Posted in Japanese Recipes, tagged candy, chocolate, ginger, sweets on July 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Try these easy to make, not-so-bad for you little chocolate bites. Each has only 62kcal!
Ingredients (makes 12 using 3cm-deep moulds):
75g milk chocolate
25g sweet chocolate
40g cream, around 45%
12g starch syrup
10g ginger
1. Chop the chocolate into small pieces. Put into a bowl, immerse it into hot water (40C is perfect) and melt the chocolate.
2. Grate the [...]
Posted in Japanese Recipes, tagged bread, carrot, diet, food, Green Tea, health, healthy, jam, Japan, Japanese food, scone, snacks, yoghurt on May 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
OK, here’s a recipe for Green Tea scones with Carrot Jam. It’s on the healthier side, and each scone has around 200kcal. Think of all the antioxidant qualities of the green tea :)
Ingredients for 12 scones:
For the scones:
5g green tea
200g flour
25g sugar
7g baking powder
1 large egg (60g)
75g milk
50g butter
salt to taste
For the carrot jam:
100g carrots
150ml [...]
Posted in Japanese Recipes, tagged candy, chocolate, food, Green Tea, green tea chocolate, Japan, japan food, Japanese Recipes, Japanese sweets, macha, matcha, recipes, sweets, truffles, white chocolate on May 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »
As you might already know, Green Tea chocolate is usually just a mix of white chocolate and matcha powder. Here’s how to make a kind of green tea truffles:
Ingredients: (for a 12cm mold)
100g white chocolate
10g butter
60ml cream
1/2 teaspoon rhum
Macha powder
Chop the butter into small pieces and keep at room temperature. Chop the white chocolate into [...]
Posted in Japanese Recipes, tagged asian, daigaku imo, Japanese food, potatoes, sweet potatoe on May 23, 2008 | 2 Comments »
大学芋 is made by coating deep-fried sweet potatoes with caramelised syrup. 大学(daigaku) is the Japanese for “university”, and 芋(imo) means sweet potato. The name 大学芋 derives from the fact that it was popular in college towns during the Taisho (1912-1926) and Showa (1926-1989) period.
Ingredients:
300g sweet potato (10.5 oz)
Oil for deep-frying
1/2 cup sugar (60g OR 2 oz)
1.5 [...]
Posted in Japanese Recipes, tagged Green Tea, green tea cake, japanese cake, Japanese food, Japanese sweets, macha, matcha, okashi, sponge cake on May 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Ingredients:
90g white chocolate
80g butter
3 egg yolks
3 egg whites
40g x 2 sugar
40g flour
20g corn starch
7g green tea powder (macha)
Preheat the oven to 150C (300F).
1. Chop the white chocolate and butter to small pieces, put in a bowl and immerse into hot water to melt.
2. Mix together the 40g flour, 20g corn starch [...]
