Pork and Root Vegetables with Mochi Waffles

Mochi waffles can be made easily with Mochiko sweet rice flour on a waffle iron. Served with pork and root vegetables with soy vinegar sauce, they complement each other wonderfully.
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If you have a waffle maker, mochi waffles can be made simply by mixing sweet rice flour and water. They are as crispy as grilled mochi.
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Uruchi-komeko (non-glutinous or regular rice flour) and mochiko or shiratamako (glutinous or sweet rice flour) are all gluten-free. The notion of “glutinous rice” refers to its sticky, glue-like texture when cooked. Rice does not contain gluten, a particular set of proteins found in wheat products, thus it is gluten-free.
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Make this dish completely gluten-free by using gluten-free substitutes for other ingredients as needed.
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Japanese ingredients such as mochiko, dashi, mirin, and gobo can be purchased online or at Asian grocery stores.
4 servings

Ingredients
For the mochi-waffles
1¼ cups (200g) | Mochiko sweet rice flour |
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½ teaspoon (3g) | salt |
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¾-1 cup (180-220ml) | water |
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The following ingredients need to be cut into ¾ inch (2cm) pieces:
2.8oz/80g | pork |
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⅓ (80g) | gobo arrowroot, parsnip, or any other root vegetable (boiled, about ⅔ cup) |
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½ (80g) | sweet potato (boiled, about ⅔ cup) |
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1 (60g) | carrot (boiled, about ½ cup) |
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½ (8oz/227g) can | water chestnut or lotus root |
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¼ (30g) | green pepper (about ¼ cup) |
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Sesame oil for sautéing |
For the sauce
2½ teaspoons (15ml) | soy sauce |
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2 teaspoons (12ml) | black vinegar |
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2 teaspoons (9ml) | mirin |
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2 teaspoons (9ml) | sake Japanese rice wine |
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1½ teaspoons (7ml) | sesame oil |
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For the slurry
1 tablespoon (10g) | rice flour |
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1 tablespoon (15ml) | water |
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Directions
Preheat the waffle maker.
To make mochi waffles, mix sweet rice flour, salt, and water in a bowl.
Pour the batter into the waffle maker. Cook both sides until crispy.
In a skillet over medium high heat, add sesame oil. When fragrant, sauté pork. When the pork is cooked, add all the vegetables and continue to cook.
In a small bowl, combine all the ingredients for the sauce. Add the sauce to the pork mixture and simmer.
In another bowl, combine rice flour and water to make a slurry. Mix the slurry into the pork mixture. When the sauce thickens, turn off the heat. Serve with the mochi waffles.
- This recipe uses US customary units. Measurement equivalents include: 1 teaspoon = 5ml, 1 tablespoon = 15ml, and 1 US cup = 237ml or 8fl oz. (1 metric cup = 250ml or 8.5fl oz.)
- The cooking time using microwave oven in this recipe is based on 1,000W in the US.
- The temperature and baking time may be different depending on the oven used. Please adjust accordingly.
- All rice flour is naturally gluten-free. Make this dish completely gluten-free by using gluten-free substitutes for other ingredients as needed.