Nerikiri Wagashi: "Momiji" (Red Maple leaves)

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Tokyo

We look forward to seeing colorful leaves after mid autumn. Red maple leave are loved most among Japanese. Make Maple leaves with Nerikiri and Kuro-an (bean jam).

Nerikiri Wagashi: "Momiji" (Red Maple leaves)

We look forward to seeing colorful leaves after mid autumn. Red maple leave are loved most among Japanese. Make Maple leaves with Nerikiri and Kuro-an (bean jam).

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Ingredients

  1. 10 gRed bean paste (bean jam)
  2. 25 gNerikiri-dough
  3. Please refer to "Example: how to make a Dough for Nerikiri-Wagashi (with wheat flour)"
  4. Food colorings

Cooking Instructions

  1. 1

    Utensils.

  2. 2

    Ingredients

  3. 3

    Divide the dough into each part. Knead the Nerikiri-dough to make it smooth. Colorize each part; a red dough, a yellow one and a smaller orange one.

  4. 4

    Put the red dough and the yellow one together. And put the orange dough between the 2 colors to make a gradation from red to yellow.

  5. 5

    Rap the red bean jam with the dough. And make it round and squash it a little.

  6. 6

    Rube the edges of each color and gradate them.

  7. 7

    Put 5 draft lines radially on the top, from the off center point.

  8. 8

    Make diches on the side, between these lines.

  9. 9

    Nip to make 5 pointed ends of a leaf

  10. 10

    Stretch down the 5 pointed ends of the leaf.

  11. 11

    Draw lines radially to the pointed ends from the off center point.

  12. 12

    Put patterns with short lines on edged of the leaf.

  13. 13

    It's finished

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zu tang
zu tang @cook_5917528
Colorful momiji sweets!!! I really want green tea to go with!

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