For Ohigan and Obon: Not So Sweet Ohagi

Name: For Ohigan and Obon: Not So Sweet Ohagi
Yield: 32 servings
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 700 grams Mochi rice; 700 grams Medium-grain rice (regular Japanese type rice); 500 grams Adzuki beans; 500 grams Sugar (brown or white sugar); 1 dash Salt

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If you prepare the sweet bean paste and rice ahead of time, it'll be easy to prepare: just shape using the tea towel. There should be just enough rice and sweet bean paste to go together perfectly, so there shouldn't be leftovers or not enough bean paste to go around. If you add non-glutinous rice, these won't harden as much as they would if they just had glutinous rice. You can store these in the freezer. Recipe by umemodoki

This was passed down to my by my mother!

cookpad.japan @cookpad_jp

This was passed down to my by my mother!

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Ingredients

32 servings

700 gramsMochi rice
700 gramsMedium-grain rice (regular Japanese type rice)
Sweet red bean paste:
500 gramsAdzuki beans
500 gramsSugar (brown or white sugar)
1 dashSalt

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Steps

1

For making the anko (sweet red bean paste), refer to. Mold the completed paste into 32 50 g balls.
https://cookpad.wasmer.app/us/recipes/143833-homemade-tsubu-an-chunky-sweet-azuki-bean-paste

Homemade Tsubu-an - Chunky Sweet Azuki Bean Paste
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Combine the glutinous and regular rice together and wash, and place in a sieve for 30 minutes. Cook the combined rice with an amount of water that's between what you'd use to cook regular rice and what you'd use to cook glutinous rice.
3

Immediately mash the rice lightly with a wooden pestle coated with salt water (Mashing it lightly so that you can still see individual rice grains is called "hangoroshi," or "mashing it half to death,") Dip your hands in water, and form the rice into 32 barrel shaped-balls.
4

Spread out a moistened and well-wrung out tea towel. Place a ball of bean paste on top and flatten. Place a ball of rice over, and use the towel to mold the bean paste over the rice and squeeze into a ball.
5

If you want to make just 20 ohagi, you can make them the same way with the amounts indicated in parentheses ( ).