Rhubarb Mochi Pie - Raparperi-mochipiirakka
It's rhubarb season!!! I love these pink&green stalks of sour deliciousness! I've been wanting to bake a pie with mochi muffin batter as I thought the consistency would suit this kind of a pie very well. And it did! The juicy and tart rhubarb on top of chewy mochi muffin layer, yum! The edges get the chewy and dense consistency of a mochi muffin and the center stays custardy soft (If you want the center to cook completely, you need to cover the surface after it starts to get colour and increase the baking time). Mochi muffin batter is made with sticky rice flour instead of wheat flour. It gives the pie a dense but soft and chewy structure (kind of difficult to describe without referring to mochi; if you have eaten mochi, you know how it is :D). Mochiko flour is also used in daifuku, which is a pillowy soft but still chewy Japanese rice "cake", usually filled with sweet red bean paste or similar. (Westerners usually speak of mochi when they are referring to daifuku.) If you love mochi, you have to try mochiko flour in baking.
Happy baking!
Rhubarb pie made with mochiko rice flour: Finland meets Asia in this lovely glutenfree pie. If you love mochimochi foods, you have to try this! Serve as is or with whipped cream or vanilla ice cream.
Ingredients:
- 2 rhubarb stalks (about 250 g)
- 2 Tbsp sugar
- 75 g butter, at room temperature
- 120 g sugar
- 1 large egg
- 65 g quark + 35 ml milk (or 65 g low-fat cream cheese + 35 ml milk)
- 1 tsp vanilla extract or 1/4 tsp vanilla powder
- 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 150 g mochiko or glutinous rice flour
Instructions:
- Cut the rhubarb stalks to thin slices. (Don't peel the outer layer off if you have young stalks, as that would remove the lovely pink colour). Sprinkle with 2 Tbsp sugar and leave to macerate while you prepare the batter.
- Beat soft butter with sugar until creamy. Add the egg and beat until the batter gets fluffy.
- Stir quark, milk and vanilla to the batter. Mix the rice flour with baking powder and fold into the batter. Spread the batter to a prepared pie tin.
- Spread the rhubarb slices on top. Bake in 180 C for about 45 minutes until the edges turn brown.
Suomalainen raparperipiirakka kohtaa Aasian tässä mochitaikinapohjaisessa piirakassa. Reunat paistuvat pehmeän tiiviiksi ja keskiosa jää vaniljakastikkeisen valuvaksi, jolloin piirakka ei välttämättä vaadi mitään muuta kylkeensä. Sen voi toki halutessaan tarjota kermavaahdon tai jäätelön kanssa.
Ainekset:
- 2 raparperin vartta (noin 250 g)
- 2 rkl sokeria
- 75 g voita, huoneenlämpöistä
- 120 g sokeria
- 1 kananmuna (miel. L-kokoinen)
- 65 g rahkaa + 35 ml maitoa
- 1 tl vaniljauutetta tai 1/4 tl vaniljajauhetta
- 1/2 tl leivinjauhetta
- 150 g mochiko-jauhoa (glutinous/sticky rice flour: saa itämaisista kaupoista)
Valmistusohjeet:
- Leikkaa raparperi ohuiksi viipaleiksi (älä kuori varsia, jos ei ole ihan pakko: näin ne jäävät kauniin pinkeiksi). Ripottele päälle 2 rkl sokeria ja jätä mehustumaan.
- Vatkaa pehmeä voi ja 75 g sokeria yhteen. Lisää muna ja vatkaa kuohkeaksi.
- Sekoita rahka, maito ja vanilja taikinaan. Sekoita leivinjauhe riisijauhoihin ja kääntele taikinan joukkoon. Levitä taikina voideltuun piirakkavuokaan.
- Levitä raparperiviipaleet taikinan päälle. Pista 180 asteessa noin 45 minuuttia tai kunnes reunat ruskistuvat.
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