How to Make Tasty Yokan - Japanese Red Bean Jelly

Yokan - Japanese Red Bean Jelly.

You can have Yokan - Japanese Red Bean Jelly using 6 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Yokan - Japanese Red Bean Jelly

1. Prepare 8 g of agar powder.
2. It's 600 gr of red bean paste.
3. You need 200 ml of water.
4. It's 1 of little honey, if you like sweet. Usually red bean paste is already sweet, so we can skip honey.
5. You need of Ginger if you like to add ginger.
6. Prepare 1 of rectangular mould or flower mould up to you.

Yokan - Japanese Red Bean Jelly step by step

1. Red bean paste and agar can be bought at 100 yen shop in Japan. If the shop is not available in your country, you can also make from raw red beans. We save time by using ready-made paste..
2. Mix 200ml water with 8g agar powder. Cook with medium heat, until it boils a little..
3. Add red bean paste..
4. Mix slowly till the paste is dissolved..
5. Genichi-sensei and I like to add ginger, so we use grater to get ginger juice..
6. You can add honey if you like sweet..
7. Cover the bottom of the mould with plastic wrap. If you have silicon mould, you can skip this..
8. Pour red bean paste into the mould..
9. Wrap all moulds and put in the fridge for 6 hours. We make it in the evening and have yokan by lunch the next day..
10. The rich taste of red bean, the spice of ginger and light sweet of honey. That is Japanese yokan!.