Morinaga Milk Industry has released a new flavor "MOW Milk and Azuki" that feels autumn today (October 14th).

If there is a new product in collaboration with Yuki Aoyama, who is also famous as a gastronomic academy, and the popular ice cream "MOW", you can't help but eat the En-eating editorial department. So I bought it and tried it.

Colored package that makes you feel autumn
Colored package that makes you feel autumn

■ The concept of "MOW milk and azuki" is "simmered cousin" to eat at the winter solstice?

Under the supervision of Yuki Aoyama, "MOW Milk and Azuki" released this time is a combination of pumpkin and azuki beans with milk ice cream that you can enjoy the smooth texture and richness of milk unique to "MOW". Cup ice cream.

Pumpkin sauce using Hokkaido pumpkin is embedded in milk ice cream and topped with Hokkaido azuki beans. You can enjoy the gentle sweetness and texture created by the combination of "pumpkin and azuki", which is perfect for autumn.

"Pumpkin and azuki", this combination is the same as "Itoko-boiled", which is said to "do not catch a cold when eaten at the winter solstice". Is that a new flavor created with the idea of not catching a cold ...?

This is "simmered cousin". It looks exactly like the color of the package! ??
This is "simmered cousin". It looks exactly like the color of the package! ??

■ I bought it!

The package of "MOW Milk and Azuki" is a color scheme that makes you feel autumn by layering azuki-like reddish brown on a mountain-blow color reminiscent of pumpkin.

■ I opened it!

After removing the lid, the azuki beans that were tightly packed so as to cover the milk part appeared. And in the meantime, a glimpse of bright yellow. That must be a pumpkin ...!

Azuki is rumbling
Azuki is rumbling

■ I tried it!

When you try it, you will first feel the rich milk taste peculiar to MOW, and then the nostalgic sweetness of azuki beans and the crunchy texture will follow. Rich sweetness like eating azuki beans with condensed milk. The pumpkin sauce that goes through your nose after swallowing is a good accent.

Pumpkin and azuki, like eating the ingredients as they are
Pumpkin and azuki, like eating the ingredients as they are

By the way, could "MOW Milk and Azuki" reproduce the "simmered cousin" with ice cream? Unfortunately, I didn't quite understand when I tried it. Because this is not a simmered dish. It's ice cream. But isn't it okay because it's delicious? After all, it's a pumpkin in winter, isn't it?

The price of "MOW milk and azuki" is 150 yen. It's cheap if you don't catch a cold. By the way, this winter solstice is December 22nd!