I went to the Sapporo Shrine festival and still dream about this snack. The Japanese says kinako mochi but I’m trying to see if I can find a recipe of some sort and recreate it? I’ve also watched other videos of people walking through the shrine festival and don’t see anything else that can help me from their booth signs.
They were crunchy and light and sheet in the middle, thinking it’s just a variation of a mochi donut maybe? Thanks in advance!
by takoyakilicious
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Kinako is roasted soybean flour
Kinako is a powder made by grinding roasted soybean — so it will almost certainly just be mochi coated in kinako and then fried. The main variable would be the details of the mochi — a variant of mochi donuts is probably a good guess.
Reading what it is my best guest is that in order tu make them or something similar to that will be to fry dehydrated mochi (if possible in peanuts oil or any oil that wont change its flavor) and then cover them in kinako powder..
I can also see a fryer in the back, so that might be the way to go
Good luck OP!
Let us know if you can achieve it : )
**edited to add paragraphs (>__>)
Interesting. Is it similar to andagi?
It’s actually called きなこもっちー (Kinako mocchi), and it’s a little different from traditional きなこもち(kinako mochi). It’s a donut with a chewy, mochi-like texture, coated in a mix of kinako (roasted soybean flour) and sugar.
It’s pretty much the same as the ポン・デ・リング(Pon de Ring) from Mister Donut, or like mochi donuts you see in the U.S. The chewy texture comes from using shiratamako (glutinous rice flour) or tapioca flour in the dough.
[Here’s](https://recipe.rakuten.co.jp/recipe/1070049662/) a copycat recipe that uses tofu (in Japanese). [This one](https://www.hungryhuy.com/mochi-donut-recipe/) is a mochi donut recipe in English – you can shape the dough differently and coat the donuts in a mix of kinako and sugar.
Delicious is what it is