{"id":377502,"date":"2019-01-01T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-02T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tasteofhome.com\/?p=377502"},"modified":"2024-10-16T08:12:59","modified_gmt":"2024-10-16T13:12:59","slug":"what-is-mochi-ice-cream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tasteofhome.com\/article\/what-is-mochi-ice-cream\/","title":{"rendered":"What Is Mochi Ice Cream and How Do You Make It?"},"content":{"rendered":"You can find mochi ice cream at Japanese restaurants and in the frozen dessert aisle<\/a> of most grocery stores, often in a range of flavors like strawberry, green tea, chocolate, mango and vanilla. You can also make it at home! It takes only a handful of ingredients to whip up mochi ice cream<\/a>. Just make sure you have room in your freezer!\r\n

What Is Mochi Ice Cream?<\/h2>\r\nMochi ice cream is a popular Japanese dessert<\/a> made from a sweet pounded rice dough wrapped around ice cream. Its texture is similar to the chew of boba and gives a fun spin to homemade ice cream<\/a>. We love enjoying mochi after a filling meal, like this chicken yakisoba recipe<\/a>.\r\n

Where Is Mochi From?<\/h2>\r\nMochi is a dessert hailing from Japan. Often enjoyed during the Japanese New Year as a celebration food, families used to gather for a mochitsuki<\/em>, the event of pounding mochi in a mortar with large wooden mallets. These days, households may instead use a mochi machine\u2014similar to a bread machine\u2014that kneads the steamed glutinous rice for you.\r\n\r\nThe good news is when you make this recipe, you can skip both of these laborious steps and head straight for the microwave! The magic of mochiko flour<\/a> (glutinous rice flour) and heat allows you to get a similar texture without all the work.\r\n

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What Is Mochi Ice Cream Made Of?<\/h2>\r\nWhen people in the U.S. think of mochi, they tend to think of mochi ice cream, the round balls of sticky rice dough with ice cream in the middle. But \"mochi\" is only the glutinous rice cake on the outside. Traditionally, mochi is made with steamed glutinous rice pounded with water and sugar until it becomes a paste-like dough.\r\n\r\nIt's important to use shiratamako<\/a> or mochiko<\/a> sweet rice flour in order to get the sticky results. Another critical ingredient is potato or corn starch to prevent the dough from sticking. You don't eat the starch since you dust it off, but it's an essential ingredient in making mochi.\r\n

What Does Mochi Ice Cream Taste Like?<\/h2>\r\nMochi ice cream has a soft chew and tastes a bit milky from the rice. Plain mochi can be enjoyed savory, grilled, steamed or sweet. Perhaps you've seen it as a frozen yogurt topping made into tiny squares that look like marshmallows or filled with sweet red bean paste. Wrapped around ice cream, it's a refreshingly cool and chewy dessert.\r\n\r\nYou can also add ingredients like matcha powder, dried strawberry powder, cocoa powder or vanilla extract to flavor and color the dough.\r\n

Where Can I Buy Mochi Ice Cream?<\/h2>\r\nTo compare what you make to the store-bought version, look for mochi ice cream at Japanese supermarkets like Uwajimaya, Nijiya or Mitsuwa as well as in many Korean or Chinese supermarkets in the frozen dessert aisle.\r\n\r\nMochi ice cream is usually sold in boxes of about six balls and and you can choose from flavors like matcha green tea, strawberry, chocolate, mango, black sesame, vanilla, coffee and plum wine. Supermarkets like Trader Joe's, Whole Foods and Safeway also carry mochi ice cream. Look for brands like Mikawaya, My\/Mo<\/a>, Maeda-en<\/a> and Bubbies.\r\n

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How to Make Mochi Ice Cream<\/h2>\r\n

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