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Great recipe for Sakura: Cherry blossom - Jouyo Manju (Wagashi). This is a traditional Japanese sweet which is a bean paste ball wrapped with dough of grated Yamaimo & Jouyo-ko (rice flour). I draw Sakura (Cherry blossom) on it with a pink food coloring! Sakura: Cherry blossom - Jouyo Manju (Wagashi) This is a traditional Japanese sweet which is a bean paste ball wrapped with dough of grated Yamaimo & Jouyo-ko (rice flour).
To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have sakura: cherry blossom - jouyo manju (wagashi) using 5 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Sakura: Cherry blossom - Jouyo Manju (Wagashi):
- Prepare 20 g Grated Yamaimo （Yam)
- Prepare 40 g Sugar
- Take 25 gJouyo-ko (fine rice flour)
- Make ready 75 g Koshi-aｎ (Red beam jam)
- Get ＋ Food coloring
Sakura means cherry blossoms in Japanese and both flowers and leaves are used in Japanese cooking, especially with making sweets. Watch How to Make Sakura Mochi Sakura manju is a wagashi pastry made of steamed dough that's filled with sweet bean paste. The bean paste may be mixed with chopped salted sakura leaves and petals, while the flour-based dough may be white or colored pink and garnished with a sakura blossom. Wagashi are often fashioned into shapes from nature, such as flowers, fruit and leaves, and include seasonal ingredients, such as cherry blossom leaves in the springtime and chestnuts in the fall.
Steps to make Sakura: Cherry blossom - Jouyo Manju (Wagashi):
- Ingredients for 5 pieces
- Add 40g of sugar into 20g of grated Yamaimo. Mix them well. Put the Yamaimo mixture into 27g of "jouyo-ko (rice flour)".
- Mix them. Put the rice flour onto the yamaimo mixture and fold it. Divide the dough into 5.
- Extend a dough into a circle as using dusting flour. Make the center thick. Wrap a bean jam ball with it. Make it round. Do the same to make 5.
- Dissolve red food coloring and rice flour in a little water.
- Draw a sakura flower and 2 petals.
- (A petal of Sakura has a heart shape. Its flower has 5 petals)
- Do the same and make 5 Manju.
- Put them in a steamer and spray water over them.
- Then cool them with a cotton clothes cover not to get dry.
The bean paste may be mixed with chopped salted sakura leaves and petals, while the flour-based dough may be white or colored pink and garnished with a sakura blossom. Wagashi are often fashioned into shapes from nature, such as flowers, fruit and leaves, and include seasonal ingredients, such as cherry blossom leaves in the springtime and chestnuts in the fall. Although sweet, they generally use less sugar than western desserts, giving them a refined flavor that pairs excellently with green tea. Most folks may already know that one of Japan's most popular flavors is matcha, the powdered version of tea ceremony fame. Lesser known is the country's love for sakura, or cherry blossom flavors.
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