How to Prepare Delicious Easy Ohagi and Botamochi Rice Cakes

How to Prepare Delicious Easy Ohagi and Botamochi Rice Cakes Delicious, fresh and tasty.

Easy Ohagi and Botamochi Rice Cakes. Botamochi (also called Ohagi) is a Japanese dish that can be a dessert, snack or a 'meal'. It is sticky rice ball coated with sweet red bean paste. Ohagi or Botamochi is one of those special foods we enjoyed during spring and autumn equinoxes every year.

Ohagi and Botamochi are traditional Japanese sweet dumplings for Higan, a public holiday in Japan.

Higan happens in spring around the vernal equinox and Ohagi and Botamochi are both sweet and delicious and easy to make in your own kitchen.

There are really three different ways to make Ohagi.

You can have Easy Ohagi and Botamochi Rice Cakes using 11 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Easy Ohagi and Botamochi Rice Cakes

1. You need 500 grams of ☆Plain cooked rice.

2. You need 3 tbsp of ☆Sugar.

3. You need 2 tbsp of ☆Hot water.

4. Prepare 1 dash of ☆Salt.

5. You need 240 grams of Sweetened bean paste (Store-bought, divide into 6).

6. Prepare of Matcha kinako.

7. Prepare 1 tsp of Matcha.

8. Prepare 1 tbsp of Kinako.

9. Prepare 1 tsp of Sugar.

10. Prepare of White sesame seeds.

11. It’s 2 tbsp of White sesame seeds.

Ohagi, or botamochi, are sweet rice balls which are usually made with glutinous rice.

This recipe combines sticky rice with Japanese rice.

Glutinous rice is a sticky, often sweet rice grown in Southeast Asia.

It is called glutinous not because it contains gluten, but due to its stickiness.

Easy Ohagi and Botamochi Rice Cakes step by step

1. Put ingredients marked ☆ in a freezer bag and knead well. Divide into 6 pieces, and form into barrel shaped rice balls..

2. Spread bean paste over plastic wrap, and put the rice ball on it. Wrap the rice ball with the bean paste..

3. Make 6 ohagi rice cakes covered with the bean paste. Leave 2 of them as they are. Sprinkle matcha kinako powder or white sesame seeds on the others..

4. Sprinkle kinako powder on two rice cakes..

5. Sprinkle white sesame seeds on two rice cakes..

6. It is convenient to use a mold for making barrel shaped rice balls. You can get this from a 100 yen shop..

7. These are the variations of this recipe with different toppings..

My mother and my grandmother always made these at home.

Homepage > Recipes > Rice Recipes > Ohagi Recipe (Japanese Autumn Dessert Pounded Rice Wrapped with Sweet Bean Paste

We are making Japanese autumn dessert, Ohagi also known as Botamochi in spring.

The pounded rice is still soft.

Ohagi, otherwise konwn as botamochi, is basically a mochi rice ball wrapped in anko (a kind of Japanese sweet red bean paste).