Hamster - Jouyo Manju (Wagashi)
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Yu-Art Kichijoji
Hamster - 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 tried making a round small animal. Djungarian Hamster with the ingredients!
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 egg shape. Do the same to make 5.
* Step 5
Paint patterns of a hamster with powder coffee and a purple food coloring. Make its ears with a drinking straw. Put its eyes with mixture of a purple food coloring, coffee powder and rice flour dissolved in water. Do the same and make 5 hamsters.
* Step 6
Put them in a steamer and spray water over them.
* Step 8
Take them out and cool them with a cotton clothes cover not to get dry.
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