Raindrop Crystal Supercolor Wagashi
An amazing, soft & chewy magical Japanese sweet delicacy made with love and once you bite into them, your will be filed with its wondrous colors and flavors. Using Suncore Foods® Blue Butterfly Pea and Lilac Taro Yam Supercolor Powders to create a marvelously unique colors in these Raindrop Crystal Rainbow Supercolor Wagashi (Mochi) and the end result is a surprisingly refreshing dish that absolutely make all our hearts fluster!
Ingredients
Mochi:
4 tbsp corn starch
½ cup glutinous rice flour
¾ cup milk
3.5 tbsp sugar
1 tbsp coconut oil/butter
Purple crystals:
1 cup water
1/2 tbsp Suncore Foods® Lilac Taro Supercolor Powder
1/2 tsp agar agar powder
1 tbsp sugar
Blue crystals:
1 cup water
1/4 tsp Suncore Foods® Blue Butterfly Pea Flower Supercolor Powder
1/2 tsp agar agar powder
1 tbsp sugar
Directions
1. Dissolve lilac taro powder in water, add sugar and agar agar powder. Mix well and then microwave 1 minute or more until the agar powder completely dissolved. Pour the mixture into a flat container and put in the fridge until set. Follow the same process for blur crystal.
2. Then mix all the Mochi ingredients in a bowl and steam for 25 minutes. Then add coconut oil/butter and let it cool for 5 minutes.
3. Wear gloves and knead for about 5 minutes until it becomes elastic. Divide into 8 pieces and set aside.
4. Take the crystals out, cut into tiny square pieces. Take a piece plastic wrap and place 2 Tbsp crystals on it, then place the mochi on top of it. Carefully wrap them together and cool in the fridge for 30 minutes.