Most people often think of mochi as an ice cream-filled or red bean-filled confection. Meet warabi mochi: a soft, melt-in-your mouth experience that requires zero filling. And it only takes 4 ingredients!
Check out how to make it in this video:
Quite common in Japan, Warabi mochi is a traditional Japanese confection that is usually made with bracken starch and dusted with kinako (soybean flour). In this recipe, a more common ingredient is used instead of bracken starch-- potato starch. If you can't find potato starch, cornstarch can be used in a pinch; keep in mind that the final texture won't be the same, though.
This recipe infuses mochi dough with jasmine tea, but feel free to experiment with different types of tea, i.e., green tea, sencha, hojicha, etc.
Traditionally before serving, a syrup made of two ingredients(brown sugar and water) is drizzled on top.
Fast Facts!
under 4 ingredients(not including syrup)
uses potato starch
vegetarian + vegan
No-bake, no stove
soy alert
beginner baking level
no special equipment required
Warabi Mochi Recipe:
*for more detailed visuals and instructions, watch this video*
-makes two servings-
15-25 min prep time
30-60 sec cook time
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Mochi Dough
1/6 cup/32g potato starch
1 tablespoon/12g brown sugar
3/4 cup/150g jasmine tea, cooled
Kinako, or toasted soybean flour
Syrup: 4 tablespoons brown sugar and 2 tablespoons water
Make the jasmine tea: let two bags/2-3 tbsp of jasmine tea steep in 3/4 cup of water for 5 min. Let cool
Combine brown sugar and potato starch in a microwave-safe bowl. Pour in tea and whisk until smooth. If there are visible chunks, strain them out.
Microwave at 30 second intervals until thick and gloopy. The dough will appear translucent.
Sprinkle a layer of kinako on a tray and transfer the mochi dough on top of it. Cover the mochi dough with the kinako. Cut the dough into bite-sized chunks and sprinkle each piece of dough with more kinako.
Serve immediately with syrup to drizzle.
Syrup recipe:
Combine the brown sugar and water and microwave until all sugar is dissolved and the syrup has thickened slightly.
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