Nerikiri Wagashi: "紫陽花  Ajisai (Hydrangea)"
Nerikiri Wagashi: "紫陽花  Ajisai (Hydrangea)"

Hey everyone, it is Drew, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, nerikiri wagashi: "紫陽花  ajisai (hydrangea)". It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

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To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have nerikiri wagashi: "紫陽花  ajisai (hydrangea)" using 7 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Nerikiri Wagashi: "紫陽花  Ajisai (Hydrangea)":
  1. Get 20 g Shiro-an (White Kidney bean paste with sugar)
  2. Get 40 g Nerikiri-dough
  3. Make ready Please refer to "Example: how to make a Dough for Nerikiri-Wagashi (with wheat flour)" or "Nerikiri-dough (with rice flour)"
  4. Take 0.5 gAgare-powder
  5. Prepare 30 gGranulated sugar
  6. Prepare 50 mlWater
  7. Take + Food colorings
Instructions to make Nerikiri Wagashi: "紫陽花  Ajisai (Hydrangea)":
  1. Ingredients for 2
  2. Utenciles for making the shape
  3. [Make colored Kanten (agar) for petals] ①Put the water into a pan. ②Add the agar. ③Mix them well. ④Heat it up on a medium flame to boiling.  ⑤Turn down the flame. Simmer it for 2min.
  4. Add the Granulated sugar. Mix them on medium flame. Turn off the flame when the sugar melt completely.
  5. ①Lay a sheet of plastic wrap on a flat place. ②Put the purple food coloring into a table spoon. ③Dissolve it with a little hot water. ④Mix them well.
  6. ①Add 1Tbsp of Kanten (agar) liquid which you made No4. ②Mix them well. ③Put the colored liquid on the sheet of plastic wrap. ④Do the same thing with the blue color. Leave it several minutes. *Kanten (agar) liquid becomes hard at room temperature, so please do No.5 & No.6 quickly!
  7. ①Leave it several minutes then it gets hard. ②③Cut it into around 5㎜ square pieces. ④Separate them by color and keep them.
  8. [Colorize the Nerikiri dough for leaves] ①Knead the dough. ②Add a little water into a green coloring. ③Dissolve it in the water. ④Put it on the Nerikiri dough. ⑤Knead and mix them.
  9. [Make a Ajisai (Hydrangea) flower] Make the green dough round. Make 3 ditches form the bottom to the top. (Put 2 ditches with the opposite angle and divide one half into 2.) Pinch each leaf to make pointed ends of 3 leaves.
  10. Press & stretch each leaf to periphery side. Make a round dent in the center.
  11. Make 1 line on the center of the each leaf. Put several short lines on sides of them
  12. Put the "shiro-an" in the center dent. Cover it with colored Kanten(agar) pieces.

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