I just realised that how I didn't eat much and know about Wasashi 和菓子 , the traditional Japanese sweets, when I lived in Japan.
Actually I didn't like those, especially Anko, sweet azuki bean paste. Because they were too sweet to me. I prefer more salty stuff.
However, after I started making Wagashi sweets by myself, I rearised that they are sooooo delirious. I think that those commercial sweets in the shop use too much chemical to keep them a long life and enhancing the strong taste and colour.
The real hand-made sweets are really naturally gentle and deeply nice original taste of the ingredients.
They go so well with the green tea. But you can have them with any drink.
Ama-natto ライ豆の甘納豆
Butter beans coated with sugar.
I made some Ama-natto with chick peas and red kidney beans the other day.
So literally, you can make the Ama-natto with any peas and beans, even some nuts hard vegetables.
インゲン豆とひよこ豆の甘納豆
They are amazingly taste good.
When you buy a pack of Ama-natto in the Japanese or oriental shop, it might be too sweet for you.
Easy making of Ama-natto, even from the tin beans/peas.
Just boil the beans/peas with the same quantity sugar. Add or reduce the sugar as you like.
Leave them with sugared water until cool or over night, if you had a time.
The dry the beans/peas for one day or two and coating with 1 table spoon of sugar. The caster sugar will make them good looking.
Or you can eat Ama-natto without drying and no sugar. Do as you wish!!!
Actually I didn't like those, especially Anko, sweet azuki bean paste. Because they were too sweet to me. I prefer more salty stuff.
However, after I started making Wagashi sweets by myself, I rearised that they are sooooo delirious. I think that those commercial sweets in the shop use too much chemical to keep them a long life and enhancing the strong taste and colour.
The real hand-made sweets are really naturally gentle and deeply nice original taste of the ingredients.
They go so well with the green tea. But you can have them with any drink.
Ama-natto ライ豆の甘納豆
Butter beans coated with sugar.
So literally, you can make the Ama-natto with any peas and beans, even some nuts hard vegetables.
インゲン豆とひよこ豆の甘納豆
They are amazingly taste good.
When you buy a pack of Ama-natto in the Japanese or oriental shop, it might be too sweet for you.
Just boil the beans/peas with the same quantity sugar. Add or reduce the sugar as you like.
Leave them with sugared water until cool or over night, if you had a time.
The dry the beans/peas for one day or two and coating with 1 table spoon of sugar. The caster sugar will make them good looking.
Or you can eat Ama-natto without drying and no sugar. Do as you wish!!!
