{"id":3526,"slug":"tri-colored-autumn-rice-balls","title":"Tri-Colored Autumn Rice Balls","description":"Tri-colored autumn rice balls (san-shoku ohagi) is a simple a tea sweet, which was at one time served during the autumn equinox celebration. The name comes from a type of bush clover that only blooms in the fall. Serve these rice balls with your finest cup of tea.","ingredients_raw":["3 cups prepared steamed sweet rice","¼ cup toasted black sesame seeds, lightly crushed","1 tablespoon sugar","1 cup smooth Japanese bean paste (koshi-an), chilled","½ cup roasted soybean powder (kinako) or toasted ground pecans"],"ingredients_norm":["prepared steamed sweet rice","toasted black sesame seed","sugar","smooth japanese bean paste","roasted soybean powder or toasted ground pecan"],"steps":["Mix sesame seeds and sugar in a small bowl.","Moisten your hands with water and divide warm rice into 12 equal portions.","Shape 4 portions into balls. Moisten a clean dish towel and squeeze it dry.","Place 2½ tablespoons bean paste on towel; pat into a 4-inch circle.","Place 1 rice ball in the centre of the bean paste circle and use towel to mould bean paste around the rice ball.","Repeat this 3 more times, using another ½ cup of bean paste and the other 3 rice balls.","Place these on a nice serving tray. Flatten the remaining eight rice portions.","Form the remaining bean paste into 8 balls (about 2 teaspoons per ball). Place a bean paste ball in the centre of each piece of flattened rice and shape the rice around it.","Mould these stuffed rice balls into oval shapes. Roll 4 ovals in the sesame-sugar mixture. Roll the other 4 balls in the roasted soybean powder. Add these to the serving tray."],"categories":["Rice recipes","Recipes using rice","Japanese recipes","Appetizer recipes","Side dish recipes","Recipes using sugar"],"prep_time_minutes":null,"cook_time_minutes":null,"total_time_minutes":null,"servings":"6","yield_text":"12 rice balls","difficulty":"medium","source_name":"wikibooks","source_url":"https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook:Tri-Colored_Autumn_Rice_Balls","source_ref":"4513067","authors_url":"https://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Cookbook:Tri-Colored_Autumn_Rice_Balls&action=history","license":"CC BY-SA 4.0","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","extraction_confidence":null,"content_hash":"65397a9415c34cba2c6a8643342261f0394bbe5be4b0ef8a3117387335dbe4b1","created_at":"2026-08-02T14:43:28Z","updated_at":"2026-08-02T14:43:28Z","notice":null,"url":"https://recipecontextprotocol.com/recipes/tri-colored-autumn-rice-balls"}