Hey everyone, it’s me, Dave, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, monaka-style adzuki bean cracker sandwiches with the aroma of pickled plums and shiso leaves. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
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This recipe is from the Cookpad.com. If you go to their website, you can try even another option - these cracker sandwiches with the Aroma of Pickled Plums and Shiso Leaves. Monaka is a type of wagashi (traditional Japanese sweets) consisting of an azuki bean jam filling that is sandwiched between two thin mochi wafers.
To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook monaka-style adzuki bean cracker sandwiches with the aroma of pickled plums and shiso leaves using 8 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Monaka-style Adzuki Bean Cracker Sandwiches With the Aroma of Pickled Plums and Shiso Leaves:
- Take 12 Crackers (I used Ritz crackers)
- Prepare 1 small can Canned boiled adzuki beans
- Make ready 1 large Umeboshi (I recommend honey umeboshi)
- Prepare 3 to 4 Shiso leaves
- Take 1 tbsp A: Sugar
- Prepare 1 grams Powdered kanten
- Make ready 1 Butter (optional)
- Prepare 1 Cheese (optional)
Red shiso leaves traditionally used to dye pickled ume (Japanese apricots or plums). Rub shiso leaves well so that dark purple liquid is extracted. Wash plums gently, remove hulls with a bamboo stick, and dry well with paper towels one by one. Please make sure the plums are dried well otherwise the moisture of plums will cause growing mold in the jar.
Steps to make Monaka-style Adzuki Bean Cracker Sandwiches With the Aroma of Pickled Plums and Shiso Leaves:
- Take the pit out of the umeboshi and mince the flesh. Finely chop the shiso leaves.
- Put the boiled adzuki beans, umeboshi and A ingredients (sugar, powdered kanten) in a saucepan and mix together. Cook over low heat, stirring constantly.
- It will become thick after 3-5 minutes. Remove from heat before it becomes too thick and stir in the finely chopped shiso leaves.
- Let cool, and the "Plum Shiso Bean Paste" is done. Put in as many shiso leaves as you like.
- Sandwich the filling between crackers and that's it Garnish with more shiso leaves…
- Variation 1: Spread with butter for an anko butter sandwich.
- Variation 2: Spread with cream cheese for an anko cheese sandwich.
- These are the crackers I used this time.
Adzuki beans originate from China whereas kidney beans are native to Central America and Mexico. For this anko recipe, I'm using the tsubushian technique of boiling the beans and mashing them with the skin on. The texture isn't as smooth as mashing them through a sieve but it's just as. Bean skins are still left in the paste and the beans are not fully "mashed" although some of them are crushed or mashed during cooking. You may need to add water to help sift the beans through with the back of a wooden spoon.
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