Kuri Kinton (Chestnut and Sweet Potato Kinton)
Kuri Kinton (Chestnut and Sweet Potato Kinton)

Hello everybody, it’s me again, Dan, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, kuri kinton (chestnut and sweet potato kinton). It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

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Kuri Kinton or Candied Chestnuts and Sweet Potatoes are a special Japanese New Year dish, which symbolizes economic fortune and wealth. Let's make this gold color food for a prosperous year ahead! Course: Appetizer, Side Dish Kuri Kinton is a Japanese dish comprised of mashed sweet potato with sweet chestnuts (kuri). It's my favorite part of the Japanese New Year food lineup.

To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have kuri kinton (chestnut and sweet potato kinton) using 3 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Kuri Kinton (Chestnut and Sweet Potato Kinton):
  1. Get 1 middle sized sweet potato (about 250g without skin)
  2. Take 1 pack candied chestnuts (kuri no kanro-ni, mine was 160g)
  3. Take 1-1.5 Tbsp syrup of the candied chestnuts

While the sweet potato is still soft, strain it through a sifter to make it into a puree. Mix the sugar, syrup and mirin in a saucepan and cook over low heat until it starts to simmer. Turn the heat off, add pureed sweet potato and mix them well together. Kuri Kinton is sweet chestnuts mixed in mashed sweet potatoes.

Steps to make Kuri Kinton (Chestnut and Sweet Potato Kinton):
  1. Boil the washed and sliced sweet potato in a pot until it gets soft (as a skewer or fork goes smoothly into the potato) . You can peel before boiling (though, I didn't this time).
  2. Mash the potato.
  3. Cut the chestnuts if you like.
  4. Mix the chestnuts with the potato. Add the syrup and mix well.
  5. Enjoy!

Turn the heat off, add pureed sweet potato and mix them well together. Kuri Kinton is sweet chestnuts mixed in mashed sweet potatoes. It is a part of Osechi Ryori, the traditional Japanese new year feast. There are a lot of kinds of dishes for Osechi Ryori, and Kuri Kinton is one of the most popular dishes for kids as it is sweet like a dessert. Kuri Kinton 栗金飩 is one of the items of osechi-ryōri, traditional Japanese New Year/ oshougatsu foods.

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