Wagashi "Komug-Manju" Ume (Plum flower)

Name: Wagashi "Komug-Manju" Ume (Plum flower)
Yield: 6 pieces
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 40 g Plain flour; 2 g Baking Powder; 27 g Sugar; 15 ml Water; 120 g Red bean Paste (Bean jam); 10 g Plain flour for dusting and mixing in food colorings; 1/2 tsp Matcha powder; Food coloring (Red)

Yu-Art Kichijoji @cook_5876793

Tokyo

This is a recipe for making a basic Japanese sweet "Manjyu " with a drawing of Ume (Plum flower) on it. Ume (Plum flower) is a popular and joyous flower in Japan. It tells us that spring has come!

Yu-Art Kichijoji @cook_5876793

Tokyo

This is a recipe for making a basic Japanese sweet "Manjyu " with a drawing of Ume (Plum flower) on it. Ume (Plum flower) is a popular and joyous flower in Japan. It tells us that spring has come!

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Ingredients

6 pieces

40 gPlain flour
2 gBaking Powder
27 gSugar
15 mlWater
120 gRed bean Paste (Bean jam)
10 gPlain flour for dusting and mixing in food colorings
1/2 tspMatcha powder
Food coloring (Red)

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Steps

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Ingredients for 6 pieces.
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Utensils
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Pour the sugar into the water.
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Dissolve the sugar well.
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Mix the flour and the baking powder.
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Put them into the mixture(sugar + water). Mix them.
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Stretch and fold the dough several times. Pull it together. *Stop mixing the flour into the water mixture when the dough becomes like "squeezing an earlobe". *Add a little more flour when the dough is too sticky.
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Divide the dough into 6.
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Wrap the bean paste balls with the dough. Make them round. (Put dusting flour on your hands.)
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Make paints. Green: Mix Matcha, plain flour & water. Red: Mix res food coloring, plain flour & water.
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Paint plum flowers and branches with the paints.
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Put them in a steamer. Spray Water.
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Steam 10minuite over high heat.
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Cool them with covering cotton cloth. It's finished!

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Yu-Art Kichijoji @cook_5876793

on January 20, 2017 00:35

Tokyo

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