Toasted Mochi

Mochi, cakes made of pounded rice, is an important part of the Japanese New Year. There are mochi-making parties at the end of December and everyone eats mochi in their soup on new year’s day. Many people have “kagami mochi”–two round balls of mochi topped with an orange–as a holiday decoration that is cracked apart and eaten in early January. But you don’t have to pound your own mochi, it’s sold in precut blocks or small rounds. Here is a simple and filling snack of mochi.
Toasted Mochi
serves 1
1 cake mochi, round or rectangle
1 tsp soy sauce
1 strip nori (seaweed paper)
Brush the mochi with soy sauce. Arrange on aluminum foil in the toaster oven. Toast until lightly browned and puffy. Remove from toaster oven. Heat the nori in the toaster oven for a few seconds. Wrap the mochi in nori and enjoy.