Hello everybody, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, easy ohagi and botamochi rice cakes. One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Wash the mochi rice right before you cook. Ohagi or Botamochi is one of those special foods we enjoyed during spring and autumn equinoxes every year. They are sweet rice balls filled or coated with You've probably noticed that I keep calling these sweet rice balls with two names - Ohagi and Botamochi.
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To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook easy ohagi and botamochi rice cakes using 11 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Easy Ohagi and Botamochi Rice Cakes:
- Make ready 500 grams ☆Plain cooked rice
- Make ready 3 tbsp ☆Sugar
- Take 2 tbsp ☆Hot water
- Make ready 1 dash ☆Salt
- Make ready 240 grams Sweetened bean paste (Store-bought, divide into 6)
- Prepare Matcha kinako
- Get 1 tsp Matcha
- Make ready 1 tbsp Kinako
- Make ready 1 tsp Sugar
- Prepare White sesame seeds
- Make ready 2 tbsp White sesame seeds
It is called glutinous not because it contains gluten, but due to its stickiness. Ohagi and Botamochi are traditional Japanese sweet dumplings for Higan, a public holiday in Japan. Higan happens in spring around the vernal equinox and Ohagi and Botamochi are both sweet and delicious and easy to make in your own kitchen. There are really three different ways to make Ohagi.
Steps to make Easy Ohagi and Botamochi Rice Cakes:
- Put ingredients marked ☆ in a freezer bag and knead well. Divide into 6 pieces, and form into barrel shaped rice balls.
- Spread bean paste over plastic wrap, and put the rice ball on it. Wrap the rice ball with the bean paste.
- Make 6 ohagi rice cakes covered with the bean paste. Leave 2 of them as they are. Sprinkle matcha kinako powder or white sesame seeds on the others.
- Sprinkle kinako powder on two rice cakes.
- Sprinkle white sesame seeds on two rice cakes.
- It is convenient to use a mold for making barrel shaped rice balls. You can get this from a 100 yen shop.
- These are the variations of this recipe with different toppings.
My mother and my grandmother always made these at home around this time of year - I love their not-too-sweet stickiness. Ohagi, otherwise konwn as botamochi, is basically a mochi rice ball wrapped in anko (a kind of Japanese sweet red bean paste). This is the simple traditional way of making them. As a finishing touch, you can cover them with various ingredients such as sesame seeds and matcha powder. Also known as botamochi, ohagi are sweet rice balls made with glutinous rice.
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