Hey everyone, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, dumplings with shiratama glutinous rice flour & tofu for the moon gazing festival. It is one of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Dumplings with Shiratama Glutinous Rice Flour & Tofu for the Moon Gazing Festival is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions every day. Dumplings with Shiratama Glutinous Rice Flour & Tofu for the Moon Gazing Festival is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They are nice and they look fantastic.
To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have dumplings with shiratama glutinous rice flour & tofu for the moon gazing festival using 5 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Dumplings with Shiratama Glutinous Rice Flour & Tofu for the Moon Gazing Festival:
- Prepare 100 grams Shiratamako
- Make ready 100 grams Silken tofu
- Make ready *Top with kinako and kuromitsu as desired
- Get 2 tbsp Kinako
- Make ready 1 tbsp Kuromitsu
Instructions to make Dumplings with Shiratama Glutinous Rice Flour & Tofu for the Moon Gazing Festival:
- Crumble the tofu and mix with the shiratamako. *Don't add the tofu all at once. Add it gradually to the shiratamako, checking the texture. The dough should be about as soft as your earlobes.
- Divide into 25 portions and roll into balls. Cook in boiling water.
- When they float to the surface, cook for another 5 minutes. Drain and transfer to a bowl of cold water.
- Pat dry with paper towels, stack as shown in the profile photo and they are ready!
- Combine the roasted soy flour and kuromitsu black sugar syrup to make the sauce. Pour over the dango to serve.
- 2010: I made the dango with my 1-year-old son. It was the first time for him to make dango. The top one is a pumpkin dango.
- 2012: I made them again this year. A typhoon was approaching Japan, so we couldn't have the real moon gazing festival, but we enjoyed the dango to celebrate anyway.
- We had a beautiful full moon in 2013! My 4-year-old son is getting better and better at making these.
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