Homemade! Osechi Kuri-Kinton. This video will show you how to make Kuri Kinton, sweet chestnuts mixed in mashed sweet potatoes. It is a part of Osechi Ryori, the traditional Japanese new. Kuri Kinton is sweet chestnuts mixed in mashed sweet potatoes.

Check out kuri kinton — mashed sweet potatoes with candied chestnuts. It has a sweet rich flavor and a nice golden color that symbolizes wealth and good fortune. A very popular osechi ryori (New Year's dish) in Japan, this sweet but healthy plate will have your guests impressed and asking for seconds. You can have Homemade! Osechi Kuri-Kinton using 8 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Homemade! Osechi Kuri-Kinton

You need 15 of chestnuts Candied Japanese chestnuts.
Prepare 350 grams of peeled Sweet potato.
You need 2 of Dried gardenia fruit.
It's 1 of Sugar (if necessary).
You need 80 ml of ＊Mirin.
It's 100 ml of ＊Syrup of the candied Japanese chestnuts.
It's 1 of tablespoon+ Sweet potato cooking water.
Prepare 1 pinch of Salt.

Kuri Kinton is a well known Japanese dish comprised of mashed sweet potato with sweet chestnuts. It's a delicious meal for all. Osechi Ryori are the traditional foods enjoyed on New Year's day in Japan. They come in an assortment of colorful dishes packed together in special boxes called jubako, which resemble bento boxes.

Homemade! Osechi Kuri-Kinton step by step

Thickly peel sweet potatoes and cut them in half lengthwise. Cut into 1 cm thick slices and soak them in water..
Drain the sweet potatoes. Wrap the gardenia in gauze and crush. Add both to a pot with ample water and boil over medium heat until tender..
Reserve part of (about 100 ml) the cooking water, to use later for adjusting the consistency..
Drain the potatoes in a colander and blend in a food processor with mirin, candied chestnuts syrup, and 1 tablespoon cooking water..
Taste, add sugar as needed, and blend (I have never added sugar)..
Put the mixture back into the pot over low heat and stir with a wooden spatula until it thickens a bit..
Add the chestnuts and salt, stir it a bit more and it's ready. It hardens when it cools, so turn off the heat when it still seems a bit loose..
If it gets stiff while stirring, add some of the cooking water to adjust..

Every dish of these traditional foods has special meaning in welcoming the New Year. Kuri Kinton is a traditional Japanese New Year's food (osechi) made from sweet potato and chestnuts. Each osechi dish has a symbolic meaning, and Japanese often return to their hometowns and gather to have osechi on New Year's Day. Osechi Ryori (お節料理) are the traditional foods eaten on New Year's day in Japan. Each dish in an osechi jubako has some symbolic significance.