Bobo and I prepared the Nutella yesterday, thinking that we'd make the mochi in the evening, but we didn't end up having enough time. By 'preparing' I just mean that we put little blobs of nutella on a tupperware lid to freeze so they'd be easier to put into the mochi. We got that tip from the second recipe mentioned above, and it proved to be a very useful tip because we found out warm mochi is already pretty hard to handle!
Today we mixed together the ingredients for the mochi. There were just three - the glutinous rice flour, the sugar, and the coconut milk. Oh, and some water - because our mixture was too thick at first.
When it looked about right, we poured the mixture into a greased dish and put it into the steamer.
The recipe said thirty minutes, but because our dish is quite wide and our steamer quite powerful, it only took us ten minutes (we did the chopstick test, and it came out clean).
Then we were ready to work with the mochi - I tried it by myself first because I didn't want the kids burning their hands, and found it a little warm to the touch, but managed to quickly make four proper mochi with the frozen Nutella blobs. After it had cooled down a bit I gave each child a little piece of mochi and they tried to flatten it so they could add the Nutella blob. This proved very tricky because the mochi is so very sticky!!!! Our hands were a grand mess. I decided to take a a bite of the sticky mess on my hands and realized it was delicious!! My husband took a reluctant bite and said, in surprise, 'Oh...they're good.'
The children loved them too, and were so happy with the runny Nutella filling!
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