"Matcha strawberry red bean Mochi"
Strawberry Red Bean Matcha Mochi
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This spring dessert is a soft and chewy matcha mochi package wrapped around sweet bean paste and juicy strawberries. The light sweet earthy taste of the matcha and bean pastes pairs well with the juicy slight sour taste of the strawberries.
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Serves or Makes: 12
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Red Bean Paste
ingredients
- 1 cup red beans, soaked overnight, then drained
- 3 cups water
- 1/4 cup sugar
Matcha Mochi
ingredients
- 1 1/2 cups glutinous rice flour
- 1/4 sugar
- 2 teaspoons matcha powder
- 1 cup water
- 1/3 cup cornstarch
- 12 strawberries
Method
Step 1
Drain soaked red beans, add water in a pot along with the beans. Cook beans until soft. About 1 hour. Smash beans with a spatula. Add in sugar and heat over low to cook off extra water until form a paste texture. Keep stirring during the process. Transfer beans paste to a food processor and process until smooth. Wrap with plastic wrap and keep in the fridge for 2 hours before using.
Step 2
Combine the rice flour, matcha powder, sugar in a microwave safe mixing bowl. Whisk it well. Add in water and mix until combined
Step 3
Put the bowl into a microwave, heat it up for 1 minute. Take the bowl out and stir the mixture around with a heatproof spatula. Back into the microwave and heat it up for 1 min. Remove the bowl from the microwave. Keep stirring with the heatproof spatula, until it thickens and comes together into one smooth
Step 4
Lightly flour work surface with cornstarch. Put the mochi on top (Put some starch on your hands to prevent sticking) Cut the mochi into 12 pieces. Flatten the mochi into a circle. (Feel free to use more corn flour if needed)
Step 5
Wrap the strawberries with red bean paste. Put some starch on hands. Then place flatten mochi dough and put the covered strawberry on top of it (with the tip facing down) Wrap it with pinching the bottom closed