'Kinako' Biscuits. I attempted to make 'Kinako' (finely ground roasted soy beans) at home by toasting dry raw soy beans and grinding them, but my electric grinder didn't make very fine powder. Then I tried to make biscuits using the ground soy beans. Line a baking tray with baking paper. Then I tried to make biscuits using the ground soy beans. Milk with KINAKO ; KINAKO biscuits and so on.
If you like Matcha, don't you want to try Kinako too?
Both of them are Japanese traditional foods.
You can make your own Kinako latte at home easily.
You can cook 'Kinako' Biscuits using 5 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you achieve it.
Ingredients of 'Kinako' Biscuits
- You need 125 g of Butter *softened.
- Prepare 1/4 cup of Sugar.
- You need pinch of Salt.
- It's 1 cup of Plain Flour.
- You need 1/2 cup of Kinako *See http://www.hirokoliston.com/what-is-it/.
Add kinako, salt and baking powder and mix into a good. Remove from the baking sheet to cool on a wire rack. My friend who loves roasted soybean flour (Kinako) requested these. きな粉. Mix kinako sugar ingredients in a bowl.
'Kinako' Biscuits instructions
- Preheat oven to 160°C. Line a baking tray with baking paper..
- Mix all ingredients and knead gently until smooth..
- Roll dough into 2 to 2.5cm balls and place them on the baking tray lined with baking paper allowing some room for spreading. (They won’t spread much.).
- Bake for 20 minutes or until lightly coloured. Allow to cool on tray..
When donuts are cool, dip in kinako sugar and generously coat. For the pastry cream filling, I based my recipe off the Kitchn's pastry cream recipe. See their page for photos and more detailed instructions on how to make the pastry cream. Yet nailing the recipe has eluded me for years. These don't smell like much of anything, despite being liberally covered in kinako powder (toasted soy bean flour).