Tukimi Dango (Moon Viewing Dumpling)
Tukimi Dango (Moon Viewing Dumpling)

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This is a traditional mochi dumplings that are eaten during the Moon Viewing Festival. They are piled in a pyramid shape rather than the usual skewered style. Knead the rice flour while adding warm. The more you knead the dough, the chewier the dango will turn out to be.

To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have tukimi dango (moon viewing dumpling) using 4 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Tukimi Dango (Moon Viewing Dumpling):
  1. Make ready 60 g Joshinko (Rice Powder)
  2. Take 60 g Shitamako (Glutinous Rice Powder)
  3. Take 20 g Sugar
  4. Prepare 80 ml hot (but not boiling) water

For this day, the food that must be eaten is TSUKIMI DANGO (Japanese dumplings made of rice flour for moon viewing). We made some dangos in advance! To represent the full moon, I make yellow dango to put on top of the pyramid. The yellow color comes from kabocha squash, which is in season between the late summer to fall.

Steps to make Tukimi Dango (Moon Viewing Dumpling):
  1. Mix the dry ingredients in a bowl and pour in the water little by little while mixing with chopsticks or a fork. Do not pour in all at once as you may need to make sure of the consistency.
  2. Once the water is mixed in, knead with your hands to get a "earlobe softness"
  3. Roll into a rope one inch in width.
  4. Divide the rope into 16
  5. Roll each portion into a ball
  6. Boil a pot of water and drop the balls in. Boil for 4 minutes
  7. Remove the balls from the pan and place it in a bowl of ice water to cool
  8. Once cooled take them out to dry
  9. Display the dumplings in a pyramid shape. There are 2 theories on how many dumplings to display. It is either 15, 13, or 12 or 13 (on a leap year). If you are displaying 15, the 1st layer - 9 balls, 2nd layer - 4 balls and 3rd layer 2 balls.

To represent the full moon, I make yellow dango to put on top of the pyramid. The yellow color comes from kabocha squash, which is in season between the late summer to fall. Find Moon Viewing Rice Dumplings Tsukimi Dango stock images in HD and millions of other royalty-free stock photos, illustrations and vectors in the Shutterstock collection. Thousands of new, high-quality pictures added every day. List of recipes Dumplings for Moon-viewing (お月見団子, o-tsukimi dango) is a sellable item listed under Dango/Manju.

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