Daigaku-Imo Style Sweet Potato Kinpira
Daigaku-Imo Style Sweet Potato Kinpira

Hey everyone, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, daigaku-imo style sweet potato kinpira. One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Daigaku-Imo Style Sweet Potato Kinpira is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Daigaku-Imo Style Sweet Potato Kinpira is something that I’ve loved my entire life.

Put in a bowl of water to soak for a while. What is Daigaku Imo (University Potato)? These candied sweet potatoes are called Daigaku Imo in Japanese, and they are a sweet snack made of You can get these Japanese sweet potatoes at Japanese grocery stores, Asian grocery stores (especially Chinese and Korean), your local farmers.

To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have daigaku-imo style sweet potato kinpira using 8 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Daigaku-Imo Style Sweet Potato Kinpira:
  1. Take 1 Japanese sweet potato
  2. Take Note: The ratio is Sake 3: soy sauce 2: sugar 1
  3. Get 30 ml A. Sake
  4. Make ready 20 ml A. Soy sauce
  5. Take 1 tsp A. Sugar
  6. Prepare 1 tbsp Sesame oil
  7. Prepare 1 dash Honey
  8. Make ready 1 Black sesame seeds

I like the colour contrast between the skin. Daigaku Imo, which means University Potato, are candies sweet potatoes, a sweet and slightly savory snack that is often served at university Daigaku imo is simple to make, yet a bit tricky. You ideally want to coat the sweet potato slices completely with a hard caramel sugar coating, but too. Made with freshly harvested fall sweet potatoes, Daigaku Imo (大学芋), or "university potatoes", takes on a crunchy outer shell, which harbors a pillowy If you're wondering what sweet potatoes have to do with higher-learning institutions, these were a popular snack in universities during the earlier part of. "Daigaku Imo" translates literally to "University Sweet Potato".

Steps to make Daigaku-Imo Style Sweet Potato Kinpira:
  1. Slice the sweet potato about 1 mm thick. Put in a bowl of water to soak for a while. Make the other things to put in a bento box (or for dinner) in the meantime.
  2. Drain the sweet potatoes and pat dry. Heat some sesame oil in a frying pan and stir fry the potato slices.
  3. Add the combined "A" ingredients and continue stir-frying.
  4. When there's no moisture left in the pan, mix in the honey and sesame seeds to finish. Just add a little bit of honey. If you don't have any honey you can add mizu-ame (sweet starch syrup), or nothing at all.
  5. Floury, dense and delcious!
  6. Great in bentos. You can make this in advance, so reserve some you make for dinner for bentos the next day.

Daigaku Imo is usually deep-fried and coated in a mixture of sugar and water to create a crystallized outer coating. However, since I have quit sugar and want to keep this snack healthy, I have substituted the sugar for rice malt syrup and I. This is sweet potato at its very sweetest! Deep-fried sweet potato is tossed in a sticky, sweetened soy glaze and sprinkled with black sesame seeds. DAIGAKU IMO (College Sweet Potatoes) are available in any Japanese deli.

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