Steamed Bread with Cherry Blossom
- 50 grams Cake flour
- 1/2 tsp Baking powder
- 20 grams Sugar
- 1 tbsp Vegetable oil
- 50 ml Milk
- 1 dash Natural food dyes (red food colouring)
- 3 tsp Smooth sweet white bean paste (shiro-an)
- 6 Salted cherry blossoms
- Mix sugar, vegetable oil and milk.
- Sift in flour and baking powder at once, and mix.
- Dissolve natural food dyes (red food coloring) with 1/2 teaspoon of water.
- Add to the mixture you made at Step 1.
- Soak the salted cherry blossoms in water for a while to desalt.
- Chop three and mix in the smooth sweet white bean paste.
- Put cupcake liners (about 7 cm in diameter) in ramekins and pour small amount of the mixture.
- Put the white bean paste on top.
- Cover with the remaining mixture.
- Top with the desalted blossoms.
- Steam for 10 minutes over high heat.
- I created a variation of this recipe.
- "Steamed Bread with Cherry Blossom and Green Tea".
- It would be great to pack the bread in a bamboo lunchbox like this and bring it to cherry-blossom-viewing.
flour, baking powder, sugar, vegetable oil, milk, cherry blossoms
Taken from cookpad.com/us/recipes/154148-steamed-bread-with-cherry-blossom (may not work)