New Year Japanese Sweet Chestnuts

A lovely melt in the mouth traditional Japanese sweet for New Year. But I've had so many friends ask me to make this throughout the year.

Recipe By: himawari (https://cookbuzz.com/kitchen/366)
Serves 4 Cook: 40 min

Ingredients

Sweet potato 1 (400g)
Sweet chestnut syrup (kanro-ni) 180g

Method

1
Here are the ingredients.
2
Wash and thickly peel the sweet potatoes and cut to 1cm slices. Put in a pan, add water to cover and cook on medium heat until softened.
3
Mash to a smooth puree.
4
Use a spatula to get it really smooth.
5
Sieve while hot to make it silky.
6
Add the sweet chestnut syrup and mix well.

Tips & Note

Once the sweet potato is peeled, it goes down to 300g. Once sieved and mixed with the syrup, it becomes really smooth and silky.

New Year Japanese Sweet Chestnuts

A lovely melt in the mouth traditional Japanese sweet for New Year. But I've had so many friends ask me to make this throughout the year.

Recipe By: himawari (https://cookbuzz.com/kitchen/366)

Serves 4

Cook: 40 min

Ingredients

Sweet potato 1 (400g)
Sweet chestnut syrup (kanro-ni) 180g

New Year Japanese Sweet Chestnuts

Recipe ID :2312 Posted on 18 JAN 2017

Serves 4

Cook 40min
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A lovely melt in the mouth traditional Japanese sweet for New Year. But I've had so many friends ask me to make this throughout the year.

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Ingredients

Method

Cook
40min
1
Here are the ingredients.
2
Wash and thickly peel the sweet potatoes and cut to 1cm slices. Put in a pan, add water to cover and cook on medium heat until softened.
3
Mash to a smooth puree.
4
Use a spatula to get it really smooth.
5
Sieve while hot to make it silky.
6
Add the sweet chestnut syrup and mix well.

Tips & Note

Once the sweet potato is peeled, it goes down to 300g. Once sieved and mixed with the syrup, it becomes really smooth and silky.

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