Easy strawberry daifuku. It's made with special glutinous rice flour: Mochiko or Shiratamako. Strawberry ichigo mochi has a sticky and chewy mochi cake layer on the outside, and on the inside, there's a fresh whole strawberry and sweet red bean paste. Wash the strawberries, remove the hull, and pat dry with a paper towel.
Scoop into golf ball sized pieces and place on a baking tray.
When you have fresh strawberry, that's the best choice for daifuku!
Today I will show you the easiest recipe for making special daifuku with tasty strawberry.
You can cook Easy strawberry daifuku using 6 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.
Ingredients of Easy strawberry daifuku
- It's 150 g of Shiratama-ko (sweet rice flour).
- It's 50 g of White sugar.
- You need 190 g of Water.
- You need 300 g of Anko(sweet bean paste).
- You need 10 of Strawberry.
- It's of Proper amont of Cornstarch.
It consists of a strawberry wrapped in red bean paste (a.k.a. anko) and covered in mochi. There are actually many strawberry daifuku recipes online. I personally like to use the one from Cooking With Dog. Today's recipe is a classic strawberry daifuku.
Easy strawberry daifuku instructions
- Remove the calyxes from strawberry. Round of strawberry and anko(30g)..
- Make "Mochi". Mix shiratama-ko, white sugar, and water. Wrap it, and use the microwave to heat up for a minute..
- Stir it frequently until it is melted and smooth. Use the microwave to heat up again. About a minute..
- Stir up until it come to be semitransparent. If it matte white color, heat up for 30 second again..
- Sprinkle cornstarch on cutting board. Put on mochi, and cover with cornstarch. It's hot, be careful..
- Cut mochi into 10 equal parts. Wrap it with Anko while stretching..
- Turn over Mochi, reshape it. It's soft even if it gets cold..
You can make your own red bean paste (recipe here) or use store-bought bean paste for short cut. The other ingredients are simple: shiratamako (glutinous rice flour), sugar, water, and corn starch. And fresh juicy strawberries of course! Mochi, in which a sweet filling is wrapped in glutinous (sticky) rice dough, is a popular dessert snack in Asia. This particular treat is filled with a fresh strawberry, with an optional intermediate layer of sweet red bean paste.
