Chewy Ogre Dumplings (Oni-Manjuu)

Name: Chewy Ogre Dumplings (Oni-Manjuu)
Yield: 10 servings
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 500 grams Sweet potatoes; 100 grams Sugar; 1/2 tsp Salt; 100 grams ★Cake flour; 15 grams ★Shiratamako

cookpad.japan @cookpad_jp

My mother taught me how to make this.
My mother's recipe uses baking powder as well, but I didn't use it this time.

If you don't have shiratamako, you can just use cake flour.
I use light brown sugar, so the pictured example is a little brown.
I received a tip on improving the brightness of the yellow: after removing the scum in Step 1, try adding in a little baking soda! Recipe by Suzumechan

My mother taught me how to make this.
My mother's recipe uses baking powder as well, but I didn't use it this time.

cookpad.japan @cookpad_jp

My mother taught me how to make this.
My mother's recipe uses baking powder as well, but I didn't use it this time.

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Ingredients

10 servings

500 gramsSweet potatoes
100 gramsSugar
1/2 tspSalt
100 grams★Cake flour
15 grams★Shiratamako

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Steps

1

Peel the sweet potatoes and cut into 1 cm chunks. Let soak in water for about 30 minutes and rinse to remove the scum. If you let it soak longer, the color will become a nice yellow.
2

Drain and transfer to a bowl. Coat with the sugar and let sit for about 1 hour. While doing this, some moisture will come out, but don't discard it.
3

Mix together the ★ ingredients. Add to the bowl around the sweet potatoes and let the ★ ingredients dissolve into the water that came out of the sweet potatoes.
4

Add the salt and mix well. Mix the sweet potatoes as well.
5

Line the steamer with parchment paper and place ball-sized lumps of the ingredients on top. Steam over high heat for 20 minutes.
6

I don't have a steamer, so I steam them in an earthenware pot. After about 10 minutes, there's no more water, so at about the 10 minute mark, add some hot water.
7

When the sweet potatoes can easily be pierced through with a skewer and the outside of the potatoes are shiny, it's done!