Simple Mochi

"Simple recipe. You only need a microwave. Very versatile with dough and fillings. Not too sweet either. Here's a small batch which can be multiplied, but if you make more, experiment with the microwave times."
 
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Ready In:
4mins
Ingredients:
4
Serves:
8-10
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ingredients

  • 1 cup mochiko sweet rice flour (glutinous rice flour)
  • 1 cup water
  • 14 cup sugar
  • katakuriko, for dusting (potato starch)
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directions

  • Mix mochiko and sugar in a bowl.
  • Add water and mix thoroughly. (will be watery).
  • Put in a microwaveable dish. Cover with plastic wrap.
  • Microwave on high for 4 minutes. Take off plastic wrap. Cool for a few minutes, if you want. Cut. Serve.
  • Opt. Dust with katakuriko or kinako to prevent mochi from sticking everywhere. If you don't have these, you can just put the mochi on cellophane.
  • Variations for Filling: You can add red bean paste, ice cream, chocolate, etc. in the middle if you want BEFORE you dust. add a teaspoon of filling and pinch edges closed.
  • Variations for Dough: Add a few drops of food coloring into batter for color variation. A few drops of flavoring (strawberry, grape, orange, blueberry, etc.) may also be added. >> For chocolate flavor, stir about 1/4 cup melted chocolate chips into mochi batter before cooking.

Questions & Replies

  1. Is there anything I can use instead of potato starch?
     
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Reviews

  1. I would say my teenage son and I are "Mochi Snobs" except, considering the wildest version of this has all of half a dozen ingredients, there's not much to be snobbish about. At best, Mochi is (let's face it) a mildly sweet, mildly satisfying, rice-based gummy... thing. And at its worst, well, it pretty much gets the same description.<br/><br/>That said, I live near enough to Manhattan's midtown "Korea Town" and we frequent the Asian market there which sells mochi in ever permutation and incarnation imaginable. So we've tasted hundreds of gut-busting pounds of the stuff over time, and decided this holds up and works well in a pinch when you NEED mochi.<br/><br/>We found it too pasty so it's not getting my highest rating. We did it stove top to avoid some of the uncooked aspects most of you had offered as downfalls of this, and I think it helped with the extra heat time (total: 5 or 6 minutes) and mixing. However next time I will double the water to extend the dough's open-time thus giving it more of a chance to really cook through.<br/><br/>A Pam-sprayed ice cube tray makes the perfect interesting bite-sized bits, and freezer time will just help it set that much more quickly.<br/><br/>For a good saturday evening "why not, let's try it" thing, I give it an extra star above the 3 I'd normally grant. Thanks for sharing!
     
  2. This is an awesome recipe for Mochi -- I used Confectioners Sugar instead of Katakuriko for dusting, and it added a bit of sweetness while eliminating the stickiness entirely.
     
  3. Thank you for this recipe! It is so easy and it can be tweaked for anyone's liking. I used coconut in mine after reading it in another recipe. I use 2 parts flour, 2 parts liquid (coconut milk, water, evaporated milk, etc), and 1 part sugar. I also add butter and rum flavoring to mine. Very tasty! It's even easier to microwave in a ceramic casserole dish with a glass lid so there's no messing with/wasting of plastic wrap. The one thing that bothers me is that no matter what I do it still has a floury flavor.
     
  4. I've never made mochi before and it was so simple! Colored it green by just whisking a few drops of green food coloring into the water before adding it to the dry ingredients.
     
  5. Good though I only have one question if you were to double the recipe how long would you microwave them?
     
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Tweaks

  1. Filled the mochi with red bean paste and it was delicious!
     
  2. Epic Recipe. Here's our Tweek. 1 1/2 cup Mochiko 7 teaspoons sugar. A 12 oz can of apple juice concentrate. Microwave 5 minutes in glass bowl. Mix with wooden spoon. Spread out on cornstarch covered table. Cut, shape, sprinkle powdered sugar on them. We also used a 12 oz can lemonade concetrate and about 10 teaspoons sugar.
     
  3. This is an awesome recipe for Mochi -- I used Confectioners Sugar instead of Katakuriko for dusting, and it added a bit of sweetness while eliminating the stickiness entirely.
     

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I'm in high school. I am ridiculously smart and therefore, I make food with my spare time. My recipes are easy to make and as a health freak, MOST of them are healthy. I am also Filipino, but since most Filipino food aren't healthy, I'll only post the ones that are delicious or reasonably healthy. I AM AN AVID HARRY POTTER SUPPORTER. i can also run a mile in 8:00. I hate it when people do not cap the toothpaste tube.
 
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