Baby harbor seal -Jouyo Manju (Wagashi)

Ingredients for 10 pieces.

Utensils

Make dough. Add the sugar into the grated Yamaimo. Mix them. Put the Yamaimo mixture into the jouyo-ko(rice flower).

Put the jouyo-ko(rice flower) onto the yamaimo mixture and fold it. Mix them until the dough becomes like "squeezing an earlobe". Divide the dough into 10.

Make a beam jam ball oval. Wrap it with the dough.

Make it a baby seal shape.

Paint its tip of the nose blue with a blush.

Put eyes.

Put them in a steamer and spray water over them.

Steam them for 8minuites.

Then cool them down (with a cotton clothes cover not to get dry).