How to Pre-Process and Store Mochi Rice and Make Mochi
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My mother used to make mochi like this. I adapted her recipe.
Recipe by Momopanda
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Rinse the rice, and soak in water overnight or for half a day.
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Drain the rice into a sieve.
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Put the water-saturated mochi rice - 1 rice cooker cup's worth, about 220 g - in a bag and freeze. This is the storage stage done.
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How to cook the mochi: Put the frozen rice and 100 ml of water in a blender, and puree for 2 to 3 minutes until liquid. It will still be a little grainy.
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It looks like this.
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Put the pureed rice liquid in a heatproof bowl, cover with plastic wrap and microwave for 2 minutes at 730W.
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Microwave for another minute. If it's translucent it's done. Try a bit, and if the rice grains are still hard microwave for another minute. Done.
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Enjoy with kinako (toasted soy bean flour), sesame seeds, anko sweet bean paste and so on.
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Our family recipe for microwaved easy zenzai (anko sweet bean paste soup and mochi),.
https://cookpad.wasmer.app/us/recipes/144322-easy-zenzai-red-bean-and-mochi-soup-in-a-microwave
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This is kagami-mochi, kind of. (Kagami mochi is a New Year's decoration.) This is just the right size to top with a kumquat.
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