Dorayaki (Sweet Bean Pancakes). Fill Your Cart With Color Today! Traditional Japanese confection dorayaki is made of two hand-sized American-style pancakes sandwiched together with a sweet filling, the most popular of which is azuki red beans (). However, custard, chestnuts (kuri), and cream (matcha cream, cream with fruits, etc.) are also popular.

Dorayaki (Sweet Bean Pancakes)

Legend has it that the first Dorayaki were made when a samurai named Benkei forgot his gong ('dora' in Japanese) upon leaving a farmer's home where he was hiding and the farmer used the gong to fry the pancakes, thus the name Dorayaki. These are really yummy and great for a brunch or snack. The adzuki bean paste is known as anko. You can cook Dorayaki (Sweet Bean Pancakes) using 8 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Dorayaki (Sweet Bean Pancakes)

It's 30 g of sugar.
Prepare 1 of egg.
You need 80 to 100 ml of milk.
Prepare 120 g of flour.
It's 1 tsp of baking soda.
You need 1 pinch of salt.
It's 1 Tbsp of mirin (sweet sake).
Prepare 1 can of Azuki / red bean paste.

Dorayaki (Sweet Bean Pancakes) You can make Japanese style pancakes easily at home if you have sweet bean paste! Have a nice tea time with Dorayaki. Dorayaki is one of the most popular Japanese confectioneries. It is Anko (sweet red bean paste) sandwiched between sweet pancakes.

Dorayaki (Sweet Bean Pancakes) step by step

Prepare a bowl and add in the egg and sugar. Mix them well then slowly add milk..
Add flour, a pinch of salt, mirin and baking soda and mix them well. (note: dissolve the baking soda in one tsp of hot water before putting it into a bowl).
Heat a pan with one teaspoon of oil. Wipe off excess oil with a paper towel. Then pour in 2 Tbsp of the batter until it is about 8 cm in diameter. When you see many bubbly spots on the surface of the pancake, it is time to flip it around. Cook the other side for a few minutes on low heat. The mixture should make about 12 pancakes..
Put one Tbsp of bean paste on one pancake and cover it with another pancake. Do the same for the rest of the pancakes and you're done! Enjoy Dorayaki with hot green tea :).

It is a Japanese sweet beloved by the old and young. It may be perfect for people who have never had any traditional Japanese sweets because it doesn't have any unusual ingredients. Like the Dorayaki, some kind of east-meets-west small pancakes, that are mostly filled with anko, the sweet azuki bean paste, however, custard, chestnuts and cream (matcha, chocolate, cream with fruits, etc) are also popular. Both kinds of Dorayaki can be stored in a freezer and they can be thawed at room temperature. When frozen, each Dorayaki wrapped with a plastic wrap should be put in a zipper storage bag.