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April 10, 2021

How to Make Healthy Strawberry Mochi at Home (Made in the Microwave)

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Here’s an easy, 3-ingredient STRAWBERRY mochi recipe you can make in the microwave in under 5 minutes, using half a pound of fresh strawberries

How to Make Healthy Strawberry Mochi at Home (Made in the Microwave) - strawberry mochi
What You'll Find in this Post:
1. Ingredients Used to Make Strawberry Mochi
2. More Strawberry Recipes
3. What to Use for Filling
4. How to Make
5. Watch the Video Tutorial in Pinterest (video here)
6. Frequently Asked Questions
7. Recipe Variations and Optional Add Ins:
8. How to Store Strawberry Mochi
9. Final Tips
10. More Easy Microwave Mochi Recipes You’ll Love (HERE)
11. 3 Ingredient Strawberry Mochi Made in the Microwave
12. Making this for Valentine’s?

Ingredients Used to Make Strawberry Mochi

**I’ve linked some of these ingredients to amazon.com to give you an idea of what they are, but you should also be able to find them in your local grocery store (usually, the natural & organic food section). They are also affiliate links, which means that I earn a commission as an Amazon Associate if you decide to purchase the items. The price will be the same for you, link or no link 🙂

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Fresh Strawberries – frozen works, too!

Glutinous Rice Flour – this goes by many names. You’ll see Glutinous Rice Flour and Mochiko Flour (my favorite brand) in Asian grocery stores, and Sweet White Rice Flour in most other stores. ***Please note that regular white rice flour or brown rice flour is NOT the same thing as glutinous rice flour!!!

Sugar– you can use any granulated sugar of choice. I used honey powder, but for vegan options, you can also use brown sugar or coconut sugar. You can also use sugar-free substitutes such as monk fruit sweetener.

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What to Use for Filling

  • Sweetened Red Bean Paste (a.k.a. Koshi An): You can find Sweetened Red Bean paste in most Asian grocery stores, and online (Amazon). There are Fine and Coarse kinds (I used coarse).
How to Make Healthy Strawberry Mochi at Home (Made in the Microwave) - strawberry mochi
Koshi An

or,

  • Sweetened White Bean Paste (a.k.a. Shiro An) – the white bean version of the sweetened red bean paste.
How to Make Healthy Strawberry Mochi at Home (Made in the Microwave) - strawberry mochi
Shiro An

How to Make

How to Make Healthy Strawberry Mochi

STEP 1

How to Make Healthy Strawberry Mochi at Home (Made in the Microwave) - strawberry mochi

Puree or mash strawberry until liquidy. In a microwave-safe bowl (preferably glass, like pyrex), mix the sweet rice flour with the sugar (I used honey powder) and strawberry puree **please note: these photos were taken during my recipe-testing phase. You’ll need a larger bowl than what I use here since I was making a smaller batch.

STEP 2

How to Make Healthy Strawberry Mochi at Home (Made in the Microwave)

Mix all the ingredients together

STEP 3

How to Make Healthy Strawberry Mochi at Home (Made in the Microwave)

Microwave the combined dough in the microwave for 2 minutes. Use a solid metal spoon to stir the cooked mochi mixture. Return to microwave and heat for an additional 1 minute.

STEP 4

How to Make Healthy Strawberry Mochi at Home (Made in the Microwave)

Drop the hot mochi dough onto a surface floured with corn starch. Handle with care, or use vinyl gloves, as the mochi dough will be HOT. Unfortunately, you have to work quickly to shape the mochi before they cool.

Use kitchen shears/ scissors to cut the mochi into 5 pieces.

STEP 5

How to Make Healthy Strawberry Mochi at Home (Made in the Microwave)

Wrap the mochi dough around the prepared filling and dust the finished mochi with more corn starch

STEP 6

How to Make Healthy Strawberry Mochi at Home (Made in the Microwave)

Let cool before enjoying~

Watch the Video Tutorial in Pinterest (video here)

How to Make Healthy Strawberry Mochi at Home (Made in the Microwave) - strawberry mochi

Frequently Asked Questions

Can you make mochi using regular rice flour instead of glutinous rice flour?

The short answer is no. To make mochi, you need glutinous rice flour. Although both flours are made with rice, they come from different types of rice, long-grain rice and sweet long-grain rice, respectively. Rice flour is similar to wheat flour in many ways and becomes a standard dough or batter (best for cakes and noodles). Glutinous rice flour turns into a sticky dough, which is best for making mochi or glutinous rice balls (also called dango or tangzhong).

Rice flour and glutinous rice flour are no substitutes for each other, so be careful — those bags can look very similar!

How is rice flour different from glutinous rice flour?

Also called rice powder, all types of rice flour come from milling long-grain rice. Rice flour can come from a wide variety of non-sticky types of rice, while glutinous rice flour comes from the few sticky AKA sweet types of rice in the Oryza sativa var. Glutinosa family. Sticky rice has lots of amylopectins, a sticky starch not found in regular rice flour.

