Milk Pudding with Kokuto Sauce and Kinako
牛乳プリン · Gyunyu Purin
By Aoi, licensed nutritionist · From a Japanese preschool lunch menu
This is a simple milk pudding set with gelatin, the kind we serve as an afternoon snack at preschool. It is only lightly sweetened, so the topping does the work: a syrup made from kokuto (Japanese unrefined brown sugar, best known from Okinawa) and a dusting of kinako, the roasted soybean flour that also goes on warabi mochi and other traditional Japanese sweets. The combination of cool, wobbly pudding and nutty, caramel-like topping goes down easily with even the smallest children, and there is no egg or baking involved.
Contains kokuto (Japanese brown sugar), which should not be given to babies under 1 year old.
Added. Open the recipe helper (bottom right) → ☰ Menu → 🛒 Shopping list to see the ingredients for your family size.
Printing uses the number of adults and children set under Ingredients, so set those first.
Ingredients
Amounts for 1 child (1 serving). An adult counts as 2 servings.
One serving here is 1.5× the portion served to a child in a Japanese preschool, sized for Western appetites. An adult counts as two servings. Tap an ingredient to check it off.
Seasonings
- 2.2 ggelatin
- 20.3 mlwater
- 9 gsugar
- 4.5 gkokuto (Japanese brown sugar)An unrefined dark cane sugar from Okinawa with a deep, molasses-like flavor. Substitute: Dark brown sugar or muscovado.
- 3 gkinako (roasted soybean flour)A nutty, lightly sweet powder made from roasted ground soybeans, often dusted over mochi or rice. Substitute: No close substitute - look for kinako (sometimes sold as roasted soybean flour) at a Japanese or Asian grocery, or online.
Ingredients
- 90 mlmilk
About the Japanese ingredients in this recipe
- kokuto (Japanese brown sugar) (黒砂糖)
- An unrefined dark cane sugar from Okinawa with a deep, molasses-like flavor. Substitute: Dark brown sugar or muscovado.
- kinako (roasted soybean flour) (きな粉)
- A nutty, lightly sweet powder made from roasted ground soybeans, often dusted over mochi or rice. Substitute: No close substitute - look for kinako (sometimes sold as roasted soybean flour) at a Japanese or Asian grocery, or online.
Directions
- 1
Sprinkle the gelatin into hot water and stir well until it dissolves. Once dissolved, stir in the sugar.
- 2
Warm the milk in a saucepan to about 40°C (104°F), roughly body temperature (if the milk gets too hot, the pudding takes longer to set). Add it to the gelatin mixture from step 1 and stir to combine.
- 3
Pour into pudding cups and chill in the refrigerator until set.
- 4
Make the sauce: put the kokuto and water in a small saucepan and heat until the sugar dissolves. Spoon the sauce over the set puddings from step 3 and sprinkle with kinako.
For children in the final weaning stage (around 12 to 18 months), serve the pudding plain, without the kokuto sauce or kinako.
Nutrition
| Per | 1 serving | 1 adult serving | Your total |
|---|---|---|---|
| Energy | 127.5 kcal | 255 kcal | 127.5 kcal |
| Protein | 6.1 g | 12.3 g | 6.1 g |
| Fat | 4.2 g | 8.4 g | 4.2 g |
| Carbohydrates | 18.3 g | 36.6 g | 18.3 g |
| Fiber | 0.6 g | 1.2 g | 0.6 g |
| Salt equivalent | 0.2 g | 0.3 g | 0.2 g |
| Calcium | 115.5 mg | 231 mg | 115.5 mg |
| Iron | 0.5 mg | 0.9 mg | 0.5 mg |
| Potassium | 244.5 mg | 489 mg | 244.5 mg |
| Energy | Protein | Fat | Carbs | Fiber | Salt equiv. | Calcium | Iron | Potassium | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 serving | 127.5 kcal | 6.1 g | 4.2 g | 18.3 g | 0.6 g | 0.2 g | 115.5 mg | 0.5 mg | 244.5 mg |
| 1 adult serving | 255 kcal | 12.3 g | 8.4 g | 36.6 g | 1.2 g | 0.3 g | 231 mg | 0.9 mg | 489 mg |
Values are per serving (1.5× the Japanese preschool portion); an adult serving is double. They were calculated by a licensed Japanese nutritionist using the Standard Tables of Food Composition in Japan. "Salt equivalent" is sodium × 2.54, the standard Japanese measure. Allergen flags cover egg, milk and wheat only and come from the nutritionist's records. Soy sauce and miso are made with wheat but are usually allowed on Japanese wheat-free school menus, so check with your doctor.
