Yokan - Japanese Red Bean Jelly
Yokan - Japanese Red Bean Jelly

Hey everyone, it’s Louise, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, yokan - japanese red bean jelly. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Yokan - Japanese Red Bean Jelly is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions daily. Yokan - Japanese Red Bean Jelly is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.

Mizu Yokan is a traditional Japanese dessert, or wagashi, as it is known in Japanese cuisine. Yokan is a general term which refers to this jelly dessert made In other variations of yokan, the red beans are substituted with a white kidney bean paste which is known as shiro-an. Have you tried or seen a Japanese red bean jelly called Yokan (羊羹, ようかん)?

To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook yokan - japanese red bean jelly using 6 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Yokan - Japanese Red Bean Jelly:
  1. Prepare 8 g agar powder
  2. Get 600 gr red bean paste
  3. Get 200 ml water
  4. Get 1 little honey, if you like sweet. Usually red bean paste is already sweet, so we can skip honey
  5. Make ready Ginger if you like to add ginger
  6. Make ready 1 rectangular mould or flower mould up to you

This jelly is rather popular as Japanese treat nowadays, but its origin is Chinese: it is again the Buddhist monks who introduced it. 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.

Steps to make Yokan - Japanese Red Bean Jelly:
  1. Red bean paste and agar can be bought at 100 yen shop in Japan. If the shop is not available in your country, you can also make from raw red beans. We save time by using ready-made paste.
  2. Mix 200ml water with 8g agar powder. Cook with medium heat, until it boils a little.
  3. Add red bean paste.
  4. Mix slowly till the paste is dissolved.
  5. Genichi-sensei and I like to add ginger, so we use grater to get ginger juice.
  6. You can add honey if you like sweet.
  7. Cover the bottom of the mould with plastic wrap. If you have silicon mould, you can skip this.
  8. Pour red bean paste into the mould.
  9. Wrap all moulds and put in the fridge for 6 hours. We make it in the evening and have yokan by lunch the next day.
  10. The rich taste of red bean, the spice of ginger and light sweet of honey. That is Japanese yokan!

As you may already know, Yokan is a Japanese sweet bean jelly confection which is made by jellying a mixture of sweetened Azuki red bean paste As you can easily guess from the above, Yokan is a simple confection that is easy to make, and the traditional Japanese dessert can basically be made. One of Japanese traditional sweets, YOKAN, is sweet bean past jelly bar. The material of this sweets is very simple and it is basically made of red bean paste, agar, and sugar. It never uses coloring, flavoring or any other additives so it is good sweets for maybe health conscious people. Mizu Yokan 水ようかん • Just One Cookbook.

So that is going to wrap this up with this special food yokan - japanese red bean jelly recipe. Thank you very much for your time. I am confident that you can make this at home. There is gonna be more interesting food at home recipes coming up. Don’t forget to bookmark this page on your browser, and share it to your loved ones, colleague and friends. Thanks again for reading. Go on get cooking!