rice cake filled with red bean paste

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ingredients:

• 3 ounces mashed sweetened
• red bean paste (anko)
• 1 rice cake
• 1 tablespoon sugar
• 2 tablespoons water
• suitable amount potato starch

step 1:

Put the rice cake, sugar and water in a microwave-proof container. Cover lightly with a plastic wrap and cook for 2 minutes at a 500-watt setting.

step 2:

Remove from the microwave and mix.

step 3:

Put the potato starch in a small container. Place the rice cake mixture over it. Let it cool off a little.

step 4:

When cool, sprinkle the potato starch lightly over it and cut in half with a knife.

step 5:

Form the mashed sweetened red bean paste into 2 balls.

step 6:

Wet your fingers with water. Roll out the two rice cakes and potato starch. Place a mashed sweetened red bean paste ball in the middle of each one. Wrap the rice cake around each ball to form the rice cake filled with red bean paste (daifuku).