Ingredients for 10 pieces.
There are several types of Japanese Yam potatoes. It's good to use freeze-dried yam powder for making sweets. *Grated Yam 40g = 10g Yam powder + 30ml Water
Jouyo ko is one of rice flour which is made of non glutinous rice and finely ground one.
Wrap red bean jam balls with a paper towel to take their water.
Make 10 bean jam ovals.
Make dough & Divide it into 10---Add 80g of sugar into 40g of grated Yamaimo. Mix them well. Put the Yamaimo mixture into 50-55g of "jouyo-ko (rice flour)". Mix them.
Put the rice flour onto the yamaimo mixture and fold it. Divide the dough into 10, as using dusting flour.
Make Snowmen with the dough & bean jam.---Extend a dough into a circle as using dusting flour. Make the center thick. Wrap a bean jam ball with the dough. Make it oval.
Pinch it with chopsticks to make its neck. Make paints with food colorings, rice flour and water.
Put eyes with the blue paint. Put a mouth with the red paint. Put buttons with the green paint.
Put them in a steamer and spray water over them. Steam them for 8 minuites. Then cool them with a cotton clothes cover not to get dry.
