These are daifuku cakes with strawberry and anko fillings.
Yield: Makes 6 pieces
Ingredients:
- 1 cup shiratama-ko (glutinous rice flour)
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 2/3 cup water
- For filling
- 1/3 cup water & 1/2 cup sugar & 1/4 cup dried anko powder, or 1/2 cup premade anko (sweet red bean paste)
- 6 strawberries
- katakuriko potato starch or corn starch for dusting
Preparation:
Heat 1/3 cup of water and 1/2 cup of sugar in a pan. Add 1/4 cup of anko powder in the pan and stir well.
Set aside. Wash strawberries and remove the calyxes. Wrap a strawberry with about a spoonful of anko
and rounds to make a ball. Make 6 balls. Put shiratamako in a heat-resistant bowl. Mix 2/3 cup of water
and 1/4 cup of sugar in a small bowl. Pour into shiratamako, stirring well. Put the bowl in microwave
and heat the dough for about two minutes. Stir the dough. Heat the dough in microwave until the dough
inflates. Stir the mochi quickly. Dust a flat pan with some katakuri-ko starch. Also, dust hands with some
katakuri-ko. Remove the hot mochi from the bowl to the pan by hands. The mochi is hot and sticky, so
be careful not to burn your hands. Dust hands with more katakuri-ko starch and divide the mochi into 6
pieces by hands. Make 6 flat and round mochi. Put a piece of strawberry and anko filling on a mochi
piece and wrap it by stretching mochi. Rounds the daifuku. Repeat the process to make more
pieces.
