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Sakura Wagashi
Sakura Wagashi
Recipe Details
Sakura Wagashi is a kind of Japanese specialty. The smell, color and texture are both from, and made with real Sakura. Wagashi is the companion of tea. Experts said Japanese take green tea and Wagashi together because sugar ingredients in Wagashi will neutralize the alkaline in tea, which causes less harm to stomach.
Ingredients
General Ingredients
Step by Step Instructions
Step 1
Dissolve glutinous rice flour into water and add 10g of bean paste. Heat the mixture and stir at the same time until it becomes less sticky
Step 2
Add ¼ drops of red food coloring to make the mixture light pink.
Step 3
Rinse and chop salted Sakura
Step 4
Mix it with the remaining bean paste
Step 5
Shape the tail parts by a chopstick and make it Sakura leaf like. Stab some holes and carve some lines on the tips as flower buds
Step 6
Repeat the above step until all “dough petals” of Sakura are made. Piece them together as a flower
Ingredients
General Ingredients
Sakura Wagashi is a kind of Japanese specialty. The smell, color and texture are both from, and made with real Sakura. Wagashi is the companion of tea. Experts said Japanese take green tea and Wagashi together because sugar ingredients in Wagashi will neutralize the alkaline in tea, which causes less harm to stomach.
Step by Step Instructions
Step 1
Dissolve glutinous rice flour into water and add 10g of bean paste. Heat the mixture and stir at the same time until it becomes less sticky
Step 2
Add ¼ drops of red food coloring to make the mixture light pink.
Step 3
Rinse and chop salted Sakura
Step 4
Mix it with the remaining bean paste
Step 5
Shape the tail parts by a chopstick and make it Sakura leaf like. Stab some holes and carve some lines on the tips as flower buds
Step 6
Repeat the above step until all “dough petals” of Sakura are made. Piece them together as a flower