Use the Microwave on New Years to Make Easy Just-Pounded Style Mochi With Mayonnaise and Shichimi Pepper

Name: Use the Microwave on New Years to Make Easy Just-Pounded Style Mochi With Mayonnaise and Shichimi Pepper
Yield: 1 serving
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 1 Mochi (rice cake); 1 generous amount Shredded nori seaweed (or rip up regular nori seaweed with your hands); 1 Mayonnaise; 1 Shichimi spice; 1 Soy sauce; 1 to 2 shakes Umami seasoning (optional); 2 sheets the size of the plate Plastic wrap

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When we had mochi during the New Years holidays when I was growing up, my mother always used to make us cheese mochi.
I really wanted to eat it one time and didn't have any cheese, so I substituted mayonnaise. That is how this recipe was born.

You don't have to wrap the mochi cakes with nori seaweed and you only need one plate. This is very easy, so you can even have mochi cake for breakfast!
In addition, by covering the plate with plastic wrap, you don't have the usual bother of cleaning the sticky mochi off the plate so that saves time. This recipe has nothing but positives! For 1 mochi cake's worth. Recipe by yakopuyo

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Ingredients

1 serving

1Mochi (rice cake)
1generous amount Shredded nori seaweed (or rip up regular nori seaweed with your hands)
1Mayonnaise
1Shichimi spice
1Soy sauce
1to 2 shakes Umami seasoning (optional)
2sheets the size of the plate Plastic wrap

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Steps

1

Get the ingredients ready.
2

Cover a plate with a generous piece of plastic wrap that hangs over the edge. Secure around the rim of the plate.
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Put the mochi cake on top, and pour a tablespoon of water over the mochi.
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Microwave for 40 seconds at 600w. Take it out and turn the mochi cake over. (Moisten your chopsticks so the mochi won't stick to it.)
5

Microwave for an additional 10 seconds (approximately) at 600w. (Adjust the microwave time if needed.)
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Discard the water, sprinkle with soy sauce and ajinomoto seasoning, top with mayonnaise, shichimi spice and nori seaweed to finish.
7

Of course, this is delicious wrapped with toasted nori seaweed. I was just too lazy.
8

Stretchy~~~~ It's so tender and delicious, just like just-pounded fresh mochi.
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Once you're done, if you take the plastic wrap off, the plate is clean. You just need to rinse off the plate.
10

is the base recipe for this cheese mochi.
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is a version with kinako (roasted soybean powder), cocoa, and coffee on the moch.