Mitarashi Dango
Mitarashi Dango

Hello everybody, it is Jim, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, mitarashi dango. One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Mitarashi Dango is a traditional Japanese rice dumpling smothered in an irresistibly sweet soy glaze. The dumplings are skewered on a bamboo stick and enjoyed all year round. Make this street snack right in your own kitchen!

Mitarashi Dango is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions every day. Mitarashi Dango is something which I have loved my entire life. They are nice and they look fantastic.

To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook mitarashi dango using 9 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Mitarashi Dango:
  1. Make ready Dango
  2. Take 1 cup Hot Water (170° F)
  3. Prepare 1 cup Rice Flour
  4. Make ready Mitarashi Sauce
  5. Make ready 2 1/2 tbsp Soy Sauce
  6. Get 1/2 cup Water
  7. Get 1/3 cup Sugar
  8. Take 1 tbsp Cornstarch or Potato Starch
  9. Take 6 Bamboo Sticks

These kushi dangos are coated with a sweet soy sauce are called mitarashi. Mitarashi Dango is one of the many very traditional Japanese Mochi sweets. Small round Mochi balls are skewered on bamboo sticks and covered with a gooey sweet and salty brown sauce. Mitarashi Dango is a great snack and quite satisfying without being overly sweet.

Steps to make Mitarashi Dango:
  1. In a bowl mix the Rice Flour and Hot water together. You may,use your hands when it cools down. Mix until it is hard as your earlobe.
  2. Shape the dough into bite sized balls, and over medium heat steam the balls for about 25 minutes.
  3. Tip: When you take them out for mashing; if they break apart and are hard, STOP, leave them as is and stick them onto moist bamboo sticks.
  4. Take them out and mash them together. If its too hot you may dip it into cold water. Knead the dough.
  5. Roll into a stick form, cut into bite sized pieces with a wet knife, to avoid sticking. Shape the pieces into balls and put them onto a moist bamboo stick.
  6. For the Mitarashi Sauce, pour water into a pot.
  7. Then pour in the soy sauce.
  8. Next the sugar.
  9. And cornstarch or potatostarch.
  10. Boil and mix till the sauce thickens.
  11. Pour onto the dango balls, and Enjoy.

You may want to try it one afternoon with hot green tea. Mitarashi dango is a type of Japanese sweet. Its main ingredients are glutinous rice flour and sweet soy sauce glaze. The name of dango "Mitarashi" is said to be derived from water bubbles of "Mitarashi" where you purify your hands with water at the entrance of shrine. Mitarashi Dango is a Japanese sweet with mochi (rice cake) and thick, sweet sauce.

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