Recipe: Delicious Kuri Kinton (Chestnut and Sweet Potato Kinton)

Kuri Kinton (Chestnut and Sweet Potato Kinton). Kuri Kinton or Candied Chestnuts and Sweet Potatoes are a special Japanese New Year dish, which symbolizes economic fortune and wealth. Let's make this gold color food for a prosperous year ahead! For the final post on the Osechi Ryori (Japanese New Year Meal) series, I am sharing another popular dish called Kuri Kinton (Candied Chestnuts.

Kuri kinton is a beautiful golden color, the symbol of wealth. Kuri Kinton is sweet chestnuts mixed in mashed sweet potatoes. It is a part of Osechi Ryori, the traditional Japanese new year feast. You can cook Kuri Kinton (Chestnut and Sweet Potato Kinton) using 3 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Kuri Kinton (Chestnut and Sweet Potato Kinton)

It's 1 of middle sized sweet potato (about 250g without skin).
It's 1 pack of candied chestnuts (kuri no kanro-ni, mine was 160g).
Prepare 1-1.5 Tbsp of syrup of the candied chestnuts.

There are a lot of kinds of dishes for Osechi Ryori, and Kuri Kinton is one of the most popular dishes for kids as it is sweet like a dessert. Remove the mixture from the pot and let cool in a container. Kuri Kinton 栗金飩 is one of the items of osechi-ryōri, traditional Japanese New Year/oshougatsu foods. It is a sweetened and mashed Japanese sweet potato with sweet chestnuts.

Kuri Kinton (Chestnut and Sweet Potato Kinton) instructions

Boil the washed and sliced sweet potato in a pot until it gets soft (as a skewer or fork goes smoothly into the potato) . You can peel before boiling (though, I didn't this time)..
Mash the potato..
Cut the chestnuts if you like..
Mix the chestnuts with the potato. Add the syrup and mix well..
Enjoy!.

The characters for kinton literally mean 'group of gold', so with the golden color of this sweet, it represents a wish for wealth and financial success. Mashed Japanese yam with chestnuts called "Kuri Kinton" (栗きんとん) is my absolute favorite osechi, and I don't think I've ever missed eating it on New Year's Day. "Kuri" means chestnut. The meaning of "kinton" is too complicated to explain in a couple of sentences. Kuri kinton is a sweeter osechi ryori dish, made by combining mashed satsuma imo (Japanese sweet potatoes) with candied chestnuts. Once made, the dish has a distinct golden yellow colour, which symbolises wealth, prosperity, and good luck.