Sakura: Cherry blossom - Jouyo Manju (Wagashi)
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Chef :
Yu-Art Kichijoji
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!
Cooking instructions
* Step 2
Add 40g of sugar into 20g of grated Yamaimo. Mix them well. Put the Yamaimo mixture into 27g of "jouyo-ko (rice flour)".
* Step 3
Mix them. Put the rice flour onto the yamaimo mixture and fold it. Divide the dough into 5.
* Step 4
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.
* Step 5
Dissolve red food coloring and rice flour in a little water.
* Step 6
Draw a sakura flower and 2 petals.
* Step 7
(A petal of Sakura has a heart shape. Its flower has 5 petals)
* Step 8
Do the same and make 5 Manju.
* Step 9
Put them in a steamer and spray water over them.
* Step 11
Then cool them with a cotton clothes cover not to get dry.
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