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The Satsuma noted product "Karukan" is very popular sweets in Kagoshima. There are also many makers who are making "Karukan", and it is made and eaten also at home. And "Karukan" powder of the material is also sold.

The "Karukan" powder (: regular rice was dried and it is somewhat coarser than rice flour)

The "Karukan" is a cylindrical thing like sweet bean paste from the first, and it is said that the steamed filled dumplings into which red bean paste etc. was put appeared after that. It is said that cylindrical "Karukan" is also sold also at now. The way of thinking which mixed and steamed the powder and the yam of rice is wonderful.



That outsides are steamed filled dumplings of a pure white sponge system, and inside is smooth sweet beans. Also as dough is sponge cake, it also seems to be "Ganduki". They are wonderful steamed filled dumplings with a little scents of a yam. Taste which has not been eaten until now. In the steamed filled dumplings eaten until now, it is a taste of an adult with least sweet taste.


  Japanese : Karukan
Name : Steamed cake
Article name : Karukan steamed bun
Raw materials : sugar, yam, rice flour, adzuki bean, egg white

Maker : Kumenya
Kokubu-shi, Kagoshima
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