How to Prepare Award-winning Mitarashi Dango

Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, mitarashi dango. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Mitarashi Dango is one of the most favored of recent trending foods on earth. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Mitarashi Dango is something which I have loved my whole life.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook mitarashi dango using 10 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Mitarashi Dango:

1. Get 6 tbsp glutinous rice flour
2. Prepare 2 tbsp rice flour
3. Take 100 ml water
4. Take Food coloring of your choice
5. Take Water for boiling
6. Prepare For sauce:
7. Take 3 tbsp sugar
8. Prepare 1 tbsp shoyu
9. Take 100 ml water
10. Make ready 1 tbsp katakuriko dissolved in 1-2 tbsp of water

Steps to make Mitarashi Dango:

1. Combine all flour and 100 ml of water. Knead well. If it is too sticky, add more flour. If it is too solid, add more water.
2. I divided the dough and colored one part red.
3. Here's the fun part! Boil the water (about 1-1.5 liters) while shaping the dough into whatever form you fancy. The traditional shape is round, but I like to play around. Once you finish shaping the dough, plunge it into the boiling water.
4. Wait about a minute after the pieces float. Scoop them. You can either skewer them or leave them as they are.
5. How to make the sauce: combine sugar, shoyu, and water until the sugar is dissolved. Add katakuriko slurry bit by bit so it won't clump. When the mixture is boiling, reduce the heat and continue stirring for about three minutes until the mixture thickens.
6. Pour over the dango, and serve!

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