Recipe: At Home Easy! Simple Sakura Cherry Blossom Mochi

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Easy! Simple Sakura Cherry Blossom Mochi. Sakura mochi is a Japanese dessert that is pink, just like the sakura (cherry blossom flowers) and is made of sweet glutinous rice and filled with a sweet red bean paste. It is wrapped in a pickled sakura leaf which is edible. This is a standard dessert that we like to serve in our household in the springtime.

Easy Sakura Mochi with chewy and sticky rice cake on the outside, and sweet red bean paste filling on the inside!

It's rolled into beautiful pink mochi balls and covered with an edible pickled cherry blossom leaf.

This Japanese dessert recipe is quick to make at home and perfect for celebrating the spring season or other special occasions.

You can have Easy! Simple Sakura Cherry Blossom Mochi using 7 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Easy! Simple Sakura Cherry Blossom Mochi

  1. You need 125 grams of Domyoji-ko.

  2. Prepare 25 grams of Caster sugar.

  3. Prepare 1 dash of Salt.

  4. You need 150 grams of Koshi-an.

  5. You need 190 ml of Water.

  6. You need 10 of Salt-preserved cherry blossom leaves.

  7. Prepare 1 of Red rice yeast powder (or red food coloring).

Great recipe for Easy Sakura-mochi for Cherry Blossom Viewings.

I prepare these sakura-mochi when I feel like eating lots.

As you coat your hands with sugar water to form the mochi, the.

Drain the water from the sakura leaves and blossom, gently pat dry them with a kitchen towel.

Easy! Simple Sakura Cherry Blossom Mochi step by step

  1. Roll the koshi-an into 10 balls..

  2. Soak the cherry blossom leaves in a bowl of water to remove excess salt. (About 10 minutes)..

  3. Add the domyoji-ko, caster sugar and red colored water to a heat resistant bowl, and mix lightly..

  4. Cover with cling film, microwave for about 5 minutes. Then leave to steam for about 10 minutes..

  5. Add salt and mix well. When it has cooled a little, spread out in a long shape on top of a sheet of cling wrap..

  6. Roll up the mochi dough and shape into a cylindrical shape. Unwrap the cling wrap, and cut into 10 even portions with a scraper..

  7. Flatten the mochi dough with your palms, wrap the anko balls, and form them into barrels. Wrap each with a cherry blossom leaf, and they are done..

Remove cling film and wrap a sakura leaf around the mochi.

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Roll up the ends of the cling wrap and mould the mochi in to a ball shape.