Taiyaki - cooking recipe

Ingredients

2 cups wheat flour
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons sugar
1 cup water
6 ounces azuki beans, mashed and mixed with enough sugar to form a thick sweet paste
vegetable oil

Preparation

Cooking time is actually UNKNOWN and will likely vary with stoves!
Stir flour, water, salt, and sugar thoroughly. Add baking soda.
Heat the Taiyaki-ki (fish mold) on both sides briefly so it is warm, not in intense heat.
Spread the oil in the Taiyaki-ki and pour the mixed ingredients into the Taiyaki-ki filling it half way.
Put Azuki beans over the mixed ingredients in the Taiyaki-ki.
Pour additional mixed ingredients on Azuki filling the Taiyaki-ki.
Close the Taiyaki-ki and heat both sides turning the Taiyaki-ki over at intervals.
Let it cool and enjoy the Taiyaki.
Additionally, a Taiyaki-ki, or fish mold, is needed to make Taiyaki. You can purchase one through yahoo stores.
Source(s):
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=1006051824265.