Recipe: Delicious Easter Rabbits and Eggs- Jouyo Manju (Wagashi)

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Easter Rabbits and Eggs- Jouyo Manju (Wagashi). This is a traditional Japanese sweet which is a bean paste ball rapped with dough of grated Yamaimo & rice flour. I made Easter Rabbits & Eggs with this. I made brown rabbits with these ingredients!

This is a traditional Japanese sweet which is a bean paste ball rapped with dough of grated Yamaimo & rice flour.

I made Easter Rabbits & Eggs with this ingredients.

Since then, Manju has been a popular sweet for generations after generations.

You can have Easter Rabbits and Eggs- Jouyo Manju (Wagashi) using 5 ingredients and 15 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Easter Rabbits and Eggs- Jouyo Manju (Wagashi)

1. Prepare 40 g of Grated Yamaimo （Yam).

2. Prepare 80 g of Sugar.

3. You need 50-55 of gJouyo-ko (fine rice flour).

4. You need 100 g of Koshi-aｎ (Red beam jam).

5. Prepare of ＋Food colorings.

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Easter Rabbits and Eggs- Jouyo Manju (Wagashi) step by step

1. Ingredients for 10 pieces. *Grated Yam 40g = 10g Yam powder + 30ml Water.

2. Utensils.

3. Make dough. Add the sugar into the grated Yamaimo. Mix them. Put the Yamaimo mixture into the jouyo-ko(rice flower)..

4. Put the jouyo-ko(rice flower) onto the yamaimo mixture and fold it. Mix them until the dough becomes like "squeezing an earlobe". Divide the dough into 10..

5. Wrap a beam jam ball with the dough..

6. Make it oval. Do same things to make 10 oval buns..

7. Make Rabbits. Make a head with chopsticks..

8. Make ears..

9. Make ears.　Do the same thing (No.7-No.9) and make 6 Rabbits. Leave 4 for eggs..

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11. Dissolve the blue food coloring with in a little water. Paint a rabbits nose. Dissolve the blue food coloring, the purple food coloring and a little Jouyo-ko (rice flour) in a little water. Put rabbit's eyes..

12. Decorate the 4 oval buns like Easter eggs..

13. Put them in a steamer and spray water over them..

14. Steam them for 8minuites..

15. Then cool them down (with a cotton clothes cover not to get dry)..

I first show you the instruction video and you will try making traditional Japanese sweet; "Jouyo Manju - a bun with a bean jam filling".

Wagashi are traditional Japanese sweets that are usually made from natural, plant-based ingredients such as grains and azuki beans.

Most of the basic forms of wagashi seen today are derived from that era.

The introduction of sugar helped in further development of wagashi, and during the early Edo. "Wagashi" is the term for these traditional Japanese confections, and its many different types are suitable for different seasons and occasions.

Tokyo - Let's make Japanese sweets; Jouyo Manju in my kitchen.