Although rice flour is an excellent substitute for wheat flour, glutinous rice flour is best reserved for food with a chewier and stickier bite, like mochi.

Recipe Variations and Optional Add Ins:

  • Here are some variations of my strawberry mochi! Feel free to check it out
How to Make Healthy Strawberry Mochi at Home (Made in the Microwave)
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How to Store Strawberry Mochi

  • The mochi can be kept covered at room temperature for up to 24 hours. For longer storage, I would freeze the mochi in a plastic freezer bag or an airtight container, then defrost at room temperature when ready to eat.
  • The reason I don’t recommend storing them in the fridge is that mochi usually tend to develop a weird waxy, hard texture when stored in the fridge. So eat within a day or freeze for best results.
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Final Tips

  • Use a solid metal spoon (wooden spoons might break!) to stir the cooked strawberry mochi mixture so that the cooked and uncooked parts are evenly mixed
  • Use a microwave-safe bowl, preferably glass like pyrex

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How to Make Healthy Strawberry Mochi at Home (Made in the Microwave)

3 Ingredient Strawberry Mochi Made in the Microwave

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Prep Time 2 mins
Cook Time 3 mins
Course Dessert
Cuisine Japanese
Servings 6 mochi
Calories 118 kcal

Ingredients
  

Mochi Ingredients

  • 8 oz fresh strawberries, pureed
  • 2-4 Tbsp granulated sugar of choice**
  • 1 cup mochiko flour, sweet rice or glutinous rice flour about 140 g

Other Ingredients

  • 1/4 cup corn, potato or tapioca starch
  • 1/2 package sweetened white bean paste shiro-an

Instructions
 

Before You Make the Mochi

  • Prepare mochi filling by rolling about 1-2 Tablespoons of sweetened bean paste filling into balls. Set aside. If you would like to eat the mochi plain, you can skip this step.
  • Sprinkle the starch onto a clean dish or baking pan. Set aside.

Make the Mochi

  • Roughly dice strawberries and puree in a mini blender until liquidy. Some chunks are ok
  • In a microwaveable glass bowl (like Pyrex), mix the strawberry puree with sugar and sweet rice flour until a smooth dough forms
  • Microwave the strawberry-mochi mixture for 2 minutes
  • Use a SOLID METAL spoon (wooden spoons might break!) to stir the cooked mochi so that the cooked and uncooked parts are evenly mixed
  • Microwave the mochi mixture again, this time for 1 minute
  • Pour the cooked mochi onto the baking pan sprinkled with starch
  • Cut the mochi into 6 pieces using scissors
  • Eat as is, or fill with prepared sweetened white bean filling. Enjoy!

Notes

**Use 2 Tbsp if you’re using a sweet filling. Use 4 Tbsp if you’re eating plain. I used raw cane (white) granulated sugar for this because I wanted the color of the mochi to be as light as possible. But you can also use coconut sugar, maple sugar or brown sugar, or sugar-free options such as monk fruit sweetener 
 
Check out the recipe video I made, here!

Nutrition

Calories: 118kcalCarbohydrates: 26gProtein: 2gFat: 1gSaturated Fat: 1gSodium: 1mgPotassium: 78mgFiber: 1gSugar: 2gVitamin A: 5IUVitamin C: 22mgCalcium: 9mgIron: 1mgZinc: 1mg***Net Carbs: 25g
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  1. LF says

    June 21, 2021 at 12:44 pm

    5 stars
    Can I do this without sugar at all?

    Reply
    • All Purpose Veggies says

      June 21, 2021 at 7:01 pm

      You can definitely make this without sugar by omitting sugar completely (if the strawberries are sweet enough) or by using a sugar free sub such as stevia or monk fruit sweetener. I also leave out the sugar if I’m using a very sweet filling like ice cream or nutella 🙂 Hope this helps!

      Reply
      • zo says

        February 6, 2022 at 8:15 pm

        When the mochi came out i felt like it could have for taste what should i add?

        Reply
        • All Purpose Veggies says

          February 13, 2022 at 9:13 am

          Hi Zo, You could add sugar to make the mochi dough sweeter (to taste) but I usually don’t recommend this if you’re using a sweet filling like sweetened bean paste, or even ice cream, since they’re sweet on their own.

          Reply
  2. Ram says

    April 6, 2022 at 8:40 pm

    2 stars
    You suggested different types of flour such as sweet rice, but did not give instructions for being that method.

    Reply
    • All Purpose Veggies says

      April 21, 2022 at 6:25 pm

      Hi Ram, thanks for the comment! Sweet rice flour is just another name for glutinous rice flour, so the method would be the same for both. Just be careful not to be confused with regular rice flour (non-glutinous), since they do not work for mochi recipes!

      Reply
  3. Lujain says

    April 22, 2022 at 3:37 pm

    this was very helpful, i used it to make my first patch of mochi and it turned out amazing. Keep up the good work.

    Reply
    • All Purpose Veggies says

      April 23, 2022 at 8:20 pm

      Hi Lujain, glad you enjoyed this recipe! It’s one of my favorite things to make when I have strawberries at home.

      Reply

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