Sticky Rice Cake Wrapped Sweet Azuki Bean Paste

Name: Sticky Rice Cake Wrapped Sweet Azuki Bean Paste (Ohagi)
Yield: Makes twelve
Cuisine: Japanese
Ingredients: 410 g/14¼ oz can azuki beans (canned in water, with sugar and salt); 90 g/3½ oz/6½ tbsp caster (superfine) sugar; pinch of salt; 150 g/5 oz glutinous rice; 50 g/2 oz Japanese short grain rice

Ohagi

Preparation info

Makes
twelve

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Japanese Cookbook

By Emi Kazuko and Yasuko Fukuoka

Published 2024

About

This tea-time snack, Ohagi, is an absolute favourite among all ages in Japan. If is also made on occasions such as birthdays and festivals. Decorate with camellia leaves.

Ingredients

150 g/5 oz glutinous rice
50 g/2

Asia
Japan
Snack
Birthday
Vegan
Gluten-free

Method

Put the two kinds of rice into a sieve, wash well under running water, then drain. Leave for 1 hour to dry.
Tip the rice into a heavy cast-iron pan or flameproof casserole with a lid, and add 200ml/7fl oz/scant 1 cup water.
Cover and bring to the boil, then reduce the heat to low and simmer for 15 minutes, or until a slight crackling noise is heard fr