mochi :)

this is totally random but since the blog is sooo unactive, might as well update it abit :)

here is a recipe for mochi (daifuku), the sweet japanese cake.

INGREDIENTS:
1 cup shiratama-ko (glutinous rice flour)
1/4 cup sugar
2/3 cup water
*For filling
2/3 cup water & 1 cup sugar & 1/2 cup dried anko powder, or 1 1/4 cup premade anko ( red bean paste)

could be replaced by ice cream as well i think
*katakuriko (potato starch) for dusting
PREPARATION:
Heat 2/3 cup of water and 1/2 cup of sugar in a small pot. Add 1/4 cup of anko powder and stir well. Cool the anko filling. Make 12 small anko balls and set aside. Put water and sugar in a heat-resistant bowl and mix well.

Add shiratama-ko flour in the bowl and mix well. Put the bowl in microwave and heat the dough for two minutes. Stir the dough. Heat the dough in microwave until the dough inflates. Stir the mochi quickly. Dust a flat pan with some katakuri-ko starch. Also, dust hands with some katakuri-ko. Remove the hot mochi from the bowl to the pan by hands. Dust hands with more katakuri-ko starch and divide the mochi into 12 pieces by hands. The mochi is hot and sticky, so be careful not to burn your hands. Make 12 flat and round mochi. Put a piece of anko filling on a mochi and wrap the anko by stretching mochi. Rounds the daifuku. Repeat the process to make daifuku cakes. *Makes 12 daifuku.

ofcoz.. the smartest way to enjoy it is to buy it at some japanese store!