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Kuri Kinton or Candied Chestnuts and Sweet Potatoes are a special Japanese New Year dish, which symbolizes economic fortune and wealth. 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. Check out kuri kinton — mashed sweet potatoes with candied chestnuts.
To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook kuri kinton (chestnut paste) - chakin-shibori using 3 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Kuri Kinton (Chestnut Paste) - Chakin-Shibori:
- Get 500 grams Raw chestnuts
- Make ready 80 grams Wasanbon-to sugar (fine refined Japanese sugar used for confectionery)
- Get 1 pinch Salt
Kuri (chestnuts) used in the dish are called Kanroni, and they are cooked and macerated in heavy syrup. Have you ever heard Kuri Kinton? We usually eat it on New Year's Day- If you know something sweet potato paste in Osechi, that is! You can eat it as it is, or use it for the filling in the sweet bread or even cakes I sometimes make sponge cake with Kuri Kinton and whipped cream for dessert if I have. kuri kinton.
Steps to make Kuri Kinton (Chestnut Paste) - Chakin-Shibori:
- Wash the chestnuts to remove dirt. Simmer over medium heat for 30-40 minutes.
- Cut the chestnuts in half with a knife. Scoop out the insides with a spoon, and mash. You can pass the chestnuts through a sieve, but I think it's a waste to lose the bits of chestnut that get stuck.
- Put the mashed chestnuts in a pan over very low heat, and add the salt and the sugar little by little while stirring constantly to evaporate excess moisture and to mix in the sugar. Please taste it and adjust the amount of sugar.
- Let it cool down. Divide the mixture into chestnut-sized portions, and wrap each portion in a tightly wrung kitchen towel or plastic wrap.
- Unwrap the morsels slowly, and they're done.
- I used this wasanbon-to sugar. As little as 50 grams in this recipe makes it delicious. When you taste the chestnut paste, the key is to make it bit on the sweet side.
- To give as gifts, wrap each portion in parchment paper. This makes keeps them from falling apart easily and you can eat them on the opened paper.
Kuri shibori, made from fresh chesnuts. I`m a "wagashi maker" from Germany. Kuri Kinton is a traditional Japanese New Year's food (osechi) made from sweet potato and chestnuts. Each osechi dish has a symbolic meaning, and Japanese often return to their hometowns and gather to have osechi on New Year's Day. Kuri Kinton is a well known Japanese dish comprised of mashed sweet potato with sweet chestnuts.
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