Hey everyone, it’s Jim, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, basic nerikiri (bean paste and rice dough). One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Great recipe for Basic Nerikiri (Bean Paste and Rice Dough). I wanted to record a video on how to make and color a basic nerikiri. Authentic nerikiri has to be cooked and burns easily, and is a bother to make, so I thought up an easy method. The shiro-an is made with "Po"'s recipe with less water, that I always have stocked in the freezer.

Basic Nerikiri (Bean Paste and Rice Dough) is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. They are fine and they look fantastic. Basic Nerikiri (Bean Paste and Rice Dough) is something which I’ve loved my whole life.

To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have basic nerikiri (bean paste and rice dough) using 3 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Basic Nerikiri (Bean Paste and Rice Dough):

1. Prepare 100 grams Shiro-an
2. Take 10 grams Gyuuhi
3. Get 1 dash Food coloring

This wagashi is traditionally made with sweetened white bean paste and glutinous rice flour. Here is how you cook that. Ingredients of Nerikiri Wagashi: Party cake. It's of Nerikiri-dough or Konashi dough (made from white bean jam).

Steps to make Basic Nerikiri (Bean Paste and Rice Dough):

1. Microwave the shiro-an for 1 minute at the highest setting. Tear the gyuuhi into small pieces and knead into the shiro-an with a spoon while mashing the pieces.
2. Microwave for another 30 seconds. When the mixture is smooth, cool it down completely.
3. The basic nerikiri is done when it doesn't stick to your fingers when you pinch it. If it's too soft and sticky, repeat Step 2.
4. You can color the nerikiri by adding drops of food coloring and kneading it in until the dough is evenly colored.
5. I divided the dough into 3 portions, and colored one pink and another one green.
6. To make a nerikiri plum flower: Divide the light red (pink) and white balls of dough in half. Wrap the pink dough around the white dough, using more pink dough than white as shown here.
7. When the pink dough is wrapped around the white dough, roll the ball in your hands until the seam disappears. It's OK if the white dough shows through a bit.
8. Mark the top and sides of the dough with a spoon. If you can get the white dough to show through a bit, it will have a gradated effect and will be very pretty.
9. This is user "Risunoshippo"'s creation, hedgehogs. She colored the nerikiri with cocoa powder and cinnamon powder, and made the needles with scissors! So cute.

Ingredients of Nerikiri Wagashi: Party cake. It's of Nerikiri-dough or Konashi dough (made from white bean jam). A sweet white bean paste called "shiro-an" is required to make jonama-gashi. Shiro-an is made up of boiled and crushed navy beans mixed with sugar. This is then mixed with flour or mochi flour, heated, and kneaded with sugar to create a dough called "konashi" or "nerikiri" that can be used in a similar way to marzipan in the West.

So that is going to wrap it up with this special food basic nerikiri (bean paste and rice dough) recipe. Thank you very much for reading. I am confident you can make this at home. There’s gonna be more interesting food in home recipes coming up. Don’t forget to save this page in your browser, and share it to your family, friends and colleague. Thanks again for reading. Go on get cooking!