![]() ![]() ![]() If not, you make your own red bean paste with some of your pantry reserves. You may be able to find canned or jarred red bean / azuki paste in a local Asian supermarket. If you don’t have it, here is way to substitute All-Purpose Flour + Corn Starch. This recipe called for cake flour, which was easier to come by pre-pandemic. There are many Taiyaki recipes out there, and we started with one from Just One Cookbook. Though the fish shape is intricate, Taiyaki are really no harder to make than waffles (albeit with a hand-held iron instead of an automatic one). However, my sister gave us a Taiyaki iron for Christmas, so we have been able to recreate Taiyaki at home for the first time. Fortunately, in the past few years more restaurants in the US are taking cues from the Taiyaki’s homeland of Japan, and are making these fish waffles fresh to order (we have had them recently at Taiyaki NYC and Mini Mott). We first experienced Taiyaki at Japanese restaurants in the US, and in frozen packets at the Mitsuwa grocery store. The hand-held snack has a centuries-long history and the fish shape, tai, symbolically conveys wealth. Originating in Japan, Taiyaki has a waffle-like base, and is traditionally filled with red bean paste. Inadvertently, this is an appropriate post for Poisson D’Avril / April Fool’s Day, but the recipe is no joke! Cartoon-fish-shaped Taiyaki may be the cutest dessert there is. ![]()
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