"Rice flour" has come to be used for bread, cakes, fried foods and thickening. Recently, bread using rice flour is lined up in the bread corner of convenience stores. Did you know that you can easily make sweets using such a remarkable ingredient "rice flour" at home?

This time, we participated in "HOBBY COOKING FAIR 2017", a food event with the theme of "connecting and handmade", which was held at Tokyo Big Sight on April 27th, 28th, and 29th, and actually "rice flour". I tried to make dorayaki using.

■ Hobby Cooking Fair

"HOB BY COOKING FAIR" is a large-scale event with the theme of "food" held every year. This year, in commemoration of the 10th anniversary of the event, various workshops were planned, such as cooking classes and cooking demos that you can participate in empty-handed.

■ Rediscover the charm of rice and rice flour!

The author participated in a workshop on "Mochimochi rice flour dorayaki made with seasonally changing bean paste." This workshop is sponsored by the Rice Flour Stable Supply Securing Support Organization, and is an event where you can cook and actually eat rice flour dorayaki on the spot while learning about the appeal of rice flour.

■ Attractiveness of rice flour

The two major attractions of rice flour are that it is "gluten-free" and that it can control calories. If you use rice flour, you can cook bread and sweets that even people with wheat allergies can eat. In addition, rice flour has finer particles than other flours, making it difficult to absorb oil. Therefore, it is possible to reduce calories even in dishes that use oil. This food is recommended for people who are allergic to wheat and who care about beauty and health.

■ Dorayaki made from rice flour

There are two types of dorayaki made this time: summer-themed rice flour ice cream and winter-themed pumpkin bean paste. Both use rice flour for the dough.


The ingredients for summer dorayaki (1 piece) are rice flour 30g (1.06oz), baking powder 1g (0.04oz), millet sugar 4g (0.14oz), soy milk 40ml (1.35us fl oz), and an appropriate amount of rice flour ice cream for bean paste. The ingredients for winter dorayaki (1 piece) are rice flour 13g (0.46oz), baking powder 1g (0.04oz), millet sugar 4g (0.14oz), soy milk 30ml (1.01us fl oz), pumpkin paste 7g (0.25oz), pumpkin paste 7g (0.25oz), white bean paste (commercially available) 20g (0.71oz), mixed nuts 5g (0.18oz). Soy milk can be changed to milk or water.


The first thing I worked on was summer dorayaki. Rice flour is less likely to be fooled than wheat flour. When I actually mixed it, it quickly became a thick dough that blended with other ingredients.




After mixing, hang it on a hot plate and bake two fist-sized doughs. If you put ice cream made of rice flour between these doughs, the summer dorayaki is completed.




The procedure for baking dorayaki in winter is almost the same. Here, in order to add color to the dough, pumpkin that has been crushed with a masher to make a paste is added at the stage of mixing the ingredients. Unlike wheat flour, rice flour is baked whitish, so if you add something with a color when mixing the ingredients, the color of the baked product will change.




Place a mixture of white bean paste, pumpkin, and chopped nuts between the baked dough. Adding chopped mixed nuts adds an accent to the texture.


At the end, you can freely decorate the dorayaki. Use the chocolate pen to draw illustrations and apply stencil art. The children who participated in the same workshop used chocolate pens to draw the characters' faces on Dorayaki.

■ I tried it

First, take a bite of summer dorayaki. The skin is chewy and moist. You can feel the flavor of rice firmly. Compared to dough made from wheat flour, rice flour dorayaki is characterized by its elasticity and firm texture. Rice flour ice cream sandwiched between dorayaki has a smooth texture and goes well with the dough! It is finished in dorayaki as a snack on a hot summer day.


Dorayaki in winter with pumpkin bean paste is a dish that you can feel the sweetness of pumpkin. The crispness of the mixed nuts is a nice accent. Dorayaki to accompany astringent tea.


In addition, there are various ways to arrange it, such as making Western-style sweets with chocolate or custard cream, or making a small light meal with ham or cheese. You can enjoy rice flour dishes in your favorite style. The recipe for rice flour dishes is posted on the official website of the Rice Grain Stable Supply Securing Support Organization "Rice Net".