Sakura Mochi
Sakura Mochi

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Sakuramochi is a Japanese sweet consisting of sweet pink-colored rice cake with a red bean paste (anko) center, and wrapped in a pickled cherry blossom (sakura) leaf. Different regions of Japan have different styles of sakuramochi. Kanto-style uses shiratama-ko (白玉粉, rice flour) to make the rice cake, and Kansai-style uses dōmyōji-ko (道明寺粉, glutinous rice flour). 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.

Sakura Mochi is one of the most favored of recent trending meals in the world. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. Sakura Mochi is something which I have loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.

To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook sakura mochi using 5 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Sakura Mochi:
  1. Prepare 360 ml Mochi rice
  2. Take 16 Sakura leaves preserved in salt
  3. Make ready 2 tbsp Sugar
  4. Prepare 1 Red food colouring
  5. Get 350 grams Store-bought azuki bean paste

Sakura Mochi is a Japanese spring dessert wrapped with a salt-pickled sakura leaf. This Kansai-style sakuramochi has an excellent aroma and the slight pink color gives the dessert an elegant style. Sakuramochi, meaning "cherry blossom mochi," is a confection something like a miniature Japanese crepe. This Kanto variation is composed of a piece of mochi dough wrapped around a dollop of anko and topped with a fragrant sakura leaf.

Steps to make Sakura Mochi:
  1. If the store-bought anko has a lot of liquid, boil it off in a saucepan. Divide the paste into 16 equal pieces and shape into balls.
  2. Rinse 2 cups of mochi rice and drain in a sieve.
  3. Put the sugar in a bowl and mix with a tiny amount of red food colouring.
  4. Put the mochi rice in the rice cooker along with 360 ml water and the sugar and food colouring mixture from Step 3. Mix together and cook as normal.
  5. Once cooked, mash the rice lightly with a rolling pin, etc.
  6. Spread the rice out on a baking tray and divide into 16 equal pieces.
  7. Place 1 part of the rice mixture on top of some cling film and flatten it out. Add a ball of the anko on top and wrap the rice to the center.
  8. Wrap in a sakura leaf and they're ready.

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