Ohagi (Bota Mochi)
Ohagi (Bota Mochi)

Hello everybody, it is me again, Dan, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, ohagi (bota mochi). One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Ohagi (Bota Mochi) is one of the most favored of recent trending meals on earth. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. Ohagi (Bota Mochi) is something which I have loved my whole life. They are nice and they look fantastic.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook ohagi (bota mochi) using 5 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Ohagi (Bota Mochi):
  1. Make ready 2 cups (*180ml cup) Glutenous Short Grain Rice
  2. Take *Note: You can replace 1/2 cup (90ml) of it with regular Short Grain Rice
  3. Prepare 1 pinch Salt
  4. Get Sweet Azuki Paste *Tsubu-an OR Koshi-an
  5. Make ready Kinako (finely ground Roasted Soy Beans) & Sugar *See ‘Method 5’
Instructions to make Ohagi (Bota Mochi):
  1. Wash Rice and place it in the rice cooker. Add water up to the 2-cups-marking. Allow to soak for 30 minutes if you have time.
  2. Add 1 pinch Salt and press ‘COOK’ button to start cooking.
  3. Transfer to a bowl. Using a pestle or something similar, pound the hot rice, wetting the pestle with Water frequently. Stop pounding when the texture is rubbery like Mochi yet you still see grains.
  4. Wet your hands with Water and make 3 x 4cm (or larger) balls, and cover with Sweet Azuki Paste or Kinako Sugar.
  5. How to make Kinako Sugar: Kinako is finely ground Roasted Soy Beans. Mix a same amount of Kinako and Caster Sugar with 1 pinch Salt.
  6. Easy method to cover with Azuki Paste: Spread Azuki Paste thinly on a sheet of plastic food wrap, about twice the size of the rice ball. Place the rice ball and wrap it and cover the rice ball with Azuki Paste evenly.
  7. *Note: Naturally you can do this process without the plastic wrap. Thinly spread Azuki Paste on your palm, place rice ball on it, then cover it around.

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