In the blink of an eye, the New Year is coming. Every year from January to May, it is the time when strawberries are listed in the Japanese market, you can buy strawberries of various specifications and varieties, and different varieties of strawberries have their own image names, such as a strawberry named "Tochigi Girl" is a variety cultivated in Tochigi Prefecture, which is quite popular with the market, and the strawberry named "Red Cheek" is a variety with a red cheek, as well as a relatively high-grade white strawberry and so on.
Strawberries are said to have only been introduced to Japan about 200 years ago, but it is also Japan that consumes the most strawberries in the world today. Over the years, the Japanese have continuously improved the varieties of strawberries, cultivated various standards such as sweetness and acidity, and have more than 200 kinds of strawberries, which are deeply loved by consumers. Many Japanese families also take their children to pick strawberries in strawberry orchards, and some restaurants also offer limited dishes made of strawberries, and various strawberry-flavored snacks and desserts are also limited. Japan's "Daifuku" is a traditional Japanese lettuce that is loved by the Japanese people, and the limited edition "Daifuku Strawberry", which is combined with strawberries, has become a seasonal favorite dessert.
In order to express their love for strawberry Daifuku, Japanese housewives will also make their own recipes and share recipes on the Internet, so that more people can experience the fun of making strawberries Daifuku.
Ingredient Preparation:
Small strawberries: 4 pcs
Red bean paste: 40 g
Glutinous rice flour: 50 g (can also use ordinary rice flour)
Sugar: 10 g
Water: 70 ml
Starch: to taste
Preparation Method:
1. First make glutinous rice dough, add glutinous rice flour and sugar to the bowl, stir and add about 35 ml of water.
2. Continue stirring, crush the small particles in the glutinous rice flour and stir, then add about 35 ml of water and stir into glutinous rice paste. After boiling water in the steamer, steam the stirred glutinous rice syrup together with the bowl.
3. Cover the steamer with a steamer cloth and steam for 20 minutes on medium heat; if you use a microwave oven, heat it for 1 minute at a power of 600 watts, remove the glutinous rice dough, stir it with a water-soaked spatula, and heat it for another 1 minute.
4. Stir the steamed glutinous rice balls evenly and cut into equal portions. Pay attention to sprinkle some starch on the cutting board first, and the knife that cuts the dough should also stick some starch first, so as not to stick the dough to the knife and cannot be pulled open.
5. Wash, deste and dry the strawberries. Take 1/4 part of the bean paste and place it on the plastic wrap, form a long strip with a width of 2 cm, and wrap the bean paste on the outside of the strawberry using plastic wrap.
6. Dip some starch on your hands, take a piece of glutinous rice dough, and knead it into a round dough cake with a diameter of about 6 cm. Let the tip of the strawberry wrapped in bean paste face the center of the dough, and then turn the dough cake up and down along with the strawberry.
7. The dough is partially sagging around the side, wrapped in the outside of the strawberry, and the glutinous rice is pinched at the bottom to seal. Brush off the excess starch and daifuku the strawberries will be ready.
Daifuku Strawberry, a delicate "washiko", may seem like a glutinous rice dumpling wrapped in a whole fresh strawberry and bean paste, but it is an irresistible temptation for the Japanese people's taste buds. Compared with Daifuku sold in supermarkets, Daifuku's own strawberries have been added to their own hearts, so that people who eat it can feel the taste of happiness more.