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Food/Recipe
Sakura Blossom
Prep15 mins
Cook10 mins
Total25 mins
🌍 Japanese🍽️ Dessert👥 4 servings
Ingredients
- 🌸 Sakura powder – 1 tbsp
- 🍚 Sweet rice flour – 1 cup
- 💧 Water – 1 cup
- 🍬 Sugar – 1/2 cup
- 🍥 Anko (red bean paste) – for filling
- 🌿 Sakura leaves (pickled) – for wrapping
Instructions
- 🥣 In a bowl, mix rice flour, sugar, and sakura powder. Add water gradually until smooth.
- ♨️ Steam the mixture for about 20 minutes, or until it becomes translucent and sticky.
- 🖐️ Once cooled slightly, divide the dough into small portions and flatten each into a disc.
- 🍥 Place a small amount of anko in the center of each disc and wrap the dough around it to form a ball.
- 🌿 Wrap each mochi ball with a pickled sakura leaf and serve.