Ichigo Daifuku

While flipping an old Pacific Friend March 2003 magazine in the library I found something that makes me mouth watering. It was pretty bad since I was famished at that time. It was an article on a Western-Japanese hybrid dessert Ichigo Daifuku that was invented in 1985. It is something that looks like a ball made out of glutinous rice. In it were yummy black beans and strawberry coated with anko (adzuki bean jam) or syrup. Though I never tasted it, it sounds so delicious through my imagination. First imagine chewing at the stretchy and chewy glutinous rice cake or mochi. Then the sweetness of the yummy black bean and followed by the fresh strawberry. It just give such a refreshing taste plus the natural sweetness and sour taste of strawberry.

 

Since it sounds so good I can’t help myself and look so the recipe, so that I can dash into my kitchen and start making one. This is the recipe I get from certain website.

 

Ichigo Daifuku

NGREDIENTS:

• 5 pieces of Japanese kiri-mochi (dried rice cakes)
• 3 tbsps sugar
• 4 tbsps water
• 10 strawberries
• 1 cup anko (sweet azuki beans)

PREPARATION:

1. Wrap a strawberry with anko and make anko balls.
2. Put rice cakes, sugar, and water in a bowl and heat in microwave for a few minutes until rice cakes are soften.
3. Stir the rice cake well with a spoon.
4. Spread the rice cake over floured cutting board. Make 10 rounds of rice cakes.
5. Wrap an anko ball with the rice cake and make daifuku cakes.

Actually i haven't try the recipe yet. So tell me if it taste good.

~ by bluezybear on June 13, 2006.