Sakuramochi

and the west side such as Kansai uses for batter.

Recipe

This recipe is for making Western-style sakuramochi. Serves 8.

Ingredients

*3/4 cup glutinous rice flour
*1/3 cup sugar
*1 cup water
*3/4 cup red bean paste
*red food coloring (optional)
*8 sakura leaves pickled in salted water

Preparation

Wash pickled sakura leaves and dry. Boil water in a pan. Mix glutinous flour in the water. Cover the pan with a lid and leave it for 5 minutes. Place a wet cloth in a steamer and put the dough on the cloth. Steam the dough for about 20 minutes over medium heat. Remove the steamed dough to a bowl. Mash the dough slightly with a wooden pestle, mixing sugar into the dough. Dissolve a little bit of red food color in some water. Add some of the red water in the dough and mix well. Divide the pink mochi into 8 balls. Flat each mochi ball by hands and place red bean paste filling on the dough. Wrap the filling with mochi and rounds by hands. Wrap each mochi with a sakura leaf.

ee also

*Hanabiramochi
*Hwajeon
*Japanese tea ceremony