Does anyone recognize this mystery dessert?!
Does anyone recognize this mystery dessert?
Last night, I had an interesting japanese dessert. It was like a small doughnut, but on the inside it had sweet red bean paste. The dough on it was really, well, doughy (chewy, more like). It was covered in powdered sugar. The packaging didn't say what it was, but does anyone know the 'official name' for this?
(This was previously in the wrong catagory)
Answers:
Here is a recipe for Japanese Mochi ice cream balls with rice flour coating..you could maybe adapt it and use sweet red beans in the center? Not sure...
Japanese Mochi Ice Cream Balls
10 scoops ice cream (flavor of your choice)
1 cup glutinous-rice flour (mochiko)(sticky rice, mochi rice) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/glutinous_r...
3/4 cup water
1/4 cup sugar
2 tsp. vanilla
corn flour, for dusting
glass bowl
mixing spoon
plastic wrap
cutting board
airtight container
Steps
Step One
Soften the ice cream, scoop into 10 round balls, and refreeze until hard.
Step Two
Combine glutinous rice flour and water in a glass bowl. Mix well to paste, then add sugar and vanilla, mix until dissolved.
Step Three
Cover with plastic wrap and microwave for 2 minutes. It will be half cooked. Remove and stir well while it’s hot.
Step Four
Cover and return to microwave for 30 seconds. Stir well.
Step Five
Place plastic wrap over a cutting board. Dust generously with corn flour. (this is a must)
Step Six
Wait for dough to cool. Place onto board and divide into 10 pieces.
Step Seven
Flatten dough with your palm. Wrap each piece of dough around an ice cream ball and refreeze in an airtight container.
Tips & Warnings
Choose an ice cream flavor that suits mochi such as coffee, green tea, red bean, mango, vanilla, chocolate or strawberry. Bubble Gum or peppermint may not cut it.
You can substitute Splenda for sugar.
The dough will be sticky.
Serve mochi ice cream slightly thawed, unless you have a penchant for biting into something with the consistency of cold, hard cement.
Sounds like Daifuku, they are delicious and pretty easy to make at home. Here's the Wiki article
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/daifuku...
Not sure of the exact name (and I spent 25 months in Korea) but it is bean curd (like our tofu) in a rice flour dough. Very popular in Korea and Japan (Asia). They even put it in fugecicles! :)
I looove those... but unfortunately I don't know what they are called... sorry.
I guess the first person who answered is right...
Sounds quite a bit like a:
Sesame Seed Ball (Dim Sum dessert)
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The first answer is the correct one! It should be red bean paste wrapped with sticky rice cake (mochi) in Japanese they call it "daifuku"