Small Sakura Mochi
Small Sakura Mochi

Hello everybody, it’s Jim, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, small sakura mochi. One of my favorites. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Sakura Mochi (桜餅) is a type of wagashi (Japanese confectionery) made of sweet pink mochi (sweet rice or sometimes Then I broke the grains into smaller bits and pieces by pounding the sweet rice. Chewy mochi with sweet anko filling is simply delectable! Mix in the aroma of cherry blossom leaves and the experience is simply amazing!

Small Sakura Mochi is one of the most favored of recent trending meals on earth. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions daily. They are nice and they look fantastic. Small Sakura Mochi is something that I have loved my entire life.

To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook small sakura mochi using 10 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Small Sakura Mochi:
  1. Make ready 5 blossoms Salt-preserved sakura blossoms
  2. Take 40 grams + 40 grams Shiratamako
  3. Prepare 20 grams Joshinko
  4. Prepare 16 grams Sugar
  5. Make ready 4 grams Trehalose
  6. Take 95 ml Water
  7. Make ready 1 tiny bit Red food coloring
  8. Make ready 120 to 150 grams An of your choice
  9. Prepare 1 for finishing Preserved sakura blossom leaves or salted sakura blossom
  10. Get 1 Mochiko flour or katakuriko

It is filled with red beans paste and a small piece of burdok root. Traditional Sakura Mochi is shaped differently according to whether you're in the western Kansai region around Osaka or in the Kanto region around Tokyo, and the image on the new Kit Kat. A smaller, very cute Sakura Mochi: the coloure mochi contains anko and is presented inside an edible cherry tree leaf. SIMPLE RECIPE This recipe is for making Western-style sakuramochi.

Steps to make Small Sakura Mochi:
  1. Rinse the preserved sakura leaves and blossoms and soak in clean water to remove the saltiness. Drain the blossoms well which you are going to add to the mochi dough. Separate the flowers from the stems.
  2. Shape the anko into small balls. To make regular-sized ones, take 20 to 25 g of anko for each, and take 8 g for small-sized ones.
  3. The sakura mochi pictured on top has homemade sakura-an.You could also use the store-bought variety.
  4. After removing the saltiness from the sakura leaves, chop finely and add to the anko. You can enjoy the nice sakura flavour in the adzuki bean paste easily in this way.
  5. Put the shiratamako, joshinko, sugar and trehalose in a bowl. Add the food colouring dissolved in water. Mix well with chopsticks.
  6. Cover the bowl with cling film loosely and microwave for 1 and half minutes. Remove the bowl from the microwave and mix well with a heat-proof plastic spatula. Microwave for another 30 seconds and mix again.
  7. Microwave for another 30 seconds and mix again. If necessary, microwave for another 30 seconds…until the mixture is elastic and shiny. It will form a dough.
  8. Put the mochi dough onto a work surface dusted with mochitoriko flour. Divide the dough into 5 portions and then divide each into 3 portions.
  9. Dust your fingers and shape the portioned dough into a flat round with your fingers (make the centre thicker). Wrap the adzuki bean paste with a piece of dough and it is done. Make them pretty.
  10. This is one of 15 sakura mochi. They're so small. Try your best not to eat them all before serving them to other people.
  11. This is a regular sized one (a 1/5 portion). I added chopped sakura leaves to the aduki bean paste.
  12. Here are 'Sakura Strawberry Daifuku'. These are particularly popular with girls.
  13. Look how pretty they are!

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