Flower Viewing Mochi Dumplings

• 100 grams Shiratamako
• 120 grams Silken tofu
• 20 grams Shiro-an (sweet white bean paste)
• 5 Pickled cherry blossom
• 20 grams Koshi-an (strained bean paste)
• 1 half a teaspoon Matcha
• 1 Natural food coloring

1. Put the shiratamako and tofu in a bowl and knead together.
2. Half the dough from Step 1 into two portions.
3. Dissolve the matcha in half a teaspoon of water and add to one half, then add food coloring in the other for pink and green dough.
4. Roll each half of the batter into 7 dango.
5. Wash the pickled cherry blossom to get rid of excess salt.
6. Finely chop up the cherry blossom and add to the shiro-an.
7. Wrap the shiro-an mix in the pink colored dough.
8. Wrap the koshi-an in the matcha dough.
9. Boil the dango.
10. Leave the dango boiling for another 2 minutes once they float to the top.
11. Once they're done cooking, cool in ice water and then drain.
12. Skew in toothpics or a skewer.
13. You can also coat in kinako if you like.
14. I've also posted another great recipe for the cherry blossom viewing season "Super fluffy steamed bread Cherry blossom and matcha version".

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Taken from cookpad.com/us/recipes/148616-flower-viewing-mochi-dumplings (may not work)