Hello everybody, it is me, Dave, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, salt-cured cherry blossoms. One of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Be the first to review this recipe. A specialty of Kyoto Japan and used in many Japanese cooking. The result is beautiful and the flavor exquisite.
Salt-Cured Cherry Blossoms is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. Salt-Cured Cherry Blossoms is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They are nice and they look fantastic.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have salt-cured cherry blossoms using 1 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Salt-Cured Cherry Blossoms:
- Take 1 Salt-cured cherry blossoms
Sweetened cherry blossom paste is also made from salt-cured blossoms, pureed and sweetened, making it suitable to mix into mousse, ice cream, and whipped cream. Cherry leaf powder, meanwhile, is salted cherry leaves that have been dried and ground to powder. It makes a nice contrast to pink hues of blossoms, and totally has its own thing going. Pickled cherry blossoms are part of our product line up.
Steps to make Salt-Cured Cherry Blossoms:
- Fill a bowl with water, and soak the salt-cured cherry blossoms to de-salt them, for 20 to 30 minutes. It's best to soak them for a rather long time. (See Hints.)
1. Very gently pat them dry with paper towels. Line them up on a heatproof dish so that they don't overlap. (See Hints.)
1. Microwave for 1 minute. Take them out, and poke apart the flower petals very gently so that they will open up easier. - Microwave at 500w for 90 seconds to 2 minutes. Turn the flowers over and microwave for another minute to 90 seconds. Evaporate all the moisture.
1. The flowers are done. - I put them on Ne-ne's delicious roll cake. - - https://cookpad.com/us/recipes/142723-sakura-roll-cake-with-the-fragrance-of-spring
- Here's a closeup. I dusted the flowers with powdered sugar. They have such a nice cherry blossom fragrance.
- I used one as a topping on Ne-ne's Sakura Latte. This is so good too.. - - https://cookpad.com/us/recipes/142719-spring-coloured-sakura-matcha-latte
- On Takuchi's Sakura Milk. The crushed kanten jelly is so good!
- I put them in jelly. They bloomed nicely.
But, it is not just cherry blossoms that can be preserved in this way. So many flowers can be salt-cured that it seems almost ridiculous to list them. Both are common, but leaves are what gives sakura-sweets the distinctive flavor that many people associate with cherry blossoms; as the most traditional Japanese sakura sweets, sakura-mochi takes its flavor from the salt-cured cherry leaf that wraps around the mochi, and the pink mochi is usually colored with a (natural) food coloring. Salt-Cured Cherry Blossoms I thought that if the salt-cured cherry blossoms used as decoration were fluffier, that they'd look cuter, especially on western styles sweets. This recipe came to me when I was making cherry blossom salt, cherry blossom sugar and cherry blossom powder.
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