You are here:About>Food & Drink>Japanese Food> Japanese Desserts / Sweets> Ichigo daifuku recipe - strawberry daifuku - Japanese sweet recipe -
About.comJapanese Food
Ichigo (Strawberry) Daifuku
Ichigo (Strawberry) Daifuku
Photo (c) Setsuko Yoshizuka
At a Glance
Course : Cakes
Type of Prep : Assemble, Heat
Cuisine : Asian, Japanese
Occasion : Birthdays, Party, Picnic, Spring
 
Newsletters & RSSEmail to a friendSubmit to Digg
Suggested Reading

Japanese Sweet/Dessert

Ichigo Daifuku Recipe - Japanese Sweet

From Setsuko Yoshizuka,
Your Guide to Japanese Food.
FREE Newsletter. Sign Up Now!
Ichigo daifuku are Japanese sweet cakes with strawberry and anko fillings.
Japanese Dessert Recipes

Japanese Recipes
Japanese Food Pictures

INGREDIENTS:

  • 1 cup shiratama-ko (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 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 2/3 cup of water and 1/4 cup of sugar in a heat-resistant bowl and mix well. Add shiratama-ko flour in the bowl and mix well. Put the bowl in microwave and heat the dough for 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. Dust hands with more katakuri-ko starch and divide the mochi into 6 pieces by hands. The mochi is hot and sticky, so be careful not to burn your 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 daifuku cakes.
*Makes 6 daifuku cakes.
Anko Recipe
User Reviews Write Review
 All Topics | Email Article | | |
Advertising Info | News & Events | Work at About | SiteMap | Reprints | HelpOur Story | Be a Guide
User Agreement | Ethics Policy | Patent Info. | Privacy Policy©2008 About, Inc., A part of The New York Times Company. All rights reserved.