Easiest Way to Prepare Cherry Blossom Sweet Bean Paste in 21 Minutes for Family

Hey everyone, it’s Jim, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, cherry blossom sweet bean paste. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

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Cherry Blossom Sweet Bean Paste is one of the most well liked of current trending meals on earth. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. They are nice and they look fantastic. Cherry Blossom Sweet Bean Paste is something which I’ve loved my whole life.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook cherry blossom sweet bean paste using 7 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Cherry Blossom Sweet Bean Paste:

1. Make ready 25 grams 〇 Dried white sweet bean paste
2. Prepare 40 grams 〇 Sugar
3. Take 100 ml 〇 Water
4. Prepare 1 to obtain your desired color Red food coloring or red yeast rice powder
5. Take 3 leaves Cherry blossom leaves preserved in salt
6. Make ready 5 Cherry blossoms preserved in salt (optional)
7. Make ready 1/4 tsp Cherry blossom liqueur (optional)

FACTS ABOUT OUR GUM PASTE FLOWERS: Gum paste flowers are more durable than regular frosting flowers and fresh flowers. Cherry blossom season is a really big ordeal in Japan since the full beautiful blossom of cherry flowers only lasts about a week each year. Chewy mochi with sweet red bean paste (Anko) filling is simply delectable! The aroma of cherry blossom leaves adds to the next level of full spring experience!

Instructions to make Cherry Blossom Sweet Bean Paste:

1. Rinse the cherry blossoms and leaves, then soak in clean water for 1-2 hours. Dry thoroughly and mince.
2. Add ingredients marked with a 〇 to a small saucepan (preferably Teflon) and let stand for about 20 minutes. Mix in a small amount of food coloring until you've reached the desired color, then warm over low heat.
3. Stir the mixture constantly until you achieve the desired consistency. Take the mixture off the heat and mix in the cherry blossoms and leaves that you prepared in Step 1 and/or the liqueur. Now it's done.
4. For this batch, I used red yeast rice powder (nature's own food coloring). It transforms into a different color…
5. I bough the dried white sweet bean paste at Tomizawa shop. It's sooooo convenient.
6. "Wataboushi" (the headdress worn by the bride in a traditional Japanese wedding).
7. Cherry Blossom Bean Paste Rolls
8. Cherry Blossom Dorayaki
9. For this, I just minced a cherry leaf and added it to a chunky red sweet bean paste. It takes about one leaf for every 50 g of bean paste.
10. I tried making this with twice the amount of cherry blossoms and no food coloring, and this is the color it came out as.
11. Cherry blossom cookies.
12. I used this to make my favorite sakura-mochi (cherry blossom rice cakes).
13. This spring, I made anko-dama (bean paste balls).

Sakura mochi is a Japanese dessert that is pink, just like the sakura (cherry blossom flowers) and is made of sweet glutinous rice and filled with a sweet red bean paste. It is wrapped in a pickled sakura leaf which is edible. Traditionally, this dessert is enjoyed during Hinamatsuri (Japanese Girls' Day). Spring in Japan means sakura (cherry blossom) season! It's one of the most anticipated seasons of the year, with sakura viewing parties and decorations gracing many establishments throughout the country.

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