Snowman - Jouyo Manju (Wagashi)
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Yu-Art Kichijoji
Snowman - 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). Sense of the season is very important for Japanese Sweet. So I made a small Snowman with this ingredient for winter!
Cooking instructions
* Step 1
Ingredients for 10 pieces.
* Step 2
There are several types of Japanese Yam potatoes. It's good to use freeze-dried yam powder for making sweets. *Grated Yam 40g = 10g Yam powder + 30ml Water
* Step 3
Jouyo ko is one of rice flour which is made of non glutinous rice and finely ground one.
* Step 4
Wrap red bean jam balls with a paper towel to take their water.
* Step 6
Make dough & Divide it into 10---Add 80g of sugar into 40g of grated Yamaimo. Mix them well. Put the Yamaimo mixture into 50-55g of "jouyo-ko (rice flour)". Mix them.
* Step 7
Put the rice flour onto the yamaimo mixture and fold it. Divide the dough into 10, as using dusting flour.
* Step 8
Make Snowmen with the dough & bean jam.---Extend a dough into a circle as using dusting flour. Make the center thick. Wrap a bean jam ball with the dough. Make it oval.
* Step 9
Pinch it with chopsticks to make its neck. Make paints with food colorings, rice flour and water.
* Step 10
Put eyes with the blue paint. Put a mouth with the red paint. Put buttons with the green paint.
* Step 11
Put them in a steamer and spray water over them. Steam them for 8 minuites. Then cool them with a cotton clothes cover not to get dry.
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