recipe

Gohei mochi

It is a rice dish that is baked with two types of sauce.

Cooking utensils

Rolling pin　or wooden pestle

Bowl

Wooden spatula

Food processor

Tray

Pot or frying pan (20 cm)

Ingredients(for 2 people/8 parts)

Mochi

・ Rice 600g (2 go)

・ ３ tablespoons of potato starch or cornstarch

・ ８ disposable chopsticks

Sauce(Walnut version）

・Walnut 60g

・ 50ml of water

・ １ tablespoons of soy sauce

・ 3 tablespoons of sugar

・ 1 tablespoon of miso

Sauce (soy sauce version)

・Walnut 60g

・ 100ml of water

・ ２ tablespoons of soy sauce

・ ２ tablespoons of sugar

・ 1 tablespoon of potato starch or cornstarch

preparation

Put walnuts in a food processor in advance.

direction

1,Put rice and potato starch in a bowl and mix with a spatula. Crush the rice by pounding it with a rolling pin.

2,When the rice grains are gone, divide it into ８ equal parts.

Wet your hands with water and squeeze firmly to add rice to the split. 

Then make an oval shape. Let sit for about 15 minutes to dry.

3,Make the sauce. First make a walnut version. Put water, soy sauce, sugar and miso in a pan and simmer for about 1 minute. Add the crushed walnuts and mix. Transfer the sauce to a container.

4,Next, make a soy sauce version. Put water, soy sauce and sugar in a pan and bring to a boil. Boil for about a minute. Dissolve the amount of potato starch in the same amount of water. Mix while putting it in a pan with a thinness that makes the thread hang down. Transfer the sauce to a container.

5.Apply 4 walnut sauces and 4 soy sauce sauces. Bake in the oven at 180 ° C for 3 minutes.

6,Serve.

Kakitama Soup

Soup with Beaten Egg

Cooking utensils

Bowl

Ladle

Pot

Teaspoons

chopsticks

Ingredients 

・ Dashi soup 400ml

Or (400 ml of water, 5 g of dashi stock)

・1 teaspoon of soy sauce

・2 pinches of salt

・1 tablespoon of sake

・50g spinach 

(If you don’t have it, you can use green onion)

・1 teaspoons of potato starch

(1 teaspoons of water-soluble water)

・ One egg

preparation

Cut spinach into 2 cm wide pieces.

direction

1,Put the soup stock in a pot and bring to a boil. First, add the cut spinach and simmer for about a minute.

2,Next, soy sauce, salt, and sake to season.

3,Dissolve the potato starch in the same amount of water. While mixing slowly with a raidle, add the potato starch dissolved in water little by little.

4,Break the egg and beat it. Pour the egg slowly and little by little as if the yarn goes down.

5, serve.

One point advice

Thicken the soup with water-soluble potato starch, and then add the egg. Then the egg will spread beautifully.