Hello everybody, it’s Jim, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, easy sakura mochi (cherry blossom rice cake) from cooked rice. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
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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.) 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. Sakura mochi is a Japanese dessert that is pink, just like the sakura (cherry blossom flowers) and is made of sweet glutinous rice and filled with a sweet red bean paste.
To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook 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:
- Make ready 1 small 1 rice bowl's worth Hot cooked rice
- Prepare 2 tsp ★Water
- Prepare 2 tsp ★Katakuriko
- Get 2 tsp ★Sugar
- Get 1 pinch ★Salt
- Prepare 1 dash ★Food coloring (red)
- Prepare 40 grams Pureed sweetened bean paste
- Prepare 2 Salted cherry blossom leaves (if you have)
Sakura Mochi (桜餅) is a type of wagashi (Japanese confectionery) made of sweet pink mochi (sweet rice or sometimes called glutinous rice). It's usually filled with sweet red bean paste and wrapped in a salty pickled cherry leaf. Combine the rice and the jam evenly. Wet a surikobi pestle and pound the rice until the size of the grains almost halves.
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.
Combine the rice and the jam evenly. Wet a surikobi pestle and pound the rice until the size of the grains almost halves. Wet your hands to avoid sticking and shape the mochi piece into a ball. mix the water and rice flour together. make sure to add the water a little at a time. mix in the sugar. mix in the flour. mix in a little red food coloring at a time, until you get a nice gentle pink color. Then evenly distribute the chopped flowers over the rice. Press "start" to cook the rice.
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