How to Prepare Award-winning ‘Kintsuba’ Azuki Cakes

Hello everybody, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, ‘kintsuba’ azuki cakes. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

‘Kintsuba’ Azuki Cakes is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals in the world. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions daily. They’re fine and they look wonderful. ‘Kintsuba’ Azuki Cakes is something which I have loved my whole life.

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To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook ‘kintsuba’ azuki cakes using 7 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make ‘Kintsuba’ Azuki Cakes:

1. Get 1 cup ‘Tsubu-an’ Sweet Azuki (Red Bean) Paste *about 250 to 300 g
2. Prepare 1 sachet (4 g) Kanten (Agar) Powder
3. Make ready 1/2 cup Water
4. Get 1/4 cup Plain Flour *OR Plain Flour 3 tablespoons & Glutenous Rice Flour 1 tablespoon
5. Take 1-2 tablespoons Sugar
6. Make ready 1/4 cup Water
7. Make ready Oil

It's easy enough to bother making them and I enjoy these cakes with a nice cup of green tea. This unusual Japanese dessert is a little like the distant Eastern relative of fried ice cream. Based on a block of fruity yōkan gelatin, it has a thin, soft coating of lightly sweet batter added to make a visually interesting, entirely Japanese dessert. The Japanese traditional confectionery, wagashi, is very delicately shaped and flavored with natural ingredients such as agar, strained azuki beans, and yomogi (mugwort) leaf.

Instructions to make ‘Kintsuba’ Azuki Cakes:

1. Place Water and Kanten (Ager) Powder in a saucepan and bring it to the boil. Keep boiling for 2 minutes occasionally stirring. *Kanten is different from gelatine. It needs to be boiled in the water to dissolve.
2. Add Sugar and ‘Tsubu-an’ Sweet Azuki (Red Bean) Paste and mix well.
3. Line a square 20cm cake tin or a container with plastic food wrap, pour the mixture and smooth the surface. Let it set in the refrigerator.
4. When the mixture is firmly set, cut into smaller squares.
5. Mix Plain Flour (OR Plain Flour & Glutenous Rice Flour) and Water in a bowl to make the batter.
6. Heat a frying pan over a low heat and Oil very lightly. Dip one of the surfaces of a block of firmly set mixture in the batter, cook the surface. Repeat for all six sides of the block. Re-apply Oil to the pan as necessary. Once you know how, you can cook several blocks at same time.
7. If the excess batter flanges along the edges, you may wish to trim them with kitchen scissors or a knife. Serve at room temperature or cold with nice green tea.

Based on a block of fruity yōkan gelatin, it has a thin, soft coating of lightly sweet batter added to make a visually interesting, entirely Japanese dessert. The Japanese traditional confectionery, wagashi, is very delicately shaped and flavored with natural ingredients such as agar, strained azuki beans, and yomogi (mugwort) leaf. In Japan, seasonality plays an important part of their food culture, especially in regards to the ingredients, theme, color, and presentation. Transfer the cake to the cake board, adhering with Royal Icing. With the Dresden tool, exaggerate the cracks in the Icing made by the tin foil.

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