Homemade! Osechi Kuri-Kinton

Name: Homemade! Osechi Kuri-Kinton
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 15 chestnuts Candied Japanese chestnuts; 350 grams peeled Sweet potato; 2 Dried gardenia fruit; 1 Sugar (if necessary); 80 ml ＊Mirin; 100 ml ＊Syrup of the candied Japanese chestnuts; 1 tablespoon+ Sweet potato cooking water; 1 pinch Salt

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I don't like the store bought ones, so I personalize the sweetness and consistency of kuri kinton at home.

Peel the sweet potatoes thickly to preserve their color.
You can freeze this. I don't like to rush at the end of the year so I always make them before Christmas and freeze them. For easy-to-make amount. Recipe by Run

I don't like the store bought ones, so I personalize the sweetness and consistency of kuri kinton at home.

cookpad.japan @cookpad_jp

I don't like the store bought ones, so I personalize the sweetness and consistency of kuri kinton at home.

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Ingredients

15chestnuts Candied Japanese chestnuts
350 gramspeeled Sweet potato
2Dried gardenia fruit
1Sugar (if necessary)
80 ml＊Mirin
100 ml＊Syrup of the candied Japanese chestnuts
1tablespoon+ Sweet potato cooking water
1 pinchSalt

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Steps

1

Thickly peel sweet potatoes and cut them in half lengthwise. Cut into 1 cm thick slices and soak them in water.
2

Drain the sweet potatoes. Wrap the gardenia in gauze and crush. Add both to a pot with ample water and boil over medium heat until tender.
3

Reserve part of (about 100 ml) the cooking water, to use later for adjusting the consistency.
4

Drain the potatoes in a colander and blend in a food processor with mirin, candied chestnuts syrup, and 1 tablespoon cooking water.
5

Taste, add sugar as needed, and blend (I have never added sugar).
6

Put the mixture back into the pot over low heat and stir with a wooden spatula until it thickens a bit.
7

Add the chestnuts and salt, stir it a bit more and it's ready. It hardens when it cools, so turn off the heat when it still seems a bit loose.
8

If it gets stiff while stirring, add some of the cooking water to adjust.