Warabi Mochi

Name: Warabi Mochi
Yield: 2 servings
Cuisine: Japanese
Ingredients: 50g warabi (bracken) starch, or potato or tapioca starch; 40g sugar; 250ml water; Kinako (roasted soybean flour), for dusting; Kuromitsu (brown sugar syrup), to serve

わらび餅/wah-RAH-bee MOH-chee/

Also known as: Warabimochi, Japanese Bracken Starch Mochi

About this dish

Soft, wobbly, jelly-like squares made from bracken starch, dusted with roasted soybean flour and drizzled with brown sugar syrup.

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Ingredients

🌾50g warabi (bracken) starch, or potato or tapioca starch

🍬40g sugar

💧250ml water

🟫Kinako (roasted soybean flour), for dusting

🍯Kuromitsu (brown sugar syrup), to serve

Method

Serves 2

Mix the starch, sugar and water in a pan until smooth.

Cook over a medium heat, stirring constantly, until it turns thick and translucent.

Keep stirring for another minute until very stretchy.

Tip onto a tray dusted with kinako, dust the top and leave to cool.

Cut into small squares, toss in more kinako and serve with kuromitsu.

✓ What Makes it Authentic

Warabi mochi is a summer sweet especially linked with Kyoto and Nara; despite its name it isn't made from rice.

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