I had never imagined I would be making mochis for fun as I'm really not that patient, not good crafting and also, mochi actually sounds like a complicated thing to make. All that just because I didn't know how to make mochi and I didn't know there's actually a speedy way to make it easy peasy Japanesey like this till I found one recipe I have been following and dang, it works!! Yes, delicious too!!!
Mochi is a Japanese rice cake made of glutinous rice, and sometimes other ingredients such as water, sugar, and cornstarch. The rice is pounded into paste and molded into the desired shape.
Ingredients:
There are a few main ingredients here to make this basic mochi. I have just been adjusting and being a bit creative with it like this OREO mochi here... I think that's why it's fun! Make it yours!
The mochi dough
- 75 g of glutinous rice flour
- 25 g of sugar (I use brown sugar which affects the color of the dough)
- 4 ground OREO shells
- 100 ml of milk
The mochi filling
- 4 ground OREO cookies
- 4 teaspoons of cold whipped cream
Make a Mochi filling
- Mix ground OREO cookies with cold whipped cream.. done! (Told you it's easy peasy Japanesey #lol)
Make a Mochi dough
Mix glutinous rice flour with sugar and milk. Ground OREO shells if you want but totally not a must.
Put in a microwave oven of 30 seconds, take it out and mix it around
Put in a microwave oven of 30 seconds, take it out and mix it around once more
Put in a microwave oven of 15 seconds, take it out and mix it around
Put in a microwave oven of 15 seconds, take it out and mix it around once more
It's going to get more and more like a dough every time you heat it up and mix it around.
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To not make a mess...
- prepare a surface to knead the dough with corn starch that I actually use just the same glutinous rice flour.
- Place the whole dough on it and sprinkle some more flour so it doesn't stick on your hands when kneading it
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Make it the shapes you like
- Divide the dough equally to the amount and sizes you'd like. make it thin! You love thin dough and more filling, don't you? Me too!!
- Fill in some filling and make it the shape you like. *It's normally a really round ball but I found that quite hard to make so I just go with the D shape :D
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Brush off the excess powder
- ditto!
Finished mochi
- The finished mochis look something like this but shouldn't have that much flour on it. I wish I had a proper brush to brush all the excess flour off :/
My mochi is yummy!
Either enjoy eating them right away or put them in the refrigerator or freezer for a bit depends on the texture you like. I like them all.
Super soft and fluffy if we don't refrigerate them. Quite refreshing if we just refrigerate them for a bit. Delicious mochi ice-cream if you freeze them!
Bon Appetit!
Thanks!