The Best Gyuuhi (Sweet Rice Cake Dough).
You can cook The Best Gyuuhi (Sweet Rice Cake Dough) using 4 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you achieve it.
Ingredients of The Best Gyuuhi (Sweet Rice Cake Dough)
- It's 50 grams of Mochiko (or shiratam-ko).
- You need 80 grams of Castor sugar.
- It's 100 ml of Water.
- You need 1 of Katakuriko or cornstarch (to knead and shape the dough).
The Best Gyuuhi (Sweet Rice Cake Dough) instructions
- In a microwave-safe bowl, add water little by little to the rice flour, mixing well to prevent lumps. Add sugar and keep mixing..
- Cover with plastic wrap and microwave for 2 minutes. Mix with a wet wooden spatula, and microwave for another minute. The photo shows how it looks after the first 2 minutes in the microwave..
- When the dough is translucent and shiny, moisten the wooden spatula again and use it to spread the dough on a work surface dusted with katakuriko or cornstarch..
- Dust the top of the dough with katakuriko or cornstarch, and spread out with your fingers. The basic gyuuhi is done..
- Cool the dough completely, cut into any shape you like, and twist it or tie it into knots to serve as snacks with green tea. If you cut the dough into 6 to 8 portions, you can use it to make daifuku (mochi dumpling filled with anko)..
- The dough can be wrapped up in plastic wrap and stored in the freezer. It won't become completely hard, so you can cut off as much as you need..
- This is dorayaki with gyuuhi and anko inside..
- Mix the gyuuhi with shiro-an (smooth sweet white bean paste) to make nerikiri, which can be used to make colorful, tender sweets called jo-namagashi such as a nerikiri nightingale. https://cookpad.com/us/recipes/167824-basic-nerikiri-bean-paste-and-rice-dough https://cookpad.com/us/recipes/167806-nerikiri-rice-dough-and-sweet-bean-paste-nightingale.
- Ice cream wrapped in gyuuhi is delicious. See "Soft Ice-Mochi" -..
- Increase the sugar by 20 g to make daifuku dough that won't become hard even when frozen. See "Let's Make Yukimi Daifuku" -. https://cookpad.com/us/recipes/167830-yukimi-daifuku-mochi-dumplings-filled-with-ice-cream.
- Gyuuhi can be used in many other sweet dishes such as anmitsu, ice cream, or kakigouri (shaved ice) to make daifuku, gyuuhi zenzai, or sandwiched in bread with anko as anbata-gyuuhi etc..
