portioned rice. Wrap the rice with cherry leaves. Preparing the anko the previous day will make it easier to handle.

Easy Sakura-mochi using a Rice Cooker is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It is appreciated by millions daily. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. They are nice and they look fantastic. Easy Sakura-mochi using a Rice Cooker is something which I’ve loved my whole life.

To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have easy sakura-mochi using a rice cooker using 6 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Easy Sakura-mochi using a Rice Cooker:
  1. Prepare 700 grams Mochi rice
  2. Get 3 tbsp Sugar
  3. Take 1 enough to coat the tip of a toothpick Red food colouring
  4. Get 360 ml Water
  5. Get 20 Salted and preserved cherry leaves
  6. Make ready 300 grams Sweetened adzuki bean paste

Place ⅙ of sweet rice and spread it into a rectangular shape. Drain the rice, and add water and food coloring. Thoroughly soaking the sticky rice will help to make the soft and delicious mochi. Drain and cook it with a regular amount of water.

Steps to make Easy Sakura-mochi using a Rice Cooker:
  1. Rinse and clean the mochi rice well. Put it in a rice cooker. Fill the cooker with water up to the two-cup mark. Stir in a very tiny bit of red food colouring and 3 tablespoons of sugar. Let sit for about 30 minutes then cook the rice.
  2. Cook the rice on regular setting. Divide the anko into 20 portions and shape each into balls. Rinse the cherry leaves quickly and drain.
  3. After cooking the rice stir and roughly mash. Flatten the rice surface in the cooker and divide it into the desired number of sakura-mochi.
  4. Moisten your hands and wrap the portioned bean paste with the portioned rice. Wrap the rice with cherry leaves.
  5. Preparing the anko the previous day will make it easier to handle.
  6. [How to make anko] For moderately sweetened koshi-an: Ingredients: 250 g adzuki beans and 200 g sugar (the basic ratio is 1:1)
  7. Put 250 g of adzuki beans into a pressure cooker with twice the amount of water. Bring to a boil and drain over a colander to remove the bitterness.
  8. Return the beans to the pressure cooker with three-times the amount water and cook over high heat until the pressure gauge is raised. Reduce the heat to low and cook for 15 minutes. Turn off the heat and let sit until the pressure is released.
  9. Blitz the content of the pressure cooker in a food processor until smooth.
  10. Transfer the contents to a sauce pan and cook over a low heat to evaporate off the excess moisture. Turn off the heat when the texture is to your liking. It will stiffen once it cools.
  11. Tip for Step 1 Add the food colouring before adding the sugar. That way, if the colour is too strong, you can still add more mochi rice.

Thoroughly soaking the sticky rice will help to make the soft and delicious mochi. Drain and cook it with a regular amount of water. Place the rice and water into a rice cooker. Cook the rice according to the "white rice" setting on the rice cooker. When the rice has finished cooking, evenly pour the seasoned rice vinegar all over the rice.

So that is going to wrap this up with this special food easy sakura-mochi using a rice cooker recipe. Thanks so much for your time. I am confident you will make this at home. There is gonna be interesting food in home recipes coming up. Remember to save this page on your browser, and share it to your family, friends and colleague. Thank you for reading. Go on get cooking!