Easy 3-Color Ohagi
- 180 ml Mochi rice
- 190 ml Water
- 1 pinch Salt
- 200 grams Readymade tsubu-an (chunky sweet bean paste) and koshi-an (smooth sweet bean paste)
- 1 tbsp Kinako
- 1 tsp Sugar
- 1 pinch Salt
- 1 1/2 tbsp Black sesame seeds
- 1 tsp Sugar
- Rinse the rice, drain and put into a pot.
- Add the specified amount of water, and leave to soak for about 20 minutes.
- While the rice is soaking...
- Mix the ingredients marked together to make the kinako coating for the ohagi.
- Make the black sesame coating...
- Grind up the black sesame seeds well in a grinding bowl (suribachi).
- Add the sugar marked and mix well.
- (You can use pre-ground sesame seeds instead!)
- If the storebought anko (sweet bean paste) you are using is loose or watery, heat up in a pan to evaporae the moisture, and leave to cool.
- You should have about 200 g of anko after the moisture has evaporated.
- Cover the rice pot with a lid and start heating over high heat.
- When it comes to a boil, turn the heat down immediately to very low, and cook for 12 minutes.
- Turn off the heat, and leave the rice to steam and rest for 10 minutes.
- Sprinkle in the salt and mix well.
- Use a moistened pestle or rolling pin to partially crush the rice.
- You should still see some rice grains in the mashed up rice.
- Moisten your hands, and form 6 dumplings with the mashed rice.
- For regular ohagi: Form the dumplings into oval shapes, and cover with anko (sweet bean paste).
- (This is easy if you spread the anko on a piece of plastic wrap, place the rice dumpling on top and then wrap the anko around it.)
- Make the kinako ohagi: Flatten out one of the rice dumplings on a moistened palm, add 1 tablespoon of anko in the middle, wrap the rice around it, and coat the dumpling with the kinako mixture from step 2.
- Make the black sesame ohagi: Add 2 teaspoons of the ground sesame mixture from step 3 to the remaining anko.
- Wrap it in the rice as with the kinako ohagi, and coat the dumpling with the remaining black sesame mix.
- Line them up on a plate, and the 3-colored ohagi are complete!
- Optionally mix in some ground sesame seeds into the anko for the black sesame ohagi.
rice, water, salt, kinako, sugar, salt, black sesame seeds, sugar
Taken from cookpad.com/us/recipes/149923-easy-3-color-ohagi (may not work)