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2025-07-23 Did the same as below. Worked great. Just plucked the leaves, didn’t wash or cut stem. After 2-3 hours, it already started to lose some strawberry crispness. Eating after 2 hours was great.
2024-04-27
Regular mochi as usual (2:2:1 ratio). Used strawberries on the slightly smaller side, but not tiny. Just cut off the cap flat, didn’t carve a hole into the middle to fill anko or anything. Prep done on a metal sheet pan.
Wrap the strawberries in anko with the tip exposed, then wrap the anko in mochi. Bottom of the strawberry is the seam of the mochi. Ideally, there should be a very subtle amount of red showing through the top of the mochi via the exposed strawberry tip.
- 1 strawberry
- 30g koshian
- 35g mochi
Things that went right:
- It tasted great.
- Made it the same day. That worked well, didn’t need to refrigerate.
- Ate with hands instead of kuromoji.
Things that I should change:
- Koshian was wayyyy too wet.
- I used it directly out of the pack, but that was a mistake. I should dry it out just as much as I usually would for regular mochi.
- Also, I wrapped the strawberry in the anko, then let it sit for ~1 hour while I prepped the mochi and did other things. I left them right-side up on a metal sheet pan, so liquid seeped out from the bottom cut part of the strawberry into the anko and made it even wetter.
- As a mitigation, we threw them in the freezer for a bit, but that didn’t help much.
- Too much mochi. Next time, try 30g instead of 35g.
- I felt like there was too much “chewy”. I prefer the mochi to be thinner, and really more a wrapper than anything.
- Could even try going down to 25g or something, but that is a trial for next time.
Tips from Miyazaki-sensei: remove the leaves by plucking rather than cutting them off. Also, don’t wash the strawberries if you’re okay with unwashed fruit : )Tips from Miyazaki-sensei: remove the leaves by plucking rather than cutting them off. Also, don’t wash the strawberries if you’re okay with unwashed fruit : )
Final recipe: https://www.instagram.com/p/C6jSHA6rlPe/?igsh=NHg4MXdzZWZrMTVv
How long they keep
They need to be eaten day-of.
Putting them in the fridge doesn’t affect the mochi too badly, but it just turns into a soggy mess and loses its crispness. Leaving it out at room temperature is even worse for the sogginess.