Good morning 🎍🐇✨
New Year vibes still continuing – in Japan we celebrate until January 3rd(work starts on 4-5th)✨✨
Two more to go – documentation on Osechi (Japanese new year bento) item🍱
Each item has wishes & meanings, I try to cook to have those points stand out✨
Today introducing “Imo-kinton” (sweet potatoes)✨
It’s originally done with candied chesnut.
Quick recipe & story of Imo-kinton (arranged to be easier) & Stories🪷
Very sweet and tasty one, I love this since I was a child.
This dish symbolizes wealth and economic luck💰✨Imo/芋 “potato” Kinton/金団（golden cushion/blanket).
Yellow (gold) is believed to be a lucky colour for wealth – We use dried gardenia fruit to dye the potatoes into stronger yellow colour.
Original ones looks a bit different, with yellow glazed candied chesnut sitting on more sticky, charamel-like paste texture (more sugar & syrup).
- Skin sweet yams. Put in water, change water several times (get lye out) – and boil until soft. The lye of potatoes are strong- my knife rusts so quickly😂
- Change water, boil again – add crushed gardenia fruit and let the color in. After a while, add dried apricots. And add sugar/syrup to match your taste (you don’t have to, if you like less sweetness).
- Mash! When cooler, shape in wraps. Yum!!
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かなりの手抜きで恐縮ですが、とーーってもお気に入りの、芋きんとんです🍠
良いお芋であれば、干し杏子とだけでお砂糖もいらず、素朴な甘さが味わいをお楽しみいただけます。
成形もサランラップなのですが、毎年大満足です🥰❣️
こちらのお芋はアクがとても強いようで、気付いたらものすごい錆び具合で、びっくりを通り越して笑ってしまいました(サビトール様様です。。)😂
