# HANAMI DANGO DE ITACHI

A delicious and easy-to-make Japanese pastry, dango, in three colors: white, pink (sakura), and green (matcha).

- Total time: 10 min
- Cuisine: Japanese
- Category: Dessert
- Language: en

## Ingredients

- 40 g farine de riz gluant
- 60 g shiratamako
- 8 cl eau chaude
- 2 cuil. à soupe sucre blanc
- Colorant rose / sakura
- 1 cuil. à thé matcha en poudre à pâtisser

## Instructions

1. Mix sticky rice flour, shiratamako, sugar, and hot water to obtain a beautiful ball of pasta.
2. Knead the dough until it has a modeling clay-like texture.
3. Add pink dye and matcha to separate pasta balls to get three colors: white, matcha, and pink.
4. Roll the dough and cut it into small portions of 15 to 25g.
5. Roll these small balls of pasta in your hands.
6. Cook the dango balls for 2 to 3 minutes in boiling water until they come to the surface.
7. Immediately place the cooked dango in ice water to stop their cooking and to be able to manipulate them.
8. Take small wooden pin picks and thread the dango onto them.

## Equipment

- wooden pin picks

## Tips

- If you don’t like matcha, simply use food coloring.

## Source

- Original video: https://www.tiktok.com/@gastronogeekofficiel/video/7402284619476765984?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id=7590767474443011606
- Recipe page: https://www.cliprecipe.com/recipe/3f048bde-99db-43ab-8137-f64dae0d8658
- Extracted: 2026-01-02

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