Kinako, also known as soybean flour, is a product commonly used in Japanese cuisine. In order to create the soybean powder, soybeans are toasted and ground into powder. It’s flavour is commonly compared to that of peanut butter.
Ingredients: soy beans 1 cup(200cc)
1) discard beans showing broke skin or with an unusual colour.
2)put them inside a clean cloth sack and roll them inside your fingers.
3)use a pan with as thick a bottom sa possible. roast for 10-12minutes with medium heat.Stir around with wooden spatula. The soybeans will emit their smell making small “noises” at the sme time.
4)transfer to a container and cool them down.
5)place roasted soybeans into a food processor/ coffee grip
6)sieve powder through a fine strainer.
7)the powder obtained should be fragrant and almost sweet.
8)kinako should be eaten as soon as possible. Please keep it in a fridge.
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