I found another anime on Netflix and watched all the episodes in less than a week. It helps that I'm not taking any classes this semester - I'm going to Mississippi for a week and missing a week class would have had dire consequences on my grades.
Anyways, back to anime.
I was watching Fairy Tail not too long ago and realized something. In most of the anime that I watch, the male character is usually struck with a talent for over eating. They usually need it for their Parasitic anti-akuma arm (D. Gray Man), strength for the Kamehameha (Dragon Ball), or to power his inner fire (Fairy Tail). If you are like me, you find yourself craving all the delicious foods these main characters eat on a daily basis. Living in the United States and also, living in the real world, all these foods are sometimes hard to acquire. I decided to not let this stop me and for the past 4 years I have looked for the easiest most delicious recipes for Japanese or Chinese treats to share with the world.
I came upon a recipe for Microwave Dango Mochi about three years ago and I thought this has to be a dud. There is no way I can make this delicious soft sweet treat in the microwave without having it goop all over my kitchen. Well, thank the Mochi Gods that I went against my inhibitions and tried it anyways. It. Was. Perfect. I've never had real authentic Mochi so I don't want to compare it to the real deal, but I am sure a lot of people would agree with me when I say that it's amazing.
Also, for my fellow visual learners, I posted step by step pictures after the recipe!
Warning: Be careful with the hot mochi if you want to keep your fingerprints!
Microwave Dango Mochi Recipe
Ingredients:
- 1 1/2 cups of glutinous rice flour (make sure to get "glutinous" rice flour and not regular rice flour. Regular rice flour will not work)
- 1/4 cup of white sugar
- 1 cup of water
- 2 drops of food coloring
- 1/2 cup of cornstarch (to prevent the mochi from sticking to your hands or cutting board)
- Sweet Red Bean Paste (to fill the mochi with)
- Cutting Board
- Plastic Wrap
- Knife
- Medium Sized Bowl
- Microwave (duh)
- plastic spoon (for stirring. Mochi will stick to metal spoons easier)
- Hands (to shape the mochi)
- Rolling pin (if needed)
Instructions:
1. Combine rice flour, sugar, water, and food coloring in a medium sized bowl and mix well.2. Cover in plastic wrap and make sure the bowl is "sealed" completely.
3. Microwave for two minutes. The mixture looks as if its rising at around a minute and 50 seconds. While the mixture is in the microwave place the cutting board (I used a cookie sheet) on your counter and sprinkle with a generous amount of cornstarch.
4. Remove the bowl from the microwave and stir the mochi. At this point, the mochi is VERY difficult to stir and feels sticky, but make sure you stir it at least a little bit.
5. Place the plastic wrap back on the bowl and microwave for one minute. The mochi will rise (to be your favorite treat and destroy all your other sweet treat families muahahaha).
6.Remove the bowl from the microwave and uncover.
7. Place the mochi on the the cutting board. Cover your hands with corn starch to avoid the mochi from sticking on your hands and it will create a barrier between your fingers and the heat. Spread the mochi as much as possible. The mochi is as hot as molten lava so I use a the rolling pin (or meat mallet...) to help me "roll out" the mochi, but it is very difficult nonetheless.
8. Once flattened out, cut the mochi into various squares and place a small amount of Red Bean Paste in the middle.
9. Grab the square mochi by all its corners and press hard to make the ends stick together. Keep doing this until the under side of the mochi looks like a ball.Or after you pinch the mochi ball closed, roll it around between your hands to make a ball.
10. Display the mochi with the underside facing up to show a perfect round ball.
Title credit goes to Adam Hernandez because he is awesome with names and titles for things!
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