Recipe: Yummy Japanese Mochi Rice Cake Gratin

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Japanese Mochi Rice Cake Gratin. Great recipe for Japanese Mochi Rice Cake Gratin. I was trying to come up with ways to use mochi cakes, and this is what I created. The baking time in your toaster oven will probably be different from mine, so please check on the gratin while it's cooking and adjust the time.

Mochi is a Japanese rice cake that is made from steamed white rice or glutinous rice.

It can also be made from steamed brown rice.

Alone, mochi is a staple food in Japanese cuisine, but it also acts as an important ingredient in many Japanese foods such as desserts, soups (both savory and dessert types), and hot pot dishes.

You can have Japanese Mochi Rice Cake Gratin using 9 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Japanese Mochi Rice Cake Gratin

  1. You need 4 of Mochi rice cakes (I used round mochi).

  2. Prepare 2 of to 3 Wiener sausages.

  3. Prepare 2 slice of Melting type cheese.

  4. Prepare 2 of sheets Seasoned nori seaweed.

  5. Prepare 1 of Panko.

  6. It’s 5 tbsp of ☆Mayonnaise.

  7. You need 3 tbsp of ☆Milk.

  8. It’s 2 tbsp of ☆Sake.

  9. You need 1 tbsp of ☆Miso (I used awase miso).

It can also be grilled, baked or fried.

In Japanese cuisine, there are many types of desserts made of rice.

A favorite, especially among children, is chi chi dango (sometimes spelled as chichi dango), a bite-sized mochi (rice cake) dessert that is pillowy soft and sweetened with sugar and coconut milk then baked in the oven.

A fun fact: Mochi (餅, もち) is often pronounced as [MO-chi] in English, but we actually pronounce it in Japanese.

Japanese Mochi Rice Cake Gratin step by step

  1. Mix together all of the ☆ ingredients to make the mayonnaise-miso sauce..

  2. Cut the mochi into easy to eat pieces and lay them in a gratin or shallow casserole dish. If the mochi cakes are frozen, defrost naturally or thaw in the microwave, and then cut them up..

  3. Microwave for 1 minute at 600 W to soften the mochi..

  4. Lightly toast the wiener sausages in the toaster oven. Once they have a nutty fragrance, cut into easy to eat pieces..

  5. Place the wiener sausages in the gratin dish or casserole, and top with the mayonnaise-miso sauce..

  6. Sprinkle on the melting cheese and cover completely with panko to make the surface crispy..

  7. Bake for 5 minutes in the toaster oven at 1300 W. When it begins to lightly brown and bubble, its finished. Optionally scatter with flavored seaweed..

  8. This is a main dish type gratin version, with chicken and white onion

https://cookpad.com/us/recipes/150397-mayonnaise-and-miso-gratin.

Mochi is Japanese rice cake made of mochigome (糯米), a short-grain glutinous rice*.

It's naturally white, sticky, elastic, and chewy.

It tastes like rice without filling or coating, but mochi is all about the texture.

Cover with the ingredients, scatter with cheese, and bake in the toaster-oven until the cheese melts and browns.

Japanese glutinous rice or sweet rice (known as mochigome もち米 or mochi rice), is another type of short-grain cultivar of Japonica rice.