Easiest Way to Cook Delicious Glossy 'Kurikinton' Chestnut Paste for the New Year's Feast

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Easiest Way to Cook Delicious Glossy 'Kurikinton' Chestnut Paste for the New Year's Feast Delicious, fresh and tasty.

Glossy 'Kurikinton' Chestnut Paste for the New Year's Feast. Kurikinton (栗金団) literary means "chestnut gold mash", which symbolizes economic fortune and wealth and it's an important part of the New Year meal to bring good luck and prosperity for the new year. If you make this dish, please use Japanese Sweet Potatoes called Satsumaimo (さつまいも). I made Japanese Traditional Sweets Wagashi,this time,i made Wagashi of Sweet Chestnut called Kurikinton or Kurithakin in Japanese;) this recipe is simple.

Refer to the video for tips!

If possible, please strain the mixture twice.

For the coming Year of the Dog, I'd like to share three sample menus and a detailed workflow for one of them.

You can have Glossy 'Kurikinton' Chestnut Paste for the New Year's Feast using 6 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Glossy 'Kurikinton' Chestnut Paste for the New Year's Feast

  1. You need 16 of Sweet chestnuts in syrup.

  2. You need 500 grams of Sweet potato.

  3. It’s 1 of Gardenia flower.

  4. Prepare 80 ml of Candied chestnut syrup.

  5. Prepare 2 tbsp of Mirin.

  6. Prepare 100 grams of Sugar (castor sugar).

I hope this will inspire you and help you to deliver a wonderful Chinese New Year Feast for your loved ones on this very special occasion.

After all, Chinese New Year Feast is all about sharing.

Because Chinese New Year always falls at the tail end of winter, the fruits available tend to be It's a feast for the eyes, studded with fruits and nuts and drenched in a glistening sugar syrup.

A circle of sweet red bean paste follows, smaller than the bowl's diameter, and is topped with a final covering of.

Glossy 'Kurikinton' Chestnut Paste for the New Year's Feast step by step

  1. Remove about 1 cm of the sweet potato skin, slice into rounds, then rinse in water. This might seem slightly wasteful, but this is important..

  2. Add the water and cracked gardenia seeds (it is good to put them into an empty tea bag for easy removal later), along with the sweet potatoes and boil over medium heat until softened..

  3. Set aside the broth from Step 2. Take it out of the pot, and use a hand mixer or a tea strainer to make it smooth. You can also use a masher..

  4. Return it to the pot, add in the syrup and sugar (use the leftover broth and/or syrup to alter the consistency if necessary), and boil down until it thickens and turns amber..

  5. Remove it from the heat, gently stir so as not to crack the candied chestnuts, and it is done. In my family, we sometimes loosen the paste with boiling water..

  6. Place into your favorite bowl and enjoy..

  7. Please refer to my New Years feast from 2013…

  8. For a two-toned purple potato and sweet potato kinton,..

More Good Luck for the New Year.

Every Chinese family has their own traditions to celebrate New Year but there are some dishes which are simply must-haves.

Many of these can be easily adapted to be vegetarian.

This year, we combined the Reunion or New Year's Eve dinner and New Year's Day vegetarian breakfast into a big feast on Saturday, the third Absence has certainly made my heart grow fonder for it and last year I decided to prepare it myself.

We had two gatherings and I made this salad for the.