Recipe: Perfect Nerikiri Wagashi: "Kiku" (Chrysanthemum)

Recipe: Perfect Nerikiri Wagashi: "Kiku" (Chrysanthemum) Delicious, fresh and tasty.

Nerikiri Wagashi: "Kiku" (Chrysanthemum). Ingredients are red bean paste, Nerikiri-dough and food colorings. It's Wagashi (Japanese sweet) made of dough from bean paste. How to make a Kiku (chrysanthemum) flower with only a round chopstick.

Name: kiku (菊) Chrysanthemum Seasonal Association: Autumn When To Wear It: All Year Auspicious: Yes History: Kiku was introduced from China during the Nara period.

They typically bloom in late summer and will last until the first snowfall.

Because of their hardiness and medicinal properties.

You can have Nerikiri Wagashi: "Kiku" (Chrysanthemum) using 4 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Nerikiri Wagashi: "Kiku" (Chrysanthemum)

1. Prepare of Red bean paste (bean jam).

2. Prepare of Nerikiri-dough.

3. It’s of Please refer to "Example: how to make a Dough for Nerikiri-Wagashi (with wheat flour)".

4. Prepare of ＋ Food coloring (Red).

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Nerikiri Wagashi: "Kiku" (Chrysanthemum) instructions

1. Ingredients are red bean paste, Nerikiri-dough and food colorings. *Please refer to "Example: how to make a Dough for Nerikiri-Wagashi (with wheat flour)".

2. Utensils..

3. Knead the Nerikiri-dough to make it smooth..

4. Divide the dough into each part..

5. Colorize the each parts with food colorings. I use power food colorings dissolved in water. Liquid type is more convenient!.

6. Knead the dough to make it smooth and its color uniform..

7. .

8. Make the body part circle shape and put the center part..

9. Wrap the red bean paste with the dough. And make it round..

10. Draw draft 12 lines on the side to make 12 petals..

11. Make 12 ditches along the draft lines..

12. Make 12 petals on the top..

13. Make a round dent in the center..

14. Make the center part round and put it on the dent. Then its completed!.

The Kiku Matsuri, held each November at Tokyo's Yushima Tenmangū shrine, is a gorgeous festival of chrysanthemum blossoms.

Prizes are awarded at the Kiku Matsuri.

We asked Sugiyama what the criteria are for selecting the best from such an array of splendid specimens.

Over the centuries kiku became popular garden plants and their status grew, to the point that the kiku flower even became the crest of the Japanese royal family by the Kamakura Period.

Through the intervening centuries this plant has been cultivated across the world with whole societies devoted to.