Warabi Mochi with Black Sugar Syrup

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Warabi mochi is a unique dessert made up of jelly-like chunks coated in nutty roasted soybean powder and drizzled with rich black sugar syrup. It's served cold and is one of my favourite Japanese sweets!

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Warabi Mochi

Yield

4 servings

Type

Sweets

Time

1 hr 15 mins

Level

Easy

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what you'll need:

» bracken starch (or tapioca starch or potato starch) » sugar » water » kinako (soy bean powder) » salt » muscovado sugar

Mix the starch

Mix the bracken starch (or starch alternative) with sugar and water.

1

Transfer

Pour the mixture through a fine mesh sieve into a sauce pan.

2

Turn on the heat

Place the pan on the stove and heat on medium. Stir continuously.

3

Thicken

Once the mixture starts to thicken, turn the heat down to low and keep stirring continuously.

4

Remove from heat

Once the mixture turns translucent and forms a jelly-like "dough", remove it from the heat. 

5

Transfer

Line a container with plastic wrap and a light sprinkling of water. Transfer the warabi mochi to the container and leave to cool. Once cool, chill in the fridge for 1 hour.

6

Mix sugar

Mix muscovado sugar, caster sugar and water in a sauce pan.

7

Heat

On a medium heat, bring to a boil. Once boiling, reduce heat and simmer for 2-3 minutes until thickened. Remove any foam that forms around the edges and remove from the stove.

8

Cool

Allow to cool slightly before transferring to a small serving jug.

9

Make coating

Mix kinako (soy bean powder) and sugar in a container with a pinch of salt.

10

Cut

Cut the chilled warabi mochi into bitesize pieces.

11

Coat

Coat each piece of warabi mochi with kinako powder just before serving.

12

Serve up

Drizzle with black sugar syrup and enjoy!

13

See the full post for ingredient quantities and more information about this unique and tasty sweet!