How to Make Ultimate Ohagi (Bota Mochi)

Hey everyone, it is Brad, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, ohagi (bota mochi). One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Ohagi (Bota Mochi) is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods on earth. It is appreciated by millions daily. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. Ohagi (Bota Mochi) is something that I have loved my whole life. They are nice and they look fantastic.

To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have ohagi (bota mochi) using 5 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Ohagi (Bota Mochi):

1. Make ready 2 cups (*180ml cup) Glutenous Short Grain Rice
2. Make ready *Note: You can replace 1/2 cup (90ml) of it with regular Short Grain Rice
3. Get 1 pinch Salt
4. Take Sweet Azuki Paste *Tsubu-an OR Koshi-an
5. Prepare Kinako (finely ground Roasted Soy Beans) & Sugar *See ‘Method 5’

Steps 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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