Japanese Home cooking recipe. “Taiyaki & Tubuann”

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Nowadays It's said that Japanese food is healthy, fresh and looks like beautiful.
The reason why japanese food has become popular over the years. You might find out Japanese restaurants everywhere around your city. And most of ingredients for Japanese home cooking would be sold at supermarket. Japanese food isn’t only Sushi and Ramen.
Today let me share “Taiyaki & Tubuann” recipe.

These recipe and photos were produced by Hiroko Liston.com

‘Taiyaki’ is Fish-shaped pancake with yummy filling inside. The most common filling is ‘Tsubu-an’, the sweet red bean paste. Other recommended fillings are custard, chocolate, fruit jam, or Nutella. Savoury filling would be nice as well. Be creative and enjoy making your own ‘Taiyaki’. Taiyaki pans are available from many online retailers.

Pancake Ingredients
Self-Raising Flour 1 1/2 cups
Sugar 2 tablespoons
Egg 1
Milk 1 1/2 cups
Your Favourite Fillings (eg. Tsubu-an, Custard, Fruit Jam, Chocolate, Cheese, etc.)
Oil

*you can choose your favorite seasonings and ingredients above.

Method
1. Whisk all ingredients in a mixing bowl until well combined. If you have a pancake batter dispenser, it would be very handy. I use a plastic jag. Pouring the pancake batter using a ladle would be tricky.
2. Warm the ‘Teriyaki’ pan and oil the fish-shaped moulds.
3. Pour the pancake batter into the moulds slightly less then full amount, place the filling, pour the pancake batter over the filling, then close the moulds.
4. Cooked on both sides until golden brown.

■‘Tsubu-an’, the sweet red bean paste



■Custard



In the past article, we got the messages how to make the Tsubu-an’.
So we share the recipe the Tsubu-an today.



Makes
About 700g

Ingredients
Azuki Beans 350g
Sugar 1 Cup
A pinch of Salt

Method
1. Place Azuki beans in a large saucepan or a pot and cover them with a plenty of water, and cook until the beans are swollen and plump. Darin the water.
*Saoking the beans in water overnight saves cooking time.
2. Place the beans back into the saucepan and cover them with plenty of water again and cook until the beans are very tender. Drain the water.
3. Place the beans back into the saucepan, add sugar and pinch of salt, and cook and mash until it gets the texture.

The most popular ‘An’ and it is easy to make. However, ready-made Tsubu-an is available from Japanese or Asian grocery stores.

So some Japanese might buy “an” because there are a lot of products of “an” in Japanese supermarkets as well.
I’m glad to find out any hints that you arrange your home cooking!