手作りおせち料理 栗きんとん ・Kurikinton
Every New Year's Eve, I cook Osech ryouri,
_ traditional Japanese new year's dishes.
One of them was Kurikinton, a kind of food
made with mashed sweet potatoes and sweetened chestnuts.
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I wonder who started to use it as a pigment.
I always use dried gardenia fruits to color the sweet potatoes bright yellow.
In ancient days, they were used as medicine.
Anyway, I put a chestnut in the center of mashed sweet potatoes and wrapped it with a plastic wrap and made it Cyakin shape.
Nowadays, not so many people make Osechi anymore,
but I am proud of myself for cooking them.