Hey everyone, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, easy sweet potato yokan (sweetened and jellied bean paste). It is one of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Great recipe for Easy Sweet Potato Yokan (Sweetened and Jellied Bean Paste). I received some Narutokintoki sweet potatoes, but since I don't really like sweet potatoes, I made yokan, which is my son's favorite. It's easy and tasty, so I posted it here.
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To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have easy sweet potato yokan (sweetened and jellied bean paste) using 3 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Easy Sweet Potato Yokan (Sweetened and Jellied Bean Paste):
- Get 2 medium size Sweet potato
- Take 70 grams Sugar
- Take 2 grams Salt
There are several flavors of Yokan in Japan. For example, Red bean, white kidney bean, chestnuts, persimmons, sweet potato, and so on. Yokan in Japanese or yang'geng in Chinese is a pastry based on azuki bean paste and gelling agent (agar-agar or gelatin). Mizu yokan with delightful chestnut inside red bean jelly, this easy and chilled Japanese sweet is perfect to enjoy on hot days.
Instructions to make Easy Sweet Potato Yokan (Sweetened and Jellied Bean Paste):
- Peel the sweet potatoes and slice them. Soak in water. Measure the sugar and salt.
- Steam or microwave the sweet potatoes until a bamboo skewer passes through easily.
- Place them in a food processor with the sugar and salt.
- Blend until smooth.
- Pour the mixture into a mold dampened with water. Cover tightly with plastic wrap, and press with a card or board to level. (The amount shown in the photo is a doubled recipe.)
- It's best to have another mold to use to press to level.
- Once it has cooled down slightly, store it in the fridge.
- Cut into suitable sizes, and enjoy!
So. what is Yokan and Mizu Yokan? Yokan is made of just a few simple ingredients; azuki red bean paste, sugar, and kanten (or agar agar - If you never heard of this ingredient, visit this page ). Stir into remaining syrup, then strain through a fine sieve over sweet potato and stir until smooth. If there are lumps, push mixture through a fine sieve. When I made coarsely mashed sweet bean paste at home, I decided to use it up by making it into Japanese sweets.
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