How to Make Black Sesame Paste

How to Make Black Sesame Paste

Thursday, 7 May 2015 / No Comments

Hello everyone. Like what I told before, in this post I will share about how to make black sesame paste. Black sesame paste is usually used in many kind of Asians foods. Just like mocha, tang yuan, bread, and many more. You will easily find them at the groceries store, but if you are the fans of Asians food, I think you need to know how to make the authentic one by yourself.

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It’s so simple to make black sesame paste, let’s check the recipe below.

Ingredients:

• 1 part of roasted black sesame seeds (1 Tbsp.)
• 1 part of honey (1 Tbsp.)

Instructions:

1. Grind the black sesame seeds by mortar and pestle or in food processor. It takes some time for sesame seeds to secrete oil, but be patient.

2. When the sesame seeds are finely ground and become moist from natural sesame oil, add honey and mix all together. If you want to use black sesame paste for savory dishes, you can add a little bit of sesame oil instead of honey.

That’s how to make black sesame paste. If you can make the good filling for your dessert I’m sure the dessert will be so much special. See you next time… have a good day…

How To Make Dango (Japanese Sweet Dumplings)

How To Make Dango (Japanese Sweet Dumplings)

Friday, 1 May 2015 / No Comments

Well good day everybody. I hope you have a great weekend. The weekend is such a good time to enjoy your time with your  family. Its will be perfect if you can combine family time with delicious snack. Make a chewy and bouncy Dango maybe can be an option to serve to  your family, specialy for the childern.

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Dango or usually we call as Mochi  is a sweet dumplings from Japan that made from glutinous rice flour. In Japan this snack is usually serve with green tea in a lot of occation. Dango has a lot of different varieties in traditionally eaten in given seasons. This snack is so popular because it’s so simple to make it by your own. Let’s see how to make it.

Ingredients:

1.   ⅓ cup (55 g, 80 ml) glutinous rice flour

2.  2½ Tbsp. Water

3.  ½ tsp. Sugar

For Sauce:

1. 1 cup water

2.  ½ cup sugar

3. 2 Tbsp. soy sauce

4. 1½ Tbsp. potato starch or 1½ tablespoons cornstarch

5. 1½ Tbsp. Water

Steps:

    1.Combine glutinous rice flour, sugar and 2 Tbsp. water in a bowl. Mix it untill well combined.

    2.Using your hand to make it a dough. Slowly add the rest of ½ Tbsp. water. Try to make a ball, if       you still can’t make it become a ball and there are more crumbs left, isntead of pouring more water     you just need to wet your hand and try again to form into a ball.

    3. Then roll into a nice smooth balls.

    4. Cook the balls in a boiling water, about 2 minutes.

    5. When the balls start to float you should pick them up and put them in ice water to let them cool.

    6.Skewer them in bamboo sticks (3-4 dumplings each stick).

    7.To make the sauce you need to mix the water, sugar and soysauce in a pan and put it on medium      heat.

    8.In the other set aside you need to mix the water and the potatostarch.

    9. When the sauce boils, mixture the sauce with the starch quickly.

    10. Finally, pour the sauce over the dango balls and they are ready to serve.

Well that’s all the steps to make silmple Dango. I hope you can try it by your own and sweet your day with sweet Dango. Have a nice day, see you next time…