Make Your Own Daifuku Mochi

Note: while there are multiple steps to this recipe, this mochi is broken down into workable categories to help you better plan for preparation and cooking.

Make the Filling

1. Gather the ingredients.

   

2. Heat 2/3 cup of water and 1/2 cup of sugar in a small pot.

   

3. Add 1/4 cup of anko powder and stir well.

   

4. Cool anko filling.

   

5. Make 12 small anko balls and set aside.

   

Make the Mochi

1. Gather the ingredients.

   

2. Put shiratama-ko in a heat-resistant bowl.

   

3. Mix water and sugar in a separate small small bowl.

   

4. Gradually pour water-sugar mixture into shiratama-ko, stirring well.

   

5. Put bowl in microwave and heat dough for about 2 minutes. Stir the dough.

   

6. Heat dough in the microwave again, until dough inflates. Stir mochi quickly.

   

7. Dust a flat pan, as well as your hands, with some katakuri-ko starch. 

   

8. Remove hot mochi from bowl to the pan by hand. The mochi will be hot and sticky, so please be careful not to burn your hands.

   

9. Dust hands with more katakuri-ko starch and divide mochi into 12 pieces by hands.

   

10. Make 12 flat and round mochi pieces.

    

11. Put a piece of anko filling in the center of the mochi and wrap the anko by stretching mochi.

    

12. Round the daifuku.

    

13. Repeat process to make more pieces.