Sunday, October 11, 2009

...make your own japanese dessert day

i'm not sure how i got watching a better half of an hour these "cookingwithdog" Youtube videos about japanese cooking.... a trip to Daiso later, we got all the ingredients we needed to make Tofu Dango aka Japanese-dumplings-we-order-extra-at MOF (ministry of food) at-3 dollars-for-3-measly-pieces!.

it was pretty easy to do, and the end result was as satisfying as the ones they sell at the Jap restaurants here.


our daiso loot:
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redbean paste, soybean powder, glutinous flour

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mix equal parts of silken tofu and glutinous flour until you can make small balls out of them, then dunk them in boiling water

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once they float, strain and put in ice cold water

AND THAT'S IT! you just add whatever flavors you want.. in our case, we made 3 different types:
mirin, sugar, soy sauce
heat equal parts of mirin, soy sauce and sugar. actually, pangs added a little bit more of sugar to the mixture. then just spread it on the dango balls.

soybean powder
dango with mirin mixture(top), 2 tbsp soybean paste + 1 tbsp sugar mixture for the dango on the bottom

red bean paste
with red bean paste! they have these in daiso as well.. so cool!! every item there sells for 2 dollars.



line of the day: "tofu pala yung lasa na yun!"


the Youtube video:

1 comment:

janeius said...

nice! =D sayang malayo na ko ngayon sa japanese supermarket dito.. =(