Easiest Way to Make Award-winning Sakura Mochi (Cherry blossom crepe roll)

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Sakura mochi is a Japanese dessert that is pink, just like the sakura (cherry blossom flowers) and is made of sweet glutinous rice Sakura mochi is best eaten on the same day it is prepared. Sakura means cherry blossoms in Japanese and both flowers and leaves are used in Japanese cooking, especially with making sweets. Cherry blossom season in Japan is one of the most spectacular and beautiful times of the year. This recipe for a traditional sweet made around the Tokyo area Roll the azuki paste into small logs and wrap a pancake around each, pinching together one end to secure it.

Sakura Mochi (Cherry blossom crepe roll) is one of the most favored of recent trending meals on earth. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions every day. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Sakura Mochi (Cherry blossom crepe roll) is something that I’ve loved my entire life.

To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook sakura mochi (cherry blossom crepe roll) using 8 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Sakura Mochi (Cherry blossom crepe roll):

1. Prepare 50 g flour
2. Make ready 2 Tbs Shiratamako rice powder
3. Prepare 1/2 Tbs sugar
4. Make ready 100 ml water
5. Get 1 little bit of food coloring (red)
6. Make ready 120 g sweet bean paste (without skin)
7. Get Some salad oil
8. Prepare 10 salted cherry blossom leaves

The cherry blossoms have already begun to bloom across Japan and soon they'll be opening in the US as well. Sakuramochi (桜餅) is a Japanese sweet consisting of sweet pink-colored rice cake (mochi) with a red bean paste (anko) center, and wrapped in a pickled cherry blossom (sakura) leaf. Different regions of Japan have different styles of sakuramochi. Place water and cherry blossom leaves in a bowl for at least one hour prior to cooking to remove extra salt.

Steps to make Sakura Mochi (Cherry blossom crepe roll):

1. Sift the flour. Wet and dissolve the shiratama powder. Add the flour, shiratama powder, sugar, red food coloring and water in a bowl and mix together.
2. The dough is ready.
3. Heat a pan. Spread the salad oil with kitchen paper, and then spread the dough to make an oval shape.
4. When the surface is dried, turn it over.
5. Cool down the crepes for a while.
6. Divide the bean paste in 10 pieces and form columns. If the paste is too wet, microwave a little to dry it up.
7. Roll the bean paste with the crepe and then roll the cherry blossom leaf (washed and dried).

Different regions of Japan have different styles of sakuramochi. Place water and cherry blossom leaves in a bowl for at least one hour prior to cooking to remove extra salt. Cherry blossoms (sakura) are seen as the true sign of spring in Japan. Sakuramochi can be found at supermarkets and convenient stores, and of course, at Japanese sweets specialty stores all around Japan during the cherry blossom season (March - April). These are actually cherry blossom flavored which has a very beautiful fragrant flavor.

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