Hey everyone, it’s Brad, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, gomoku chirashizushi. It is one of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Enjoy Chirashizushi sushi in no time with MIZKAN Gomoku Chirashizushi Sushi Mix Base. Simply mix this base to boiled rice and serve it with your favorite sashimi, egg and vegetables such as avocado and cucumber, and nori seaweed. Gomoku-Chirashi is a traditional Japanese home dish which is delicious and nutritious, and a kind of Chirashi-sushi. The recipe here does not use fish or fish roe, but rather vegetables.
Gomoku Chirashizushi is one of the most well liked