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

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Check Out Sakura Cherry Blossom On eBay. 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).

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook sakura: cherry blossom - jouyo manju (wagashi) using 5 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

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

In this treat, it looks like the sakura blossom and. In spring, you can get sakura manju which has a light pink dough - some varieties contain pickled and salted cherry blossom in the bean paste, while some only have a salted cherry blossom that decorates the top of the bun. Where to find Wagashi There are plenty of wagashi stores dotted around Japan, some dating back hundreds of years. I make a small Nerikiri Wagashi with only Nerikiri-dough colorized.

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.

Gradations of the colors give us a sense of spring. On the more Western side of the sweets scale, you can, of course, find sakura incorporated into cakes, doughnuts, cookies, mont blancs, you name it. Sakura kanten is similar to yokan jellied sweets, but is made with clear or translucent gelatin. Sakura petals may be embedded within the jelly, creating a visually striking cherry blossom dessert. Sakura manju is a wagashi pastry made of steamed dough that's filled with sweet bean paste.

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