The cube of soya - odango

Classic dumplings    -     Odango


Japan is one of the regions that have soya bean food culture, as it is showed well with tofu, miso, shoyu(soy sauce) and natto(fermented soya beans) etc.. 

This simple and old fashioned (gluten-free, dairy-free) sweet dumpling is called o-dango.  Mix shiratamako(sweet rice flour) with silken-tofu(soyabean curd) to make soft and sticky texture balls, and boil them, served with sweet shoyu(soy sauce) flavoured sauce & kinako(roasted soyabean flour)

It is the cube of soya!


shiratamako(sweet rice flour) 150ml
silken-tofu 100gs

topping 
●  soysauce   1 table spoon
  raw sugar   30gs 
  cold water   50ml
  kuzu (or any) starch   1 tea spoon 
●  kinako(roasted soy bean flour)   some 

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