Today we are making a popular Japanese dessert - red bean daifuku mochi.
It really isn't difficult to make and you only need simple ingredients.
Let's start!
We are going to cook some glutinous rice flour over low heat, this should take a few minutes.
Now set this aside and we will move on to making the mochi.
In a large bowl, mix in the ingredients shown above.
I used soy milk for my mochi but you can opt for regular milk if you want.
Stir well.
Please pay attention to the consistency. As shown, the mixture should have a creamy texture, slightly more on the thin side.
A thicker consistency will result in more chewy and firm texture for the mochi.
(Please follow my measurements closely to get the right consistency.)
Now, transfer the mixture into a bowl that fits into your steamer.
We will steam this for around 15 minutes.
During this time, you can come back to check the mochi mixture and stir it in the centre to make it cook faster.
Take out the bowl and give the cooked mochi mixture a mix (let it cool for a minute if it's too hot to touch).
Mix in butter - the residual heat from the mochi mixture will melt it and mix smoothly.
Knead it into a smooth round ball.
I am splitting the mochi mixture in half and mixing in some matcha powder.
So half will be plain flavour mochi and the other half will be matcha flavour mochi.
Just knead a small amount of matcha into the mochi mixture and keep adding more until it becomes light green.
If you don't have matcha powder, the plain mochi is delicious on its own too. We will be adding red bean paste anyway.
We already halved the mixture earlier when adding the matcha, so now split each into 4
(8 mochi in total)
Flatten the mochi mixture in the cooked glutinous rice flour from earlier and fill the centre with sweet red bean paste.
Fold the opposite sides in and keep pinching the edges toward the centre to form a round ball
Add more flour if needed.
I am using store bought red bean paste - you can find this in any Asian supermarket.
Repeat this for all the mochi.
And that's it!
Enjoy this Japanese dessert with a cup of warm green tea.
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