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Imomochi(potato rice cake)/Imodango(potato dumplings) | Our Regional Cuisines

RECIPE

Ingredients (for 4 persons)

  • potatoes 800g
  • soy sauce appropriate quantity
  • oilseed perilla appropriate quantity
  • salt small quantity
  • sugar appropriate quantity
  • butter appropriate quantity
  • white sesame seeds appropriate quantity
  • starch small quantity

How to cook

  • 1. Boil the potatoes and put them in a mortar and pestle after they cool down until they become sticky like rice cakes. (If potato starch is added, mash the potatoes while they are still hot.)

  • 2. Roll 1 into a shape and bake in a hot frying pan with butter.

  • 3. Grind sesame seeds and sesame seeds, add sugar and soy sauce, and make sauce.

  • 4. Garnish with sauce. Top with butter if desired.

Recipe Arrangements

provider : Kouio Gakuen Culinary and Confectionery College

Recipes vary depending on the region and home.

This recipe video has been partially arranged to make it easier to cook at home.

Contact

Food Cultures Office, Overseas Market Development and Food Cultures Division, Food Industry Affairs Bureau, Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries

Tel:+81-3-3502-5516