Recipe: Tasty Easy Kusa-Mochi in the Microwave

Easy Kusa-Mochi in the Microwave. Find some fresh yomogi and pick only the leaves. If they 're a bit dirty give them a quick wash. Kusa mochi is green color mochi, because of Yomogi leaves(mugword) and there're Anko inside.

Making mochi using a microwave is not only easy, but very fast to make. This recipe allows improvising on substitutions if you don't have the correct ingredients. Also, mochi is kept at room temperature. You can have Easy Kusa-Mochi in the Microwave using 7 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Easy Kusa-Mochi in the Microwave

1. You need 20 grams of Yomogi.
2. Prepare 70 grams of Tsubu-an.
3. Prepare 20 grams of Sugar.
4. It's 75 grams of Joshinko.
5. You need 25 grams of Shiratamako.
6. It's 100 ml of Hot water.
7. It's 3 grams of Baking soda.

So, do not put in the refrigerator, or else you will get hard All in all easy and delicious! Fresh is definitely better than buying store bought or making mochi. It seems like mocha mania is in full force! Traditionally, it takes quite a bit of effort to make homemade mochi.

Easy Kusa-Mochi in the Microwave step by step

1. Find some fresh yomogi and pick only the leaves. If they're a bit dirty give them a quick wash..
2. Boil 1 litre water in a saucepan and add baking soda..
3. Add the yomogi into the water and blanch. Wash it a few times then leave it to soak in cold water..
4. Gently squeeze any excess water out of the yomogi..
5. Finely chop the yomogi with a knife and then grind it into a paste with a pestle and mortar. If you don't have a pestle and mortar, you can blend it in a food processor instead..
6. Split the tsubu-an into 5 portions and roll each portion into a ball..
7. Add the joshinko, shiratamako and sugar into a bowl and lightly mix them with a pair of cooking chopsticks..
8. Gradually add the hot water and mix everything together well so that there are no lumps. I find that mixing by hand is the most efficient..
9. Lightly wrap the mixture and heat it in the microwave for 2 minutes at 500 W..
10. Wet a wooden spatula and mix the paste well until it gathers into a ball of mochi dough..
11. Place the dough in the same mortar as the yomogi paste..
12. Mix the mochi dough and yomogi paste well with a wooden pestle until the yomogi paste is distributed evenly..
13. Keep your fingers wet and split the mochi dough into 5 portions. Then stretch out each portion and use one portion to wrap each ball of tsubu-an..
14. These kusa-mochi are likely to stick to the plate they're served on so I think it's easiest to serve them on top of a dusting of kinako..

Kusa mochi (草餅, lit. "grass mochi"), also known as kusamochi or yomogi mochi, is a Japanese sweet. It is made from mochi and leaves of yomogi, also known as Japanese mugwort. Because Japanese mugwort is kneaded into the mochi, kusa mochi takes on a vivid green color. Quick and easy microwave mochi recipe using a microwave mochi baker. However, on a trip to the Asian store, I found this nifty little microwave mochi baker and I knew we had to have it.

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