Hello everybody, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, mochi for the doll's festival. It is one of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Mochi for the Doll's Festival is one of the most favored of recent trending meals in the world. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. Mochi for the Doll's Festival is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They are nice and they look fantastic.
Hinamatsuri is also called Momo no Sekku, which means a festival of peach blossoms. Peach blossoms, shiro-zake (white fermented rice wine) and hishi-mochi (diamond-shaped rice cakes) are placed on the stand with the hina dolls. Hishi-mochi are colored pink representing peach flowers, white representing snow, and green representing new growth. As with all festivals in Japan, rice cakes (mochi) play a significant role in the Doll's Festival.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook mochi for the doll's festival using 5 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Mochi for the Doll's Festival:
- Get 500 grams Rice flour
- Make ready 500 ml Boiling water
- Prepare 1 tiny amount Food coloring (red, yellow, green)
- Take 1 ● Soy sauce and sugar
- Make ready 1 ● Kinako
Hishi Mochi is a treat associated with the Japanese "Girl's Day" festival. Its traditional colors of red (pink), white and green represent health, purity, and the elimination of disaster and misfortune, respectively. The food holds connotations of hopes and well-wishes for children. Hinamatsuri, also known as Doll's Day or Girls' Day, is an annual festival in Japan held to celebrate the health and happiness of female children and femininity in general.
Steps to make Mochi for the Doll's Festival:
- Put rice flour in a bowl and gradually add water, mixing with chopsticks. Switch to kneading the dough by hand (but be careful - it will be hot!).
- Carefully knead the dough as if making bread or mochi. If it's too watery, add a little bit more flour.
- Once it's come together, remove about 1/10 of the dough and split into 3 equal portions. Add a teeny-tiny amount of food coloring to each.
- Form tiny balls out of each of the 3 colored doughs (about the size of toy bullets). Cover the mold with cling wrap.
- Place colored balls in the mold, then cover with white dough. Start with a small amount of dough, then add more if necessary.
- Cover with the remaining cling wrap and push into the mold with your hand until the dough fully fills the mold.
- Place the other half of the mold on top and press down firmly until the excess dough is squeezed out.
- Prepare the steamer. Pour in enough water so that it won't evaporate during cooking. You can use a steam tray as well.
- Remove the plastic wrap and the excess dough, then smooth the molded edges with a finger. Return the excess dough to the bowl.
- Line the steamer with parchment paper and place the mochi molds so that they don't touch. Steam on high heat for 10~15 minutes.
- Place on a cooling rack and quickly rinse with water to cool. Fan to continue cooling. If you sprinkle with water first, it will create a nice glaze.
- While they're fresh out of the steamer, sprinkle soy sauce, sweetened soy sauce, or kinako powder, and enjoy. These are also good if you fry them in soy sauce like fried mochi.
The food holds connotations of hopes and well-wishes for children. Hinamatsuri, also known as Doll's Day or Girls' Day, is an annual festival in Japan held to celebrate the health and happiness of female children and femininity in general. The main tradition associated with the Hina Matsuri doll festival involves mounting an altar covered with a dankake (a red carpet) on which several platforms of hina-ningyō (ornamental dolls) in the traditional court. Hishi-mochi are diamond-shaped rice cakes colored pink, green and white. On Dolls festival, colors are not only to delight people's eyes but also have meanings.
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