Royal Family Taro Mochi, 120 g, (Pack of 1)

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Peel and cut the taro in small chunks, and place it into a small bowl with a little splash of water.

Even when eating plain, you will be able to enjoy its pleasant taste. However, we would like to highlight that the dessert’s primary excellence comes from its texture. It has a floaty yet firm feeling when bitten into and chewed.I recommend preparing the taro paste the day before, so it has time to mature its flavours but also to firm up slightly. Follow my detailed recipe on how to make taro paste for the full ingredients and method. Fragrant and delicious: The milk buns are made from sweet dough. The taro paste filling is sweet and earthy, with hints of vanilla and coconut.

Coating: Mochi won’t be complete without its outer powdered coating. Use a mix of purple potato powder and milk powder. Purple potato powder makes it purple and milk powder adds a milky taste. You can replace milk powder with soy powder, cashew powder, or coconut powder. Add a hint of coconut by coating it with coconut flakes or shredded coconut as an alternative. Anyways, once the mochi is mixed, it’s time to cook it. I personally like steaming the mochi, since this method is a lot more gentle and forgiving when you’re new to making mochi. If you’re going to eat this within 12 hours and you can store this in a cool area (not the fridge!!), you can keep it at room temperature. Once the taro is finished cooking, drain off any excess water and mix/mash with some coconut milk, sugar and salt. I like using coconut milk here because taro goes nicely with coconut, and it gives the filling a bit of creaminess. If you don’t want/can’t freeze these and you can’t eat them fast enough, I suggest that you make a smaller batch that you know can be eaten that day. Make AheadAs for the glutinous rice flour: make sure that you get glutinous or sweet rice flour, since plain rice flour will not give you the right texture. It might help to think of this in terms of the height and weight of people. Being a foot taller than someone else doesn’t mean you weigh a specific amount more, or even that you weigh more than the shorter person.