Hokkaido Potato Mochi with Cheese

Name: Hokkaido Potato Mochi with Cheese
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 3 potatoes; 4 spoon (36 g) starch (★); 6 spoon (90 cc) milk (★); to taste salt&pepper; some cheese for pizza (melting cheese); 20 g butter (salted butter); some soy sauce; 5 cm leak (cut in pieces)

KA @kana_from_japan

Tokyo

Potato mochi (Imo-mochi/芋餅) is a local cuisine from Hokkaido, Japan. Because we use starch, it becomes very chewy. My favorite way is to add cheese in the middle of potato mochi. It's really nice to serve hot when the cheese is melting!

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Ingredients

3potatoes
4 spoon (36 g)starch (★)
6 spoon (90 cc)milk (★)
to tastesalt&pepper
some cheese for pizza (melting cheese)
20 gbutter (salted butter)
some soy sauce
5 cmleak (cut in pieces)

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Steps

1

Wash and pear the potatoes. Chop in pieces. Place them in to a bowl, cover it with plastic wrap and heat in the microwave for 6 minutes (500w).
2

Mix starch with milk. Dissolve well until the starch perfectly melts.
3

Mash the potatoes very well. (You can also use strainer to make it a smooth paste)
4

Add the mixture of milk and starch little by little to the mashed potatoes.
5

Divide the mashed potato into five parts.
6

Put some cheese inside each mashed potato and make them balls.
7

Put the pan over middle heat and add butter. Cook potato balls until golden brown. (Get a lid on a pan so that the cheese inside would well melted)
8

Turn over the potato balls and add some soy sauce.
9

Decorate with chopped leeks and finished! Serve hot!!