Sakura: Cherry blossom - Jouyo Manju (Wagashi)
Sakura: Cherry blossom - Jouyo Manju (Wagashi)

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Sakura: Cherry blossom - Jouyo Manju (Wagashi) is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. Sakura: Cherry blossom - Jouyo Manju (Wagashi) is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They are nice and they look fantastic.

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 cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Sakura: Cherry blossom - Jouyo Manju (Wagashi):
  1. Prepare 20 g Grated Yamaimo (Yam)
  2. Make ready 40 g Sugar
  3. Get 25 gJouyo-ko (fine rice flour)
  4. Prepare 75 g Koshi-an (Red beam jam)
  5. Make ready + Food coloring

One of the quintessential foods of the spring season, sakura mochi is a pink-colored rice cake that is sweeter than your regular daifuku mochi. 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.

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

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 made with mochi (sweet rice) has the most varieties among all wagashi. The most-well known are probably Kashiwa Mochi, mochi filled with sweet azuki bean paste and wrapped in kashiwa (oak) leaves, Sakura Mochi, sweet pink mochi filled with sweet azuki bean paste and wrapped in salty picked sakura cherry blossom leaves, and Warabimochi, chewy, translucent mochi covered in sweetened. 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.

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