Sakura mochi is not only delicious but also delightful looking as you can see in the photo below. Azuki (red bean) is a popular filling, but you can. A popular style of enjoying mochi is daifuku (), a mochi dumpling with a sweet filling.
Mochi works amazingly well with and is often paired with a wide variety of sweet and savory flavors, including Sakura. We will likely share more about “Mitarashi dango” in a future post but for now let’s return to the topic of delightful sakura mochi. To make mochi you first steam rice, then pound until it can be shaped and eaten. Sakuramochi (as pictured below) is a great example of both of these talents alongside “Mitarashi dango”, which is small rice cakes balls flavored with a sweet and savory soy sauce based sauce that is absolutely delightful. In addition, Japan has a talent for making sweets that are also savory. Many of traditional Japanese sweets use rice as the main ingredient. Not only is the taste contrast of the rice cake and the leaf of sweet and savory marvelous, but also the combination of the crisp sakura leaf with the sticky mochi rice cake is also perfect. However, this does make the sticky mochi rice cake easier to take a bite out of and adds another delightful aspect of texture to be enjoyed. The new variety for 2020 is Sakura Mochi, which takes its flavor profile from the popular traditional Japanese sweet of the same name. It is a soft, chewy, sticky rice cake with a sweetened Azuki red bean paste filling inside. The four ingredient treat has a dollop of sakura flavored sauce in the middle, encircled by pink mochi balls sitting on a layer of sakura petal laced red bean paste covering the sakura ice cream.
The rice is not quite as smooth as most rice treats you will find in Japan. Sakura Mochi, literally cherry blossom rice cake, is a traditional Japanese Wagashi () confection with more than 300 years of history. However, there are certain delicious treats you must learn to love while they are available during this already wonderful season and Sakura Mochi is one of them! This sticky ball of sweetened rice is covered by a salted sakura (or cherry tree) leaf to give you the perfect combination of sweet and savory. Though the sakura (cherry blossom) season is over, this is a sakura season treat to look forward to every year! Now the sakura blossoms (cherry blossoms) have completely fallen from the trees and it is time to miss not only the Sakura blossoms but also the Sakura shower that came after! You are likely enjoying the bright green leaves filling in the trees, which is a whole other type of beauty to enjoy after the sakura flower show is all gone.
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