Easy Sakura Mochi (Cherry Blossom Rice Cake) from Cooked Rice
Easy Sakura Mochi (Cherry Blossom Rice Cake) from Cooked Rice

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Divide the bean paste in half and make balls. Mash the hot cooked rice with a spoon (or similar). Sprinkle a little water if the rice is hard. (I put the rice in a rice bowl to mash it easily as the photo shows.) Mix the ingredients marked ★ well. You can either steam the rice until cooked or cook it with ample water in a rice cooker.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook easy sakura mochi (cherry blossom rice cake) from cooked rice using 8 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Easy Sakura Mochi (Cherry Blossom Rice Cake) from Cooked Rice:
  1. Make ready 1 small 1 rice bowl's worth Hot cooked rice
  2. Prepare 2 tsp ★Water
  3. Make ready 2 tsp ★Katakuriko
  4. Get 2 tsp ★Sugar
  5. Make ready 1 pinch ★Salt
  6. Make ready 1 dash ★Food coloring (red)
  7. Prepare 40 grams Pureed sweetened bean paste
  8. Take 2 Salted cherry blossom leaves (if you have)

It's usually filled with sweet red bean paste and wrapped in a salty pickled cherry leaf. Sakura means cherry blossoms in Japanese and both flowers and leaves are used in Japanese cooking, especially. The sweet mochi is made of pink-colored rice flour and filled with red bean paste (anko). Also on the shelves this year: sakura mochi flavor (cherry blossom rice cake + red bean) and sakura Japanese sake (traditional Japanese sake, or nihonshu, with hints of cherry blossom).

Steps to make Easy Sakura Mochi (Cherry Blossom Rice Cake) from Cooked Rice:
  1. Divide the bean paste in half and make balls. If you have the cherry blossom leaves, soak them in water for about 10 minutes (to desalt) and wash.
  2. Mash the hot cooked rice with a spoon (or similar). Sprinkle a little water if the rice is hard. (I put the rice in a rice bowl to mash it easily as the photo shows.)
  3. Mix the ingredients marked ★ well. Put only a small amount of the red food colouring on the tip of a chopstick and dissolve it in the mixture.
  4. Add the mixture into the cooked rice, and mash in until sticky. Make sure all of the rice turns pink.
  5. Divide the rice in half, and wrap the bean paste ball.
  6. It's done. It looks more authentic with a cherry blossom leaf.
  7. If you don't add the red food colouring, sakura mochi will be white like the photo, but the taste is same.
  8. Ready to serve and ENJOY!

The sweet mochi is made of pink-colored rice flour and filled with red bean paste (anko). Also on the shelves this year: sakura mochi flavor (cherry blossom rice cake + red bean) and sakura Japanese sake (traditional Japanese sake, or nihonshu, with hints of cherry blossom). See recipes for SAKURA (Cherry Blossoms) Pound Cake too. Easy Sakura-mochi for Cherry Blossom Viewings. Easy, Delicious, and Beautiful Sakura Cherry Blossom Mochi.

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