cocoa yōkan

ingredients:

• 2 tablespoons cocoa
• 5 1/4 ounces mashed
• sweetened red bean paste
• 1 tablespoon agar
• 1 1/2 teaspoons potato starch (katakuriko)
• 2 ounces sugar
• 1 cup water

step 1:

Boil the mashed sweetened red bean paste, sugar, water, potato starch and agar in a pan and stir a couple of minutes. Remove from heat.

step 2:

Pour into four small bowls. Chill for one hour in the refrigerator.