Cherry Blossom Sweet Bean Paste
All of a sudden, I thought "Couldn't I make this with things I already have in my pantry?"
If you add too much food coloring, the color will just look tacky, so watch over it.
*The first picture looks slightly muted, but it's a much softer pastel color. Two leaves seem to be about right. You can also try using store-bought chunky red bean paste or smooth bean paste. For about 110 g. Recipe by Makunouchi
Cherry Blossom Sweet Bean Paste
All of a sudden, I thought "Couldn't I make this with things I already have in my pantry?"
If you add too much food coloring, the color will just look tacky, so watch over it.
*The first picture looks slightly muted, but it's a much softer pastel color. Two leaves seem to be about right. You can also try using store-bought chunky red bean paste or smooth bean paste. For about 110 g. Recipe by Makunouchi
Cooking Instructions
- 1
Rinse the cherry blossoms and leaves, then soak in clean water for 1-2 hours. Dry thoroughly and mince.
- 2
Add ingredients marked with a 〇 to a small saucepan (preferably Teflon) and let stand for about 20 minutes. Mix in a small amount of food coloring until you've reached the desired color, then warm over low heat.
- 3
Stir the mixture constantly until you achieve the desired consistency. Take the mixture off the heat and mix in the cherry blossoms and leaves that you prepared in Step 1 and/or the liqueur. Now it's done.
- 4
For this batch, I used red yeast rice powder (nature's own food coloring). It transforms into a different color...
- 5
I bough the dried white sweet bean paste at Tomizawa shop. It's sooooo convenient.
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"Wataboushi" (the headdress worn by the bride in a traditional Japanese wedding).
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Cherry Blossom Bean Paste Rolls
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Cherry Blossom Dorayaki
- 9
For this, I just minced a cherry leaf and added it to a chunky red sweet bean paste. It takes about one leaf for every 50 g of bean paste.
- 10
I tried making this with twice the amount of cherry blossoms and no food coloring, and this is the color it came out as.
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Cherry blossom cookies.
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I used this to make my favorite sakura-mochi (cherry blossom rice cakes).
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This spring, I made anko-dama (bean paste balls).
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