Mochi machine cracker#

If you try it, don’t forget to share your picture on Instagram, Facebook, or Twitter with #JustOneCookbook. I hope you enjoy making this homemade rice cracker recipe. With their adorable shapes, I think these rice crackers make a fun snack for parties too. I like to enjoy them with green tea for my afternoon snack when I crave something savory. Immediately after frying, season Kakimochi with your favorite flavors: salt, soy sauce, Furikake, Shichimi Togarashi, or even curry powder!Īlthough Kakimochi can be purchased easily at grocery stores in Japan, homemade ones are still the best! They are light and super crunchy. The dried mochi pieces will puff up like popcorn while deep frying in oil. You just need to cut mochi into thin slices, air dry them completely until the moisture is removed, then break into small pieces and deep fry. The process to make Kakimochi at home is very easy. This particular Okaki is called Kakimochi (かき餅) in Japanese.

Mochi machine cracker#

Kakimochi (かき餅) – Japanese Rice Cracker Recipeįor today’s rice cracker recipe, we will use mochi (sweet rice/glutinous rice) therefore, this is a type of Okaki instead of Senbei. There are several ways to make them: you can bake, grill (traditionally over charcoal), or deep-fry. Rice crackers come in various sizes, shapes (squares, rectangular, round, ball), and flavors (usually savory but sometimes sweet). Different Sizes, Shapes & Flavors for Rice Crackers Why hands, you might ask? In Samurai’s house, using cutlery at the beginning of the new year was considered bad luck, so people used their hands to scrape the big mochi into smaller pieces, instead of using a knife. You might noticed that I said “scraped the mochi with hands“. People didn’t want to toss the mochi used for New Year’s decoration (Kagami Mochi), so they scraped the mochi to smaller pieces with hands, dried them, and deep fried to enjoy the leftover mochi. Just like senbei, okaki has been around since Heian Period. Okaki (おかき) are rice crackers made of sweet rice/glutinous rice (もち米). That’s how senbei started to become popular in Japan. However, Japanese loved rice so much that they started making the crackers with rice instead. The Chinese rice crackers that were brought to Japan during Heian Period (789-1185) were made with flour (technically “flour crackers”). The origin of senbei is actually from China. Senbei (煎餅) or Osenbei (お煎餅) are rice crackers made of rice (うるち米). In Japan, there are two types of rice crackers: Senbei and Okaki. Rice crackers are a common snack in Asia where rice is the key staple food.

If you are an all-year-round mochi eater like me, don’t forget to check out my favorite mochi recipes at the end of this post! Homemade Rice Cracker Recipe I’ll show you a quick and easy homemade rice cracker recipe.

If you still have leftover rice cakes in your pantry or freezer and you’re not sure what to do with them, here’s a great solution. The Japanese New Year celebration was over a few months ago. Flavored with salt, soy sauce, or your favorite seasonings, this tasty savory snack will hit the spot! Let’s make fresh Kakimochi at home with this Japanese rice cracker recipe.