Microwave Mochi
- 2 cups mochiko (sweet rice flour)
- 1 cup sugar
- 2 cups water
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
- 1/4 teaspoon red or green food coloring
- Potato starch or cornstarch
Microwave Mochi
Demonstrated by: June Tokuda.
Featured in Gifts from the Kitchen on December 1, 1998.
Ingredients:
Directions:
- Grease or spray a 5-cup microwave tube pan.
- In a medium bowl, combine all ingredients except potato starch.
- Mix until smooth.
- Pour mixture into prepared pan; cover with plastic wrap.
- Rotating pan several times during cooking, microwave at high power for 10 minutes.
- Let stand a few minutes.
- Pull mochi from sides of pan and invert onto a board dusted with the potato starch and let cool.
- Cut into 1/4-inch pieces.
- Coat each piece with potato starch.
Makes 36 pieces.
