Mochi Balls : Japanese Rice Cake
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What is Mochi?
Mochi is a small rounded Japanese rice cake made from glutinous rice. Mochi was originally made as offerings for gods at the shrine. They cut it into small pieces and is shared to everyone for good health and fortune.
Mochi in Japanese Tradition
Mochi is a traditional food prepared by Japanese during New Year. Mochi pounding is the biggest event during New Year Celebration. The rice is soaked overnight, then steamed until it became soft. It is pound in a big deep bowl until it's smooth and will be shaped into flat balls by hand.
Mochitsuki
Mochitsuki is the annual event of pounding rice before New Year. It starts the day before new year when the glutinous rice is washed and soaked before pounding
Traditional Mochi Soup
Mochi Soup
The Mochi Soup is called OZONI and is believed that it should be the first meal for Japanese as it gives strength and ensures that a happy year will come.
Mochi Ice Cream
Mochi Ice Cream are small balls of ice cream wrapped in mochi. Mikawaya, a company in the United States, sells mochi of different flavors. You can also buy Mochi Ice Cream in their website Mochi Ice Cream comes in different flavors chocolate, mango, coconut, green tea, coffee, red bean, vanilla, and strawberry What is your FAVORITE Mochi Ice Cream FLAVOR?
Mochi Youghurt Topping
Here are some delicious photos of Frozen Yoghurts from different Yoghurt Companies
The Pinkberry Plain Frozen Yoghurt topped with Mochi bits
Yogen Fruz Matcha Green Tea frozen Yoghurt topped with mochi bits
Red velvet cake batter frozen yoghurt with cookie dough bites, marshmallows, and strawberry mochi
Pomegranate flavor yogurt at Red Mango, with mochi
Yoghurt and Mochi Good Combination??
Mochi can be Cooked and served in Many Ways
At first, I thought that mochi is cooked only boiling and steaming it. But I was wrong!!! I only thought of mochi the boiled/steamed rice balls and also mochi ice cream! When I learned more about Mochi, I found out that Mochi can be cooked in Several Ways.
FRIED MOCHI
Fried Mochi are crispy outside then soft and sticky inside. I have tried some of these and they're really delicious!! But be warned - don't eat too much as there are lots of oil in that!!
FRIED MOCHI WITHOUT OIL
Seriously??!!! Frying without oil? I found this from www.champuru.net. I think I will still like this because first there's no oil and I think the outer part will also be as crunchy as the deep fried mochi.
GRILLED MOCHI
I wonder if the outside part will be also crispy if mochi is grilled. Hmmm will have to try this one sooon!!
MOCHI WITH FRESH FRUITS INSIDE
If you're a fresh fruit lover and you also love mochi, it would be nice if you can make a snack with fruit and mochi together. I have found out that aside from ice cream balls, you can also make fresh fruits as fillings for mochi. Some fruits that can be used as mochi fillings are strawberries, melon, papaya and MORE!!
MOCHI SHAPED AND FILLED WITH DIFFERENT FILLINGS
I found this from starbulletin .com here's the description for this box of mouthwatering mochi.
Top row, from left: Nantu mochi (filled with an, dipped in soy-bean flour),
sweet-potato mochi, traditional white mochi, yaki manju (baked) and tsumami mochi (green, filled with an).
Row 2: Momo (peach) mochi, furusato manju (baked with sweet-potato filling), chi chi mochi (soft, milk-flavored), plum flower (red for good luck, with red azuki-bean filling) and sweet-potato mochi.
Row 3:Plum flower, nantu mochi, azuma manju (baked, topped with walnut), peach mochi, traditional white.
Row 4: Clam (summer specialty), tsumami mochi, pie-crust manju, lilikoi mochi and yaki manju.
Buchi is also fried mochi with sweet red bean paste filling and sesame seeds outside. This is delicious too. There are lots of this here in our place.
Which of the Mochi Variety do you like best?
Mochi Recipes
Quick and Easy Mochi Recipes
Since I have tasted mochi ( specially Mochi Ice Cream) when I was in Singapore. I've always wanted to learn how to make them. Now that I have time do try different recipes, I have searched a lot of recipes and I kept the only the easy to follow recipes. Hope you'll find these recipes easy to follow too!! Enjoy Cooking!!! How to Make Mochi balls
Making Mochi the EAsy Way!!
A Recipe from Wikihow. I didn't know that mochi can be made from glutinous rice flour. I guess I will have to try to make mochi using this ecipe as I don't need to soak the and pound the glutinous rice in order to make mochi!!
Ingredients
- 1 lb Mochiko (glutinous rice flour)
- 2 1/2 cups Sugar
- 1 12oz. can Coconut Milk
- 1 3/4 cups Water
- A Few Drops Food Colouring (preferably red)
- Katakuriko (potato starch) (Cornstarch is also a substitute or variation)
Instructions
Sift a 1lb bag of Mochiko (glutinous rice flour, sometimes called sweet rice flour) into a large bowl.
Add 2 1/2 cups of white sugar.
