Recipe: Delicious Standard Sweet Potato Yokan

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Recipe: Delicious Standard Sweet Potato Yokan
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Recipe: Delicious Standard Sweet Potato Yokan Delicious, fresh and tasty.

Standard Sweet Potato Yokan. A traditional Japanese sweet potato dessert recipe, made with sweet potatoes, agar, and sugar. The perfect accompaniment to a cup of green tea. Taste the flavours of Autumn with this sweet potato yokan dessert recipe.

Yokan is a Japanese sweet treat that has a form of a firm jelly.

It is made with red bean paste, sugar, and agar-agar.

Even though red bean paste is the most common yokan flavor, chestnuts, sweet potatoes, or kidney bean paste infused with green tea are also commonly used as.

You can have Standard Sweet Potato Yokan using 4 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Standard Sweet Potato Yokan

  1. You need 1 of net 300 grams Japanese sweet potato.

  2. Prepare 1 1/2 grams of Powdered kanten.

  3. Prepare 180 ml of Water.

  4. You need 50 grams of Sugar.

Yōkan (羊羹) is a thick, jellied Japanese dessert made of red bean paste, agar, and sugar.

It is usually sold in a block form, and eaten in slices.

There are two main types: neri yōkan and mizu yōkan. "Mizu" means "water", and indicates that it is made with more water than usual.

This is sugarless recipe but you can add some if you like.

Standard Sweet Potato Yokan step by step

  1. Cut the sweet potatoes into 2 cm thick slices. Peel rather thickly and soak in water to get rid of the bitterness..

  2. Put Step 1 in a bowl and add enough water to cover. Boil until softened. You can also cook in a microwave..

  3. Once boiled, drain the moisture and mash while still hot..

  4. Put the powdered kanten, water, and sugar in a pot and bring to a boil. Add Step 3 and mix well. Knead over low heat for 2 minutes..

  5. Pour into a moistened container. Once cooled, put into the refrigerator to chill..

  6. When removing from the container, warm the container in a bit of lukewarm water to warm..

  7. Cut into your desired size and enjoy..

In my opinion, sweet potatoes are sweet enough!

Peel the sweet potatoes, cut in pieces and boil until soft.

Mush or push through a tamis (recommended) while the potatoes are hot.

Place sweet potato in a pan of cold water and bring to the boil.

Drain, return to the pan and mash until smooth.