Cook Rice cake with Rice cooker : A Recipe of Japanese Local Food

How to Make Japanese Rice cake with Rice cooker

Cooking Time: 1 hour and 20 minutes

Quantity: For 2-3 people

It is expensive to buy, but you can easily cook at your home.

Ingredients

  • Glutinous Rice (Mochi-gome, もち米)  3 cups
  • Water About 80% against Glutinous Rice
  • Rice Flour (Kome-ko, 米粉)

Recipe

  1. Wash the rice、and drain the one using a strainer.
  2. Add the rice and weighed water to the rice cooker and cook as usual.
  3. While rice is cooking, spread rice flour on cutting board.
    When rice is cooked, stir rice in rice cooker using a rolling pin.

  4. When the grains of rice gathers to some extent, you will pound the rice next.
  5. As you can see below, you have to try hard to pound until the rice become sticky.
  6. Put rice cake on a cutting board.

  7. Roll up rice cake to the size of your choice, and cook for a sticky rice cake (kinako-mochi, きな粉餅) and a rice cake with nori seaweed (isobe-yaki, 磯辺焼き).