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Mochi
Daikon
Soy Sauce
Shichimi Red Pepper
TRADITIONAL JAPANESE RECIPE:
If you are lucky to have a Mochi machine, you can eat soft and warm Mochi right out of the machine. But for the rest of us, we may need to buy it at markets, and that kind needs to be cooked to be edible. It is usually rectanglar or round shaped hard dried Mochi and sold in a bag in dry food aisle, not in the refrigerated section. You can grill the hard Mochi on a wire mesh or in the toaster oven, or boil in hot water.
In this Mochi recipe the Daikon issimply placed on the Mochi. Very easy and very delicious.
WARNING:
The buns are chewy and sticky. Given they are far bigger than bite-sized, they need to be laboriously chewed before swallowing.
Anyone who can't chew properly - like children, or the elderly - will be likely to find them hard to eat.
Chew, chew, chew. If that's not possible, the rice cakes need to be cut into smaller pieces.
Each year, authorities issue public warnings in the run-up to the new year festivities advising that people - especially the very young and elderly - should only eat mochi cut down to smaller little chunks.
Yet despite the warnings, each year there continue to be deaths linked to the dish.
At the turn of 2014 to 2015, the number of casualties peaked at nine. In 2016 it was one, while last year two people died.
Each year, many more end up in critical condition in hospitals across the country.
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Time: 10 Minutes |
Price:  |
Serves: 4 People |
Ingredients:
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Directions:
01 - Cook Mochi on a wire mesh until the Mochi has expanded and browned.
02 - Grate Daikon, and lightly squeeze out the liquid.
03 - Place cooked Mochi on a small plate, top with Daikon, Soy Sauce, and Shichimi. Serve.
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