How to Pre-Process and Store Mochi Rice and Make Mochi. Today you will learn how to make Mochi, but before we get started, let me give you a little background behind this delicious treat. Mochi, pronounced [Mo-CHI] is an irresistible treat that can be used in many ways, whether it's Strawberry Daifuku Mochi, Mochi ice cream, etc. Mochi is a Japanese rice cake that is made from mochigome (aka Glutinous rice) which is most of the time sweet.
Roll out the mochi dough and cut into large circles.
Mochi is a Japanese rice cake that is made from steamed white rice or glutinous rice.
It can also be made from steamed brown rice.
You can cook How to Pre-Process and Store Mochi Rice and Make Mochi using 1 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you achieve that.
Ingredients of How to Pre-Process and Store Mochi Rice and Make Mochi
- You need 350 grams of Mochi or sweet short-grain rice.
Alone, mochi is a staple food in Japanese cuisine, but it also acts as an important ingredient in many Japanese foods such as desserts, soups (both savory and dessert types), and hot pot dishes. It can also be grilled, baked or fried. How Mochi is Made Traditionally, glutinous rice is steamed first, then steamed rice is transferred into a Usu (臼), a large Japanese stamp mill, and then it is pounded with a pestle called Kine (杵). This mochi pounding event is called Mochitsuki (餅つき).
How to Pre-Process and Store Mochi Rice and Make Mochi step by step
- Rinse the rice, and soak in water overnight or for half a day..
- Drain the rice into a sieve..
- Put the water-saturated mochi rice - 1 rice cooker cup's worth, about 220 g - in a bag and freeze. This is the storage stage done..
- How to cook the mochi: Put the frozen rice and 100 ml of water in a blender, and puree for 2 to 3 minutes until liquid. It will still be a little grainy..
- It looks like this..
- Put the pureed rice liquid in a heatproof bowl, cover with plastic wrap and microwave for 2 minutes at 730W..
- Microwave for another minute. If it's translucent it's done. Try a bit, and if the rice grains are still hard microwave for another minute. Done..
- Enjoy with kinako (toasted soy bean flour), sesame seeds, anko sweet bean paste and so on..
- Our family recipe for microwaved easy zenzai (anko sweet bean paste soup and mochi),. https://cookpad.com/us/recipes/144322-easy-zenzai-red-bean-and-mochi-soup-in-a-microwave.
- This is kagami-mochi, kind of. (Kagami mochi is a New Year's decoration.) This is just the right size to top with a kumquat..
Glutinous rice is pounded repeatedly until smooth, sticky, and elastic. If you're trying to make Japanese sweets like mochi or dango, there is absolutely no substitute for mochiko or shiratamako. There are other sweet rice flours using long grain rice from other countries, but the textures and flavors are quite different. They are simply not suitable for making Japanese sweets. The flavorings you use to make this Japanese treat palatable can also become flat if you store the mochi in the freezer.