Add 1 can (12oz.) of unsweetened coconut milk, do not stir.
Add 1 3/4 cups of plain water and a few drops of food colouring. Mix with a balloon whisk until the mixture is lump free.
Preheat the oven to 325 degrees Fahrenheit, gas 4.
Line 3 8-inch circular cake pans with aluminum foil (bottom & sides), grease the foil with oil or spray.
Divide the batter into the 3 cake pans, cover the batter with more greased foil so that the foil is touching the batter.
Bake for 1 hour on the middle shelf of your oven.
Let cool for another hour, then take off the top foil from one of the pans.
Dust a work surface with katakuriko (potato starch) and invert the mochi onto the surface. VERY slowly and carefully peel off the other layer of foil, and be careful because it WILL try to stick.
Cut off the crusts around the edge of the mochi, you can snack on these while you prepare the final product.
Cut the mochi into triangles or squares, and dust each one on the bottom, top and sides with katakuriko. Do this with the rest of the mochi.
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Mochi Ice Cream Recipe
How to Make Mochi Ice Cream?
- Prep Time: 45 minutes
- Total Time: 1 hour
I have found a quick and easy mochi ice cream recipe from House of Japan website. I have tried this recipe and I hope you'll try this too!
Ingredients
- 2 pints ice cream or sherbet
- any flavor
- 2 cups mochiko flour
- 2 cups water
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 cup potato starch or cornstarch
- cupcake liners
Instructions
Using a small scoop, form little balls of ice cream and place them on a wax-paper lined cookie sheet. Freeze them until very hard. The size of the ice cream balls will determine the eventual size of the mochi ice cream so try to make them on the smallish side (about 1 inch balls).
In a small pot, bring the water and sugar to a boil, stirring well. Remove from heat and whisk in the mochiko flour. Blend until smooth. Return over a medium-low flame and cook for about 7-10 minutes, stirring to prevent burning.
Sprinkle potato starch or cornstarch on a clean work surface. Pour on the hot mochi mixture. Allow to cool for about ten minutes. Pinch off a small amount of mochi and roll to form a ball. Then, flatten this ball with your palm. Place a frozen ice cream ball in the center and bring the edges of the mochi up and pinch to seal. Place this in a cupcake liner and return this ball to the freezer immediately. Continue with the rest of the mochi and ice cream balls. The yield will vary depending on the size you make.
You can flavor your mochi to complement the ice cream center, if you like. Add extracts--like vanilla, lemon, strawberry, almond--after the heating stage. You can tint the mochi with food coloring, too. Think holiday flavors like cranberry or pumpkin to customize your mochi ice cream.
Keep some mochi ice cream on hand for last minute guests. If you wrap the mochi ice cream in plastic wrap or store in an air-tight freezer container, it should last about one month. Check for freezer burn if you keep them longer.
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Mochi Soup Recipe
How to Make a Mochi Soup
Mochi Soup is a common dish during New Year celebration in Japan. I have found this recipe from JUSTHUNGRY.COM I would love to try this recipe very soon!! You can find more techniques on how to cook OZONI in the website JUSTHUNGRY.COM
*You can also find there how to make a DASHI STOCK*
Ingredients
- 5 cups of dashi stock
- using plenty of bonito flakes
- 2 Tbs. soy sauce
- 1 Tbs. sake (leave out if you can't use sake)
- 1/2 tsp. salt
- 100g / about 3 oz. dark or light meat chicken
- cut into bite size pieces
- About 200g / 6 oz (a bunch) of dark greens
- such as komatsuna (traditional)
- spinach
- etc. (I used bok choi here)
- 4 mochi cakes
- Pink kamaboko for garnish
Instructions
Heat up the oven to 200°C / 400°F, or use a toaster oven or grill. Grill or bake the mochi cakes until they puff up a bit. They may get lightly browned on top, which is fine.
Wash and chop the greens roughly.
Heat up the dashi if you premade it. Add the soy sauce, sake and salt. Add the greens, and simmer until limp but still bright green. Add the chicken pieces and simmer a few minutes.
Add the mochi and simmer for a couple of minutes until the mochi is soft, but don't let it sit too long or the mochi will turn into a sticky goo.
Serve in miso soup bowls, garnished with a slice of pink kamaboko. Other garnishes you can use: mitsuba, chopped green onions, a sprinkle of sansho pepper, zest of yuzu.
Things you'll need in Making Mochi
What can you say about Mochi??
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Vikki_w
May 5, 2012 @ 11:52 pm | delete
- One of my favorite food, mochiiiiiii.....
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jhdelacruz May 6, 2012 @ 10:58 am | delete
- Yay! Glad you love mochiii tooo! My fav is strawberry mochi
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jhdelacruz May 6, 2012 @ 10:58 am | delete
- Yay! Glad you love mochiii tooo! My fav is strawberry mochi
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jordanmilesbasketballstuff
Mar 7, 2012 @ 6:32 am | delete
- great Mochi lens.. love it!
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- Hey there, glad you liked it :-)H
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