Kanten Wagashi "Carp"

Introduce

Chef :

Yu-Art Kichijoji

Kanten Wagashi "Carp"

I try to make a carp in a pond with Nerikiri and Kanten (agar). This is complex recipe (I'm sorry). You can make it with Kanten and fruits, gummy candies… in stead of carps and other Nerikiri parts.

Ingredient

60 g

Cooking instructions

* Step 1

Ingredients

* Step 2

Mold

* Step 3

Divide the dough into each part.

* Step 4

Knead and colorize doughs.

* Step 5

* Step 6

Make 3 Carps--Divide the each colored dough into 3.

* Step 7

Make a carp with 3 colors of dough. Put 2 black sesames to make its eyes. Do the same thing and make more 2 carps.

* Step 8

Make water lily leaves--Divide Green dough into 6. Make each one round and press it. Make 1 slit from the center to the periphery side and widen it a little, like a fan with a sukeppa. Do the same thing and make 6 leaves.

* Step 9

Make gravels--Divide the dough for gravels into around 30. Crush black sesames with a back of a spoon. Cover these doughs with the sesames. Make them round and press them to make rather flate gravels.(If there is some black dough left. Use it.)

* Step 10

* Step 11

Make Agar liquid--Put the water in a pot. Add agar powder and mix them. Heat it up on a medium flame to boiling. Skim off the scum. the flame.

* Step 12

Turn down Simmer it for 2min.

* Step 13

Add the Granulated sugar. Mix them on medium flame. When it boils, Turn down the flame. Skim off the scum again. Simmer it for 1mi, and turn off the flame.

* Step 14

Mold the parts with Agar Liquid---Pure 3Tbsp (30ml) of Agar liquid. Put gravels. Pure Agar liquid to cover gravels. Leave it until the surface starts getting hard.

* Step 15

Put carps. Pure Agar liquid up to the half of the carps. Leave it until the surface starts getting hard. Put 3 water lily leaves.

* Step 16

Pure Agar liquid to the same level of the carps. Leave it until the surface starts getting hard. Put another 3 water lily leaves. Pure Agar liquid to cover the leaves.