Microwave Mochi

I attempted to make Mochi the other day, it was actually pretty good.

I'm still pretty cut up about not having nice gluten and lactose filled cake and biscuits that I used to have at lunch times and mutilating a perfectly good cake or biscuit recipe with gluten free this and lactose free that doesn't make it any better.

Mochi is a great cake/biscuit replacement because whilst it's made from glutinous rice flour it doesn't contain gluten, the dough is very versatile used in sweet and savory dishes, it's easy to make.
As the main ingredients are IBS Friendly I don't need to substitute anything and hope for the best. You can play around with flavours, colour and purpose of your mochi but I completely winged it and shoved vanilla essence in it (which I couldn't taste anyway) and made it green. I then I put some coconut from a graze packet in the middle.

A teaspoon of dessicated coconut probably would've worked better then a few flakes of dried coconut, I wouldn't suggest putting flavours in this recipe unless you are prepared to make it strong as the sugar will drown what ever you put in it. (I tried it with green tea and I couldn't taste it either.)

This recipe contains a lot of sugar but I tried a recipe with less sugar and it wasn't as happy with it.

I will probably return to this recipe as it's really versatile, I would like to make a Mochi cake at some point.

This recipe comes from DINKYPIE on allrecipes.com.

Mochi (easy)

Makes a decent amount of dough.

For dough :

192g of Glutinous Rice Flour
201g (5oz) of Granulated Sugar
350ml of Water
2 drops of White Vinegar

For Dusting :
50g of Corn Flour
50g of Icing Sugar

1. Mix the Rice Flour and Sugar. Add the Water and Vinegar and mix until smooth.

2. Put the mixture in a microwaveable bowl, parcially cover the bowl and microwave for 8 to 10 minutes.

3. once its cooked allow it to cool, then you can manipulate the dough into shapes (this is when it can be filled) then coat in the dusting. I often find the there is a hard skin on the top for some reason (probably because I don't cover it properly) if there is a skin and you don't like it inside the Mochi (it ruins the consistency) the skin can be picked off.