What is Daifuku?

Daifuku is a type of sweet Japanese pastry. In this type of pastry, a small cake is made of sticky rice paste called Mochi filled with sweet filling. The most common filling is a paste for red beans, but other sweet fillings are possible. Daifuku can be dusted with flour, cocoa or sugar. This adds taste and prevents sticky rice bread to stick to the fingers. The name suggests that these pastries bring good luck, which makes them a popular traditional gift. The name could have evolved from the fact that the words for "happiness" and "abdomen" sound very similar, with the original name "large abdominal rice cake". The result is a strong, flexible dough that the chef can work with your hands and a war pin, while it is still hot, shape to the leaf and cut into rectangular blocks. Each individual block forms an external shell of a single daifuk; The chef stretches and flattens it before it ovates it around the filling and dusts it with flour or sugar. As the dough cools down, it solidifies in shape.

MOCHI Creating using a microwave or steamboat is a relatively fast process. The traditional preparation of Mochi, known as Mochitsuki, is a time -consuming process with an element of ritual. You want to prepare a muchi, cook sticky rice in the water for hours, often overnight, then steam it before pounding it into the paste with wooden boats in the mortar. They then shape the resulting mocha into pastries or blocks. Mochi, and the extension of Mochitsuki, is an important part of many Japanese New Year's celebrations.

The traditional Daifuku filling is Anko, a sweet paste made of red beans Azuki and sugar or honey. The number o FE variants, including cakes full of whole strawberries, slices of fruit or melon paste. Adding colored to mochi paste produces pastries in a wide range of colors, including pink and green. In some cases they give ingredients like mugwort

One variant, Yukimi Daifuku, uses ice cream as a filling. Japanese confectionery company lOTTE ™ sells this product. Sweet consists of a ball of ice cream surrounded by a layer of mochi, which remains soft at frost temperature. Name means "Daifuku Spowning Snows."