Ohagi (Bota Mochi)
Ohagi (Bota Mochi)

Hello everybody, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, ohagi (bota mochi). It is one of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Ohagi (Bota Mochi) is one of the most favored of current trending meals on earth. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Ohagi (Bota Mochi) is something that I’ve loved my whole life.

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

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. Take 1 pinch Salt
  4. Take Sweet Azuki Paste *Tsubu-an OR Koshi-an
  5. Get 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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