Salt-Cured Cherry Blossoms

Name: Salt-Cured Cherry Blossoms
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 1 Salt-cured cherry blossoms

I thought that if the salt-cured cherry blossoms used as decoration were fluffier, that they'd look cuter, especially on western styles sweets. This recipe came to me when I was making cherry blossom salt, cherry blossom sugar and cherry blossom powder. I really recommend this on cherry blossom flavored sweets!

The reason for soaking them for a long time to de-salt them is so that they won't taste salty. Drain the blossoms verrry gently, or they won't open up nicely. Just pat them dry gently with paper towels. Recipe by Minori105

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Ingredients

1Salt-cured cherry blossoms

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Steps

1

Fill a bowl with water, and soak the salt-cured cherry blossoms to de-salt them, for 20 to 30 minutes. It's best to soak them for a rather long time. (See Hints.)
2

Very gently pat them dry with paper towels. Line them up on a heatproof dish so that they don't overlap. (See Hints.)
3

Microwave for 1 minute. Take them out, and poke apart the flower petals very gently so that they will open up easier.
4

Microwave at 500w for 90 seconds to 2 minutes. Turn the flowers over and microwave for another minute to 90 seconds. Evaporate all the moisture.
5

The flowers are done.
6

I put them on Ne-ne's delicious roll cake.
https://cookpad.wasmer.app/us/recipes/142723-sakura-roll-cake-with-the-fragrance-of-spring

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Here's a closeup. I dusted the flowers with powdered sugar. They have such a nice cherry blossom fragrance.
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I used one as a topping on Ne-ne's Sakura Latte. This is so good too..
https://cookpad.wasmer.app/us/recipes/142719-spring-coloured-sakura-matcha-latte

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On Takuchi's Sakura Milk. The crushed kanten jelly is so good!
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I put them in jelly. They bloomed nicely.