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Check out kuri kinton — mashed sweet potatoes with candied chestnuts. It has a sweet rich flavor and a nice golden color that symbolizes wealth and good fortune. A very popular osechi ryori (New Year's dish) in Japan, this sweet but healthy plate will have your guests impressed and asking for seconds.
To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook homemade! osechi kuri-kinton using 8 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Homemade! Osechi Kuri-Kinton:
- Take 15 chestnuts Candied Japanese chestnuts
- Take 350 grams peeled Sweet potato
- Make ready 2 Dried gardenia fruit
- Get 1 Sugar (if necessary)
- Take 80 ml ＊Mirin
- Get 100 ml ＊Syrup of the candied Japanese chestnuts
- Take 1 tablespoon+ Sweet potato cooking water
- Take 1 pinch Salt
It is a part of Osechi Ryori, the traditional Japanese new year feast. There are a lot of kinds of dishes for Osechi Ryori, and Kuri Kinton is one of the most popular dishes for kids as it is sweet like a dessert. 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.
Instructions to make Homemade! Osechi Kuri-Kinton:
- Thickly peel sweet potatoes and cut them in half lengthwise. Cut into 1 cm thick slices and soak them in water.
- Drain the sweet potatoes. Wrap the gardenia in gauze and crush. Add both to a pot with ample water and boil over medium heat until tender.
- Reserve part of (about 100 ml) the cooking water, to use later for adjusting the consistency.
- Drain the potatoes in a colander and blend in a food processor with mirin, candied chestnuts syrup, and 1 tablespoon cooking water.
- Taste, add sugar as needed, and blend (I have never added sugar).
- Put the mixture back into the pot over low heat and stir with a wooden spatula until it thickens a bit.
- Add the chestnuts and salt, stir it a bit more and it's ready. It hardens when it cools, so turn off the heat when it still seems a bit loose.
- If it gets stiff while stirring, add some of the cooking water to adjust.
Kuri Kinton is a well known Japanese dish comprised of mashed sweet potato with sweet chestnuts. It's a delicious meal for all. Kuri kinton is a sweeter osechi ryori dish, made by combining mashed satsuma imo (Japanese sweet potatoes) with candied chestnuts. Once made, the dish has a distinct golden yellow colour, which symbolises wealth, prosperity, and good luck. This makes kuri kinton a particularly important New.
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