Sakura Mochi – A Recipe Passed from Mother to Daughter.

You can cook Sakura Mochi – A Recipe Passed from Mother to Daughter using 5 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Sakura Mochi – A Recipe Passed from Mother to Daughter

1. Prepare of Uncooked mochi rice.
2. Prepare of Sugar.
3. It’s of Sweet red bean paste.
4. You need of Food colouring (red).
5. It’s of leaves Salt preserved cherry leaves.

Sakura Mochi – A Recipe Passed from Mother to Daughter step by step

1. Rinse the sweet rice. Drain in a sieve..
2. Dissolve red food colouring in 350 ml of water. Soak the rice in the water for 30 minutes. Cook the rice in the rice cooker..
3. Make balls from the bean paste..
4. Immerse the cherry blossom leaves briefly in water (to remove the salt). Pat dry..
5. When the rice cooker has finished cooking, let it rest for 10 minutes to steam the rice. Add sugar, and mix while grinding the rice slightly..
6. When the rice has cooled a bit, wrap in the bean paste, then fold a cherry blossom leaf over the rice cake. (It will be easier if you flatten the rice between plastic wrap.).