Hanami Dango
Hanami Dango

Hello everybody, it’s Drew, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, hanami dango. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Hanami Dango is one of the most favored of recent trending meals in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Hanami Dango is something which I’ve loved my entire life.

It is the iconic pink, white and green dango on a stick, there is even an emoji for it on iPhones! This special tri-coloured dango is sold year around, but is especially popular during the spring during the cherry blossom viewing. In Japan, the end of March to April is the time of viewing and appreciating cherry blossoms ("hanami").

To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have hanami dango using 4 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Hanami Dango:
  1. Get 80 grams glutinous rice flour
  2. Prepare 80 grams Japanese tofu
  3. Take 40 gram sugar
  4. Get Food colourings in green and pink

Hanami dango is a traditional Japanese dessert (a.k.a. wagashi) that is eaten during cherry blossom viewing. It is shockingly easy, requiring only four basic ingredients. Dango is a type of sweet that is essentially like balls of rice on a skewer, very similar to mochi. Hanami dango is also gluten free and vegan!

Instructions to make Hanami Dango:
  1. Mix together the tofu, sugar and glutinous rice flour until it forms a dough and no longer sticky.
  2. Divide the dough into three parts. Leave one in white, give one part of the dough some pink food coulouring and the other with green.
  3. Divide each dough into four then make them into balls.
  4. Boil some water. When the water is boiling put the dough balls into the water then wait for them until they float into the surface.
  5. Rinse the balls and put them into some water with ice cubes to prevent them from cooking more.
  6. Then take your skewers, stick the balls into the skewers. First the the green one and then the white, last is the pink one.
  7. Enjoy.

Hanami dango are sweet mochi rice dumplings on a skewer, and each of them has a different color - pink is used to symbolize cherry blossoms, white represents the remaining snow of the past winter, and green is used as a herald of spring, representing the color of young grass. The dessert is named after a popular Japanese tradition of hanami, meaning flower viewing Kuri dango is coated in chestnut paste. Chichi dango is a slightly sweet, light treat usually eaten as a dessert. Hanami dango also has three colors, and is traditionally made during Sakura-viewing season, hence the name (Hanami means "flower viewing"; hana meaning "flower", and mi meaning "to see"). In Japan, the end of March to April is the time of viewing and appreciating cherry blossoms ( hanami ).

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