Hello everybody, it is Jim, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, sweet potato yokan (imo-yokan). One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Sweet Potato Yokan (Imo-yokan) is one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions every day. Sweet Potato Yokan (Imo-yokan) is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They are fine and they look fantastic.
Imo yokan is a Japanese gelatin made with Japanese sweet potato called satsuma-imo. It is a perfect snack to enjoy with a cup of green tea. Satsuma-imo sweet potato (may substitute with American sweet potato) Place sweet potato in a pan of cold water and bring to the boil. Drain, return to the pan and mash until smooth.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have sweet potato yokan (imo-yokan) using 3 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Sweet Potato Yokan (Imo-yokan):
- Get 300 g sweet potatoes (unpeeled)
- Get 2 g agar powder
- Take 80 ml water
It's one of those things I found on the Web, and the description interested me enough to make me search around for a recipe I could manage. As I don't have a postal scale in my kitchen and thus could not measure out grams, I had to guesstimate some of the amounts. Imo Yokan is a Japanese sweet mainly made of sweet potatoes (I guess it uses mushed sweet potatoes). I was ready to eat it plainly, but the box said baking was also nice.
Steps to make Sweet Potato Yokan (Imo-yokan):
- Peel the sweet potatoes, cut in pieces and boil until soft.
- Mush or push through a tamis (recommended) while the potatoes are hot.
- Melt the agar powder in the water. Boil for about 2 minutes (stir time to time).
- Mix the agar water and the potato paste together.
- Put the dough in a mold (rectangle or square) and smooth the surface. Leave until it gets firm. You can also put it in a fridge but not obligatory.
Imo Yokan is a Japanese sweet mainly made of sweet potatoes (I guess it uses mushed sweet potatoes). I was ready to eat it plainly, but the box said baking was also nice. Alongside kabocha, mushrooms and persimmons, sweet potatoes are one of the key flavours that the Japanese look forward to eating during shokuyoku no aki or 'the increased appetite of autumn' and one of most popular ways to enjoy them is as a smooth, firm bar of imo yōkan. Japanese purple sweet potatoes are also popular for Imo Yokan, a Japanese jelly cake made with sweet potato, agar, and sugar. Japanese purple sweet potatoes are commonly dried and turned into powder for use as a natural food coloring.
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