Cookbook:Yubeshi (Japanese Walnut Mochi Confection)

Ingredients

 * Walnuts, coarsely chopped
 * Sugar
 * Soy sauce
 * Water
 * Sweet glutinous rice flour (shiratama-ko)

Procedure

 * 1) Put sugar, soy sauce, and water in a pan. Simmer until sugar melts and boils, stirring so as not to burn.
 * 2) Add rice flour, and mix well to form a dough.
 * 3) Heat dough in a microwave for 30–40 seconds, take it out, and mix well. Repeat this until it gets brown.
 * 4) Mix walnuts into the dough.
 * 5) Put the dough back on the heat another 1–2 times. When it gets brown solidly, the dough is finished.
 * 6) Place the dough into a flat container and let it cool.