Chestnut Yokan

Overview

How to cook Chestnut Yokan at home

Tags

• snacks
• home cooking
• common dishes
• vegetarian
• old man
• afternoon tea
• autumn recipes
• agar
• chestnut
• red bean
• white sugar
• water

Ingredients

Steps

1. 1 Take an appropriate amount of agar powder and put it into a bowl, add water and soak it for 3 hours. I used 5 grams. The soaking time depends on the type of agar you buy.

   

2. 2 Wash the red adzuki beans and soak them in water for one hour.

   

3. 3 Then put it in an electric pressure cooker to make bean paste.

   

4. 4 Strain out the bean paste water. I like to eat granular bean paste, which has a coarser texture, so I didn’t sieve it. Those who like a delicate taste can sift it again.

   

5. 5 Peel the chestnuts, steam them, and chop them into small cubes.

   

6. 6 Pour the soaked agar liquid into a small pot and heat.

   

7. 7 Pour in bean paste and chestnuts.

   

8. 8 Add an appropriate amount of sugar according to personal taste, but it must not be less. Yokan that is not sweet will not taste good at all.

   

9. 9 Add an appropriate amount of sugar according to personal taste, but it must not be less. Yokan that is not sweet will not taste good at all.

   

10. 10 Pour the yokan solution into a crisper, cool it and put it in the refrigerator. Refrigerate it until it becomes firm. Take it out and cut it into pieces before eating.