Easy Handmade Strawberry red bean Mochi

Ingredients:

• 1 cup glutinous rice flour
  
• 1 cup water
• icing sugar (to taste)
  
• 1/2 cup cornstarch for dusting

• Fresh strawberries (a handful, or a punnet if you want extras to nibble on)
• 1 packet of premade red bead paste (from Asian Grocery stores, this will be more than you u can use)
  

Instructions:

1. Sift the icing sugar into the rice flour and mix with the water into a microwave safe bowl.
2. Nuke the sucker for a minute at a time and stir it between nuking sessions
3. Once in come out of the microwave, it will be really hot. Be Careful! Prepare a plate or space for the bit. Dust the work area with the cornstarch as well as your hands. Spoon out about a tablespoon of the sticky dough and dust it. You'll need to kind of stretch the dough gently into a round disc.
4. Dollop a small amount of red bean paste onto the centre and put a strawberry tip first into the red bean.
   
5. Pull and stretch gently the dough to cover the strawberry. Dust some more and place onto a plate.
6. And Voila!

Note: For a plain red bean mochi, the red bean is normally a bit tooooo soft to play with. It'll be better to chill a slab in the freezer and then cut them into bite size chunks and then wrap in the warm sticky glutinousy goodness.