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Hanabiramochi is a Japanese sweet usually eaten at the beginning of the year. Kuzumochi are mochi cakes made of kuzuko . Manjū is a popular traditional Japanese confection; most have an outside made from flour , rice powder and buckwheat and a filling of red bean paste, made from boiled azuki beans and sugar.
Botamochi: a sweet rice ball wrapped with anko (or an, thick azuki bean paste) Daifuku: general term for mochi (pounded sweet rice) stuffed with anko; Dango: a small, sticky, sweet Japanese dumpling, commonly skewered on a stick; Domyoji: wagashi made with anko (red beans) wrapped in sticky rice
Chichi dango is a slightly sweet, light treat usually eaten as a dessert. Denpun dango (でんぷん団子) from Hokkaido is made from potato flour and baked with sweet boiled beans. Kuri dango (栗だんご) is coated in chestnut paste. Niku dango is a type of Japanese meatball. [4] Chicken niku dango is called tsukune, served on a skewer.
Daifukumochi (大福餅), or daifuku (大福) (literally "great luck"), is a wagashi, a type of Japanese confection, consisting of a small round mochi stuffed with a sweet filling, most commonly anko, a sweetened red bean paste made from azuki beans. Daifuku is often served with green tea. Daifuku (plain type) Daifuku comes in many varieties.
Suama (寿甘), a combination of the kanji for celebration "su" and sweet "ama" , is a Japanese sweet made of [1] non-glutinous rice flour, hot water, and sugar characterized by its red food dye. It is dyed red, because red and white symbolize celebration in Japanese tradition.
The word konpeitō comes from the Portuguese word confeito ("comfit"), which is a type of sugar candy, and also an umbrella term for sweets in general. [3]The characters 金平糖 (lit. "golden flat sugar") are ateji selected mostly for their phonetic value and can also be written 金米糖 or 金餅糖.
Several types of amazake from a supermarket. Amazake (甘酒, ) is a traditional sweet, low-alcohol or non-alcoholic Japanese drink made from fermented rice. [1] Amazake dates from the Kofun period, and it is mentioned in the Nihon Shoki. [2]
Yōkan may also contain chopped chestnuts, [2] persimmons, whole sweetened azuki beans, figs, and sweet potato (imo yōkan), among other additions. Sugar can also be replaced with honey, dark brown sugar, or molasses to alter the taste of the yōkan produced. There is also shio yōkan, which uses small amounts of salt.