which is why it’s also called sweet rice flour. It’s a staple ingredient in recipes for mochi and other desserts, but it’s versatile enough to use in savory dishes too, like rice cakes.

Mochi, the chewy rice cake made from glutinous rice, holds a cherished place in Japanese cuisine. Across the country, ...

The chefs of Otowasan Kannonji Temple teach us how to make sankirai mochi rice cakes! This delicious treat is the head nun's specialty! Simply knead rice flour, wrap in sankirai leaves and steam.

Instead of the laborious process required to make mochi the most traditional way, we offer an easy workaround by using sweet rice flour ("mochiko" in Japanese) to create the same chewy ...