Ichigo Daifuku - Japanese Sweet bean and Strawberry ball

Step 6 Snugly and Completely Enclose the Berries

Take one of your prepared strawberries.
Holding it by the base, wrap one of your dough discs around it, stretching it gently and pinching it at the bottom to seal it. You want it to snugly and completely enclose the berries.

Lucky berries!

Be careful that the berries don't pierce the dough. It's not too hard...the dough is pretty forgiving.

Repeat with the rest of the strawberries. After they're done, dust them gently with rice flour or cornstarch, individually wrap them and refrigerate until ready to eat.



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Comments

[bcnr33skyline187]

do you have to bake it

[Lizzio]

Nope. It's done.

[bcnr33skyline187]

sweet!!, is it easy to find ice flor

[xenobiologista]

Go to Asian grocery stores. I don't think you necessarily have to buy the specific brand. Make sure it's GLUTINOUS rice flour though, not regular rice flour.

[jsharpe3]

whats the difference between glutinous rice flour and rice flour?

[xenobiologista]

There's regular rice and glutinous rice. Glutinous rice has more amylopectin and less amylose than other kinds of rice so it's INCREDIBLY sticky, not to be confused with what Americans sometimes call "sticky rice" which is just a slightly stickier variety of regular rice. (It doesn't have the gluten protein that some people are allergic to though, it's just glutinous as in glue-y, not glutenous.) So, regular rice flour vs. glutinous rice flour also have different textures. Glutinous rice flour often gets used to make ball-shaped dessert that need to hold together and have a slightly bouncy texture like the above.

Here's the gory details of the difference between regular and glutinous rice for those interested: http://www.ncsu.edu/news/press_releases/02_10/275.htm

[tesinopolis]

yay! I was literally just wondering how I can make these things yesterday--should have just looked it up on instructables, right? :D now can i make these just as easily with a thin inner layer of red bean paste, wrapped with white bean on the outside? or should i not bother because the 8 strawberries would probably all be gone by the time i finish the second bean paste batch?! ;) can't wait to try this out, looks delish! thank you so much for sharing!

[wibrle]

They look so good and look real easy to make, but there isn't an Asian or Japanese grocery store where I live. Do you know if or what I could use as a substitute for the rice flour?

[velcrotrainer]

 you can find sweet rice flour at hmart.com among other korean and japanese ingredients that are impossible to find in western grocery stores.
www.hmart.com/shopnow/shopnow_newsub.asp

[jongscx]

Publix or a similarly high-end grocer should have an international or oriental/mexican section. I've seen something similar done with cornstarch, but it's the glutenous rice's fineness that really makes this pastry, so I don't recommend it. Also try health-food stores or alternative-diet places... not my thing, but sometimes they carry the more esoteric fare.

[thingygoboom]

I used Whole Foods Rice Flour (it's really Bob's Red Mill white rice flour) and added more sugar