Daifuku 🍓 mochi 草莓大福
I decided to replicate this at home and made a few batches of strawberry mochi (daifuku) at home. Honestly, it is one of the beginner’s friendly desserts and doesn’t require many skills to make a beautiful red bean mochi! If I can do it, you can too!
Ingredients
- 120 g Glutinous rice flour
- 80 g Potato starch
- 450 g Red bean paste
- 180 g Water
- 30 g Sugar
Instructions
(Mochi making)
- Add 120g glutinous rice flour, 80g potato starch and 180g water into a mixing bowl.
- Mix everything until it thickens.
- Cover the surface of the mixing bowl with a cling wrap & microwave it for 2.5 minutes (in total) at full power. Make sure to take ur mixing bowl out from the microwave every 30 seconds and stir it.
- Transfer the mixture out from the bowl onto a large surface (sprinkled with flour to prevent sticking onto the surface).
- Divide your huge mochi mixture into 6 pieces.
Strawberry red bean filling
- Clean the strawberry and slice off the green part.
- Scoop the red bean paste (could be homemade or ready-made) into a round shape.
- Use the tip (bottom) of the strawberry to press it against the red bean ball.
- Slowly mold the red bean paste such that it covers all parts of the strawberry.
Combine!!
- Press the mochi mixture using ur palm to expand it such that it could cover and wrap the whole strawberry red bean fillings.
- Fold 4 sides of the mochi skin and twist it on top when the 4 sides meet to seal it.
- Refrigerate for 15~20 min before u cut it into half for photography purposes!