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Rice cake kirimochi or kakumochi Rice cake marumochi Fresh mochi being pounded. A mochi (/ m oʊ t ʃ iː / MOH-chee; [1] Japanese もち, 餅 ⓘ) is a Japanese rice cake made of mochigome (もち米), a short-grain japonica glutinous rice, and sometimes other ingredients such as water, sugar, and cornstarch. The steamed rice is pounded into ...
Goheimochi (Japanese: 五平餅) is a type of mochi made in the Chubu region of central Japan, specifically in Nagano, Gifu, and Aichi prefectures. [1] Unlike regular mochi it is coated with a type of sweet and sour sauce, usually composed of sugar, soy sauce, and mirin. [2] The mochi is then skewered and grilled.
In Japanese cuisine, traditional sweets are known as wagashi, and are made using ingredients such as red bean paste and mochi. Though many desserts and sweets date back to the Edo period (1603–1867) and Meiji period (1868–1911), many modern-day sweets and desserts originating from Japan also exist.
Daifuku was originally called Habutai mochi (腹太餅) (belly thick rice cake) because of its filling's nature. Later, the name was changed to daifuku mochi ( 大腹餅 ) (big belly rice cake). Since the pronunciations of Fuku ( 腹 ) (belly) and Fuku ( 福 ) (luck) are the same in Japanese, the name was further changed to daifuku mochi ...
Kuzumochi (葛餅/久寿餅) is a Japanese term referring either to mochi cakes made of kuzuko (葛粉), starch derived from the root of the kudzu plant, or mochi cakes made from Lactobacillales-fermented wheat starch (久寿餅) which is speciality dish local to certain wards of Tokyo, served chilled and topped with kuromitsu and kinako.
In the United States, a group purchasing organization (GPO) is an entity that is created to leverage the purchasing power of a group of businesses to obtain discounts from vendors based on the collective buying power of the GPO members. [1] Many GPOs are funded by administrative fees which are paid by the vendors that GPOs oversee.
Strawberry flavor mochi donut by Mister Donut. One of the earliest iterations of mochi donuts can be traced to the development of "poi mochi" by Charmaine Ocasek in Hawaii in 1992. [2] This iteration is a fusion of American donuts and Japanese mochi [3] and "consisted of deep-fried balls of mashed taro and mochiko, a Japanese short-grain sweet ...
Gyūhi is a softer variety of mochi (餅), and both are made from either glutinous rice or from mochiko (餅粉, glutinous rice flour). [1] Because gyūhi is more delicate, it is usually less frequently made and served than mochi. It is sometimes featured in sweets that originated in the Kyoto area.