The Makanai: Cooking for the Maiko House Cooking Azuki Hatto and Azuki Batto

Having a gathering? Want a sweet treat? Cook azuki hatto!! Put it in the fridge & make the azuki hatto into azuki batto. It's a simple dish consisting of simple ingredients, cooked azuki beans & kishimen noodles. It's popular to eat during gatherings in the Tōhoku region of Japan, including Aomori prefecture. Watch the live action version on Netflix: The Makanai: Cooking for the Maiko House.

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Aomori is where Chiyo and Suu-chan from the manga Maiko-san Chi no Makanai-san (Kiyo in Kyoto: From the Maiko House) (舞妓さんちのまかないさん) grew up. It's created by the mangaka Aiko Koyama. Chiyo cooked the azuki hatto for the maiko house in Kyoto where she works for all the hungry maiko's in training. Suu-chan, Chiyo's best friend, works as a maiko in the same house but is staying with her geiko aka Kyoto geisha "older sister" to practice for a major event.

As Chiyo & Suu-chan are childhood friends, Chiyo knows Suu-chan is a hard worker & will work hard to strive for perfection. Chiyo remembers a time when they were younger & Suu-chan was still working hard in the fields of Aomori while everyone else who was also working in the fields had finished & gathered to eat, including azuki hatto. By the time Suu-chan returned her portion had been put in the fridge and chilled to become azuki hatto. Suu-chan prefers it cold as it's a reminder & reward for her hard work.

Back in the present time Chiyo left Suu-chan's portion of the azuki hatto in the maiko house fridge for her to eat as azuki batto when she returned from practicing.

Ingredients:
1 cup of raw azuki beans (210 grams)
1 packet of chow fun noodles (you can replace it with kishimen noodles like the manga if you can find it available)
3/4 - 1 cup of sugar, depending on how sweet you want your azuki beans to be
1/2 teaspoon of salt
12 cups of water

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Recipe:
1. Put the azuki beans in a washing bowl
2. Rinse the azuki beans
3. Drain the water from the bowl
4. Put 4 cups of water in a pot to boil
5. Put the azuki beans in the pot with water
6. Boil the water in the pot. If you see any beans floating to the top of the water while the water is boiling remove it as the bean is not good to eat
7. After the water has boiled, drain the water from the pot but leave the azuki beans in the pot
8. Refill the pot again with 4 cups of waters
9. Boil the water again
10. When the water has boiled, lower the temperature to medium low & let it simmer for 1 to 1.5 hours. Remove any scum you see. If the water level goes below the top of the beans refill the pot with enough water to cover the beans
11. Test whether the beans are done cooking by picking one up & squishing it between your fingers. If it's easy to squish then the beans are done cooking
12. Turn off stove top
13. Add 1/4 of the sugar to the azuki beans & mix. Repeat this step until you run out of sugar. Mix until the sugar has dissolved
14. Add the salt to the azuki beans & mix. Leave the beans off to the side after you're done as they are done cooking
15. Put enough water in a new pot to cook the chow fun noodles
16. Boil the water
17. Put the chow fun noodles in the boiling water. Spread the noodles to allow for even cooking
18. Drain the chow fun noodles in a strainer
19. Rinse the chow fun noodles under cold water to stop the cooking process
20. Add the chow fun noodles to the azuki bean pot & mix

Azuki hatto is now finished

To make it to Suu-chan's favorite, azuki batto, there's one more step.

21. Put the azuki hatto into the fridge to chill & it becomes azuki batto

Enjoy your reward

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