Small Sakura Mochi

Name: Small Sakura Mochi
Yield: 15 servings
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 5 blossoms Salt-preserved sakura blossoms; 40 grams + 40 grams Shiratamako; 20 grams Joshinko; 16 grams Sugar; 4 grams Trehalose; 95 ml Water; 1 tiny bit Red food coloring; 120 to 150 grams An of your choice; 1 for finishing Preserved sakura blossom leaves or salted sakura blossom; 1 Mochiko flour or katakuriko

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I wanted to make my own sakura mochi this year.

The mochi dough is not that sweet.
Use the adzuki bean paste of your choice. You can also add chopped sakura leaves to shop-bought adzuki bean paste. (Use 2 to 3 leaves for 150 g of paste.)
If you wrap sakura bean paste with mochi, the resultant sakura mochi will have a beautiful pink colour as in the top photo. Recipe by Makunouchi

I wanted to make my own sakura mochi this year.

cookpad.japan @cookpad_jp

I wanted to make my own sakura mochi this year.

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Ingredients

15 servings

5blossoms Salt-preserved sakura blossoms
40 grams+ 40 grams Shiratamako
20 gramsJoshinko
16 gramsSugar
4 gramsTrehalose
95 mlWater
1tiny bit Red food coloring
120to 150 grams An of your choice
1for finishing Preserved sakura blossom leaves or salted sakura blossom
1Mochiko flour or katakuriko

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Steps

1

Rinse the preserved sakura leaves and blossoms and soak in clean water to remove the saltiness. Drain the blossoms well which you are going to add to the mochi dough. Separate the flowers from the stems.
2

Shape the anko into small balls. To make regular-sized ones, take 20 to 25 g of anko for each, and take 8 g for small-sized ones.
3

The sakura mochi pictured on top has homemade sakura-an.You could also use the store-bought variety.
4

After removing the saltiness from the sakura leaves, chop finely and add to the anko. You can enjoy the nice sakura flavour in the adzuki bean paste easily in this way.
5

Put the shiratamako, joshinko, sugar and trehalose in a bowl. Add the food colouring dissolved in water. Mix well with chopsticks.
6

Cover the bowl with cling film loosely and microwave for 1 and half minutes. Remove the bowl from the microwave and mix well with a heat-proof plastic spatula. Microwave for another 30 seconds and mix again.
7

Microwave for another 30 seconds and mix again. If necessary, microwave for another 30 seconds...until the mixture is elastic and shiny. It will form a dough.
8

Put the mochi dough onto a work surface dusted with mochitoriko flour. Divide the dough into 5 portions and then divide each into 3 portions.
9

Dust your fingers and shape the portioned dough into a flat round with your fingers (make the centre thicker). Wrap the adzuki bean paste with a piece of dough and it is done. Make them pretty.
10

This is one of 15 sakura mochi. They're so small. Try your best not to eat them all before serving them to other people.
11

This is a regular sized one (a 1/5 portion). I added chopped sakura leaves to the aduki bean paste.
12

Here are 'Sakura Strawberry Daifuku'. These are particularly popular with girls.
13

Look how pretty they are!