RE: FN-FORUM OT: Japanese recipe

date posted 10th September 2002 15:40

Ah.... Japanese food

usually just serve fresh fruit salad (optional sugar & water syrup poured
over the top) or, less frequently, plain ice cream... but always green tea.

there are desserts based on sweet red bean (azuki beans) paste (get it from
your specialist supermarket) the simplest way is to just serve it inside a
small sweet pancake (standard egg and flour batter with a little sugar
syrup)

You can also mix sweet azuki bean paste with sugar and agar-agar (Japanese
call it kanten) and set it in the fridge - easy to remember proportions on
this one which is why it's the only recipe I can remember off the top of my
head:

5g dried agar-agar
50g sugar
500g red bean paste
500ml of hot water (in a pan on medium heat)

soak the agar agar until soft, squeeze it out and dissolve it in the hot
water (don't let it boil and don't stir!) strain out the lumps, add the
sugar to the liquid (now stir!) dissolve add the paste and bring to boil for
a couple of minutes (stir lots now!) then stick the pan in a large bowl of
cold water, stir until thick, pour into mould, let it set (preferably
overnight but not essential) slice into oblong fingers...

hmmmn reads complicated but it's much harder to write it down than to cook
it. have fun.

cheers
neil.



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Can anyone recommend (from personal experience please; googlers need not
apply) a good recipe for a Japanese desert for us to try out on friends?
Our cook book has loads of first and second courses, but no puds! Ta.

David Nye
http://dnye.co.uk
Business Systems, Database & Internet Applications Design & Development.
Microsoft SQL Server, Access, ASP & VB Programming.

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