Sweet Potato Yokan (Imo-yokan)
Sweet Potato Yokan (Imo-yokan)

Hello everybody, it’s Jim, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, sweet potato yokan (imo-yokan). One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Sweet Potato Yokan (Imo-yokan) is one of the most popular of recent trending meals in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Sweet Potato Yokan (Imo-yokan) is something that I’ve loved my whole life.

Imo yokan is a Japanese gelatin made with Japanese sweet potato called satsuma-imo. It is a perfect snack to enjoy with a cup of green tea. Drain, return to the pan and mash until smooth. Imo yokan is a popular Japanese dessert that is made with sweet potato and sugar.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook sweet potato yokan (imo-yokan) using 3 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Sweet Potato Yokan (Imo-yokan):
  1. Make ready 300 g sweet potatoes (unpeeled)
  2. Prepare 2 g agar powder
  3. Prepare 80 ml water

The sweet is usually served in rectangular bite-size slices. If you are determined to buy imo yokan in Tokyo, there is no other place to go but Funawa Café in Asakusa. Imo-yokan is jellied sweet potato cake. It's one of those things I found on the Web, and the description interested me enough to make me search around for a recipe I could manage.

Instructions to make Sweet Potato Yokan (Imo-yokan):
  1. Peel the sweet potatoes, cut in pieces and boil until soft.
  2. Mush or push through a tamis (recommended) while the potatoes are hot.
  3. Melt the agar powder in the water. Boil for about 2 minutes (stir time to time).
  4. Mix the agar water and the potato paste together.
  5. Put the dough in a mold (rectangle or square) and smooth the surface. Leave until it gets firm. You can also put it in a fridge but not obligatory.

Imo-yokan is jellied sweet potato cake. It's one of those things I found on the Web, and the description interested me enough to make me search around for a recipe I could manage. As I don't have a postal scale in my kitchen and thus could not measure out grams, I had to guesstimate some of the amounts. Alongside kabocha, mushrooms and persimmons, sweet potatoes are one of the key flavours that the Japanese look forward to eating during shokuyoku no aki or 'the increased appetite of autumn' and one of most popular ways to enjoy them is as a smooth, firm bar of imo yōkan. Japanese purple sweet potatoes are also popular for Imo Yokan, a Japanese jelly cake made with sweet potato, agar, and sugar.

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