Easy Ohagi and Botamochi Rice Cakes
Easy Ohagi and Botamochi Rice Cakes

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Ohagi or Botamochi is one of those special foods we enjoyed during spring and autumn equinoxes every year. They are sweet rice balls filled or coated with You've probably noticed that I keep calling these sweet rice balls with two names - Ohagi and Botamochi. That's because we call these rice.

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To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook easy ohagi and botamochi rice cakes using 11 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Easy Ohagi and Botamochi Rice Cakes:
  1. Take 500 grams ☆Plain cooked rice
  2. Prepare 3 tbsp ☆Sugar
  3. Make ready 2 tbsp ☆Hot water
  4. Take 1 dash ☆Salt
  5. Take 240 grams Sweetened bean paste (Store-bought, divide into 6)
  6. Make ready Matcha kinako
  7. Prepare 1 tsp Matcha
  8. Make ready 1 tbsp Kinako
  9. Make ready 1 tsp Sugar
  10. Get White sesame seeds
  11. Take 2 tbsp White sesame seeds

Glutinous rice is a sticky, often sweet rice grown in Southeast Asia. It is called glutinous not because it contains gluten, but due to its stickiness. My mother and my grandmother always made these at home. Homepage > Recipes > Rice Recipes > Ohagi Recipe (Japanese Autumn Dessert Pounded Rice Wrapped with Sweet Bean Paste

Steps to make Easy Ohagi and Botamochi Rice Cakes:
  1. Put ingredients marked ☆ in a freezer bag and knead well. Divide into 6 pieces, and form into barrel shaped rice balls.
  2. Spread bean paste over plastic wrap, and put the rice ball on it. Wrap the rice ball with the bean paste.
  3. Make 6 ohagi rice cakes covered with the bean paste. Leave 2 of them as they are. Sprinkle matcha kinako powder or white sesame seeds on the others.
  4. Sprinkle kinako powder on two rice cakes.
  5. Sprinkle white sesame seeds on two rice cakes.
  6. It is convenient to use a mold for making barrel shaped rice balls. You can get this from a 100 yen shop.
  7. These are the variations of this recipe with different toppings.

We are making Japanese autumn dessert, Ohagi also known as Botamochi in spring. The pounded rice is still soft. Ohagi, otherwise konwn as botamochi, is basically a mochi rice ball wrapped in anko (a kind of Japanese sweet red bean paste). This is the simple traditional way of making them. As a finishing touch, you can cover them with various ingredients such as sesame seeds and matcha powder.

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