I like this Taiwainese method for making mochi. I used mochida flour but any glutinous rice flour works. The recipe is just mochi, oil, sugar steamed then rolled in some kind of coating like peanuts or ground sesame seeds.
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Ingredients
- 1 cup mochi flour
- 3/4c cane sugar
- 3/4c water
- 1T vegetable oil
- honey roasted peanuts or black sesame ground into pebbles
Steps
First Step
- mix mochi flour and sugar whisk together
- add 3/4c water and 1T vegetable oil whisk until smooth
- bring large pot with small amount of water to a boil
- steam the mochi mixture for 15m covered
- crush peanuts until small pebbles
- mix ground black sesame seeds with small amount of cane sugar
- place both in small plates
- with rice paddle stir and mix mochi
- steam for another 5m until no longer opaque
- remove mochi and mix until thickets
- create small smalls of mochi rolling on plates
- eat same day for best or can wrap in plastic wrap leave out
