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Shingen mochi, like abekawa mochi, is a rice cake covered with kinako (roasted soybean flour) and brown sugar syrup. [4] [6] It is named after Takeda Shingen a famous daimyo who ruled over Yamanashi during the Sengoku era. He is said to have used mochi which consisted of rice flour and sugar as an emergency ration during the warring periods.
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 paste and molded into the desired shape.
Zunda-mochi (ずんだ餅) is a type of Japanese confectionery popular in northeastern Japan. It is sometimes translated as "green soybean rice cake." [1] It generally consists of a round cake of short-grained glutinous rice with sweetened mashed soybean paste on top. In some varieties, the green soybean paste entirely covers the white rice cake.
An usu (Japanese:, Japanese: 臼) [1] is a large Japanese stamp mill with a pestle called kine (, Japanese: 杵), used to pound rice or millet. While the function of an usu is similar to the smaller suribachi and surikogi mortars, the shape is very different, as the usu usually lacks the rough pattern in the bowl , and has a differently shaped ...
In Japan, the glutinous rice flour produced from ground cooked glutinous rice, used to make mochi, is called mochigomeko (Japanese: もち米粉, or mochiko for short). [3] In comparison to the glutinous rice flour, non-glutinous rice flour ( Chinese : 粘米粉 ; pinyin : zhānmǐ fěn , Japanese : 上新粉 [ ja ] ; romanized : jōshinko ...
A simple snack in Japan is becoming a deadly tradition. At least nine people have died after choking on mochi rice cakes. It's made with sticky rice and grilled beans and traditionally eaten in ...
Yakimochi is grilled or broiled mochi or pounded rice cake. Traditionally, it is prepared using a small charcoal grill , but in modern times a gas grill can be used. During the time of the Autumn Moon, it is traditional to eat fresh yakimochi while sipping sake and enjoying the view of the full moon .
This type is a kind of crêpe made from shiratama-ko (glutinous rice flour), though the original sakuramochi at Chōmeiji Yamamoto-ya uses wheat flour. Kansai style Sakuramochi common in the Kansai region, also referred to as Dōmyōji -mochi after the Buddhist temple in Osaka where its nuns made the famous Dōmyōji-hoshii (dried glutinous rice).