Recipe: Perfect Sakura: Cherry blossom - Jouyo Manju (Wagashi)

Sakura: Cherry blossom - Jouyo Manju (Wagashi). Great recipe for Sakura: Cherry blossom - Jouyo Manju (Wagashi). This is a traditional Japanese sweet which is a bean paste ball wrapped with dough of grated Yamaimo & Jouyo-ko (rice flour). I draw Sakura (Cherry blossom) on it with a pink food coloring!

In spring, you can get sakura manju which has a light pink dough - some varieties contain pickled and salted cherry blossom in the bean paste, while some only have a salted cherry blossom that decorates the top of the bun. Where to find Wagashi There are plenty of wagashi stores dotted around Japan, some dating back hundreds of years. Sakura means cherry blossoms in Japanese and both flowers and leaves are used in Japanese cooking, especially with making sweets. You can have Sakura: Cherry blossom - Jouyo Manju (Wagashi) using 5 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Sakura: Cherry blossom - Jouyo Manju (Wagashi)

1. Prepare 20 g of Grated Yamaimo （Yam).
2. Prepare 40 g of Sugar.
3. It's 25 of gJouyo-ko (fine rice flour).
4. You need 75 g of Koshi-aｎ (Red beam jam).
5. It's of ＋ Food coloring.

Watch How to Make Sakura Mochi All kinds of beautiful wagashi in the shape of sakura blossoms come out across Japan around hanami time, including sakura mochi. One of the quintessential foods of the spring season, sakura mochi is a pink-colored rice cake that is sweeter than your regular daifuku mochi. Sakura manju is a wagashi pastry made of steamed dough that's filled with sweet bean paste. The bean paste may be mixed with chopped salted sakura leaves and petals, while the flour-based dough may be white or colored pink and garnished with a sakura blossom.

Sakura: Cherry blossom - Jouyo Manju (Wagashi) instructions

1. Ingredients for 5 pieces.
2. Add 40g of sugar into 20g of grated Yamaimo. Mix them well. Put the Yamaimo mixture into 27g of "jouyo-ko (rice flour)"..
3. Mix them. Put the rice flour onto the yamaimo mixture and fold it. Divide the dough into 5..
4. Extend a dough into a circle as using dusting flour. Make the center thick. Wrap a bean jam ball with it. Make it round. Do the same to make 5..
5. Dissolve red food coloring and rice flour in a little water..
6. Draw a sakura flower and 2 petals..
7. (A petal of Sakura has a heart shape. Its flower has 5 petals).
8. Do the same and make 5 Manju..
9. Put them in a steamer and spray water over them..
10. .
11. Then cool them with a cotton clothes cover not to get dry..

Most folks may already know that one of Japan's most popular flavors is matcha, the powdered version of tea ceremony fame. Lesser known is the country's love for sakura, or cherry blossom flavors. Available a few weeks before the first blooms, these are a must for enjoying the cherry blossom season. Sakura: Cherry blossom - Jouyo Manju (Wagashi) This is a traditional Japanese sweet which is a bean paste ball wrapped with dough of grated Yamaimo & Jouyo-ko (rice flour). I draw Sakura (Cherry blossom) on it with a pink food coloring!