About the Recipe
Although you may think of short grain rice when the word "mochi" is mentioned, you can also create soft, oozy, delicious mochi snacks using potato. When I say potato, I mean a waxy potato like a Charlotte or a Desiree as these make the best mochi in my experience. As long as you don't mind getting your hands a little bit sticky (when you make your mochi patties) these mochi are really quite simple to make and a great, unusual way to serve up potatoes as a snack.
Ingredients
300g / 10oz waxy potatoes like Charlotte or Desiree varieties
1 tbsp sugar
1 - 2 tbsp milk
4 tbsp potato flour
1 tbsp vegetable oil
some soy sauce
1/2 -
1/3 nori sheet
Preparation
peel and cut the potatoes into chunks
cover the potatoes with water in a saucepan. bring to the boil and cook for 10 - 12 minutes or until softened
drain the water and mash the potatoes well in a saucepan
add the sugar, milk and potato flour. mix together well
next, wet your fingers and palms to avoid the potato mixture sticking to your hands. take 1 dessert spoon of potato mixture and place it in your palm. form into a round flat mochi shape
repeat until all the potato mixture is used
heat 1 tbsp of vegetable oil in a frying pan. carefully put the potato mochi into a frying pan using a slice. fry on a medium/high heat for 3 minutes or until lightly browned. then, turn over and fry another 2 minutes
cut the nori sheet into 10 small squares
season the mochi with a good splash of soy sauce and then turn off the heat immediately
remove the mochi from the pan and place a square of nori on each side of each mochi
eat your mochi while they are hot