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To my foodie Steemians "Kon'nichiwa!!! " I wanna present to you this famous Japanese bread recipe called "Sakura Anpan".

What is "Sakura Anpan"?

There is something about this sweet roll that became very famous in Japan and even it continued to be popular up to this present day. Sakura sweet rolls or commonly known in Japan as "Anpan" is a traditonal bread originally made by Yasubei Kimura (1875) that is filled with bean paste.

This Anpan bread was then presented to the Meiji Emperor and for luck the Emperor loved the taste of it. In fact he even told Yasubei to send him Anpan everyday. Since then, the bread became famous when Japanese people knew it's the Emperor's favourite they began to like it too.

So I went to the grocery store today to get a pink dragonfruit for my coloring but unfortunately while shooting the video I was astonished that it's a white baby.

How could I....

(Watch this youtube video for full recipe)

Panicking, I thought I really, really needed the color pink, I really want my Sakura to have that girly girlaloo pinkish color. So I found a way. I scrapped the dragonfruit skin which is basicaly pink and blended it together with the fruit and boom! I got a pink coloring for my dough. Haha!

The tragedy didn't stop there. Alright I started baking my Sakura babies and once they hit the oven, deng! They evolved into monster yellowish babies! Why oh why? I'm kind of disappointed but it's fine. My pink babies are gone. Now it's grown into a yellow big sakura. So goodbye to the pink babies.

Well, I'd redo this recipe next time but probably gonna use beet instead to retain its pink color. Haha. Anyways, learning lessons never stop. They just teach you how to get better.

So here's my Sakura Anpan recipe.

INGREDIENTS

• 2 cups spelt flour
• 3 tbsp olive oil
• 2 tsp baking powder
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 1/2 cup coconut sugar
• 1 cup water
• 1 cup white kidney beans
• 1 tsp salt
• 2 tsp yeast

DIRECTIONS

1. In a medium heat, boil white kidney beans in 3 cups water for 10 mins.
2. Drain and wash the beans using a strainer and reboil it again with 2 cups of water for another 5 mins or until tender and soft.
3. Meanwhile, in a mixing bowl, add spelt flour and salt and mix well. Set aside.
4. Using a blender, add dragonfruit and a cup of water and pulse. Drain the dragonfruit mixture using a strainer and reserve dragonfruit water.
5. Add yeast to the dragonfruit water and set aside for 2 mins.
6. When the white beans are soft enough, remove from heat and drain it using a strainer carefully pressing down the beans to make a paste. Discard white bean shell residue from the strainer.
7. In a low heat, add the bean mixture into the pan, stir and add coconut sugar gently mixing it to combine for 2 mins and remove from heat.
8. Preheat oven at 320F / 160C.
9. Add the dragonfruit mixture to the flour and and combine. Knead the dough for 5 mins. Let the dough rise in a covered bowl for 20 mins.
10. When the dough is ready and doubled its size, form a ball and divide it into 10 equal sizes.
11. Roll each slices and form small balls. Flatten it out, add the bean mixture and wrap it to form a bigger ball. Flatten it out again, make five slits, hold each end of the slit and pull it together to shape it into petals. Do it five times to make five petals.
12. Bake for 10 mins at 320F / 160C. Top the center of flower sweet rolls with your favorite topping (nuts, cacao, chocolate drops or berries).

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