{"id":207528,"date":"2024-12-09T16:26:38","date_gmt":"2024-12-10T02:26:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=207528"},"modified":"2024-12-09T16:26:38","modified_gmt":"2024-12-10T02:26:38","slug":"uh-mazing-recipes-val-melle-ulu-butter-mochi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2024\/12\/09\/uh-mazing-recipes-val-melle-ulu-butter-mochi\/","title":{"rendered":"东精影业<\/abbr>-mazing Recipes: Val Melle\u2019s \u02bbUlu Butter Mochi"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>
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Valerie Melle and ʻulu mochi<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The holiday season is here, and 东精影业<\/abbr> News is asking members of the University of Hawaiʻi<\/span> ʻohana to share their favorite recipes<\/a>. The hope is these recipes and the short stories that accompany them will give everyone some ideas for eats throughout the holidays along with some good feelings of the season.<\/em><\/p>\n

Valerie Melle wears multiple hats at Kauaʻi<\/span> Community College as a natural resource program associate, bee educator and researcher with the campus\u2019 apiary<\/a> and ʻUlutopia<\/a> project.<\/p>\n

“Since I\u2019ve been working with ʻUlutopia Project Director Brian Yamamoto and our flour production this year, I\u2019ve learned a lot about the consistency of ʻulu at various stages,” Melle said.<\/p>\n

Her recipe is a riff on traditional butter mochi, which was already a family favorite.<\/p>\n

“This familiar treat using ʻulu is a tradition of sorts for my family to welcome and send blessings to loved ones and inspiration for the next new year,” Melle said. “It is also a gift, if someone in our family makes the mochi to give away—especially during the holidays.”<\/p>\n

ʻUlu Butter Mochi<\/h2>\n

Ingredients<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  • 1 pound mochiko flour<\/li>\n
  • 2 cups organic cane sugar (can be cut down to 1½ cups)<\/li>\n
  • 1 tablespoon baking powdah<\/li>\n
  • 4 eggs<\/li>\n
  • 1 tablespoon vanilla<\/li>\n
  • 1 (12-ounce) can coconut milk<\/li>\n
  • 1 cup sweet ripe ʻulu, mashed<\/li>\n
  • ½ cup buttah, melted<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    Instructions<\/strong><\/p>\n

    1. Preheat da oven: Heat \u2018em up to 350°F<\/abbr>.<\/p>\n

    2. Prep da pan: Grease one 9×13 pan wit\u2019 non-stick spray, or line \u2018em wit\u2019 parchment so da mochi no stick.<\/p>\n

    3. Mix da dry stuff: In one big bowl, mix up da mochiko, sugar, an\u2019 baking powdah.<\/p>\n

    4. Add da wet stuff: Throw in da eggs, vanilla, coconut milk, ulu, an\u2019 melted buttah. Mix \u2018em till smooth. No mo\u2019 lumps!<\/p>\n

    5. Pour da batter: Dump all da batter inside da pan an\u2019 spread \u2018em nice an\u2019 even.<\/p>\n

    6. Bake \u2018em: Cook \u2018em in da oven fo\u2019 45–60 minutes, till da top stay golden brown an\u2019 da edges pull away from da pan. Stick one toothpick inside—if come out clean, you good!<\/p>\n

    7. Cool \u2018em down: Let da mochi cool down all da way before you cut \u2018em up into squares. Enjoy \u2018em warm or room temp, all good!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Kauaʻi<\/span> CC<\/abbr>‘s Valerie Melle shares her ʻulu mochi recipe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[61,62,63,64,65,71,14,1571,9,60,947,59,66],"class_list":["post-207528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-hawaii-community-college","tag-honolulu-community-college","tag-kapiolani-community-college","tag-kauai-community-college","tag-leeward-community-college","tag-uh-community-colleges","tag-uh-hilo","tag-uh-holiday-recipes","tag-uh-manoa","tag-maui-college","tag-uh-system","tag-uh-west-oahu","tag-windward-community-college","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207528"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":207542,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207528\/revisions\/207542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}