Hello everybody, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, kuri kinton (chestnut and sweet potato kinton). It is one of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Kuri Kinton is a Japanese dish comprised of mashed sweet potato with sweet chestnuts (kuri). Let's make this gold color food for a prosperous year ahead! For the final post on the Osechi Ryori (Japanese New Year Meal) series, I am sharing another popular dish called Kuri Kinton (Candied Chestnuts.
Kuri Kinton (Chestnut and Sweet Potato Kinton) is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions every day. Kuri Kinton (Chestnut and Sweet Potato Kinton) is something that I have loved my whole life. They are fine and they look wonderful.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook kuri kinton (chestnut and sweet potato kinton) using 3 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Kuri Kinton (Chestnut and Sweet Potato Kinton):
- Take 1 middle sized sweet potato (about 250g without skin)
- Take 1 pack candied chestnuts (kuri no kanro-ni, mine was 160g)
- Make ready 1-1.5 Tbsp syrup of the candied chestnuts
Kuri kinton is a beautiful golden color, the symbol of wealth. Kuri Kinton is made from sweetened chestnuts and pureed Japanese sweet potato so it's basically a combination of two of my favourite foods ever! It's sweet and amazing and I could eat it forever. It's part of the Japanese New Year's lunch/dinner feast (Osech Ryori) so it's basically like eating dessert in a main meal…it's awesome.
Instructions to make Kuri Kinton (Chestnut and Sweet Potato Kinton):
- 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).
- Mash the potato.
- Cut the chestnuts if you like.
- Mix the chestnuts with the potato. Add the syrup and mix well.
- Enjoy!
Turn the heat off, add pureed sweet potato and mix them well together. Keep stirring to avoid mixture from sticking to the bottom. Turn off the heat, add the chestnuts and cover them with the pureed sweet potato mixture. Kuri means chestnut, while kinton is mashed sweet potatoes (though regular sweet potatoes are called satsumaimo, サツマイモ). But 'kin' can also be written as gold (金), referring to the vibrant yellow color of this dish.
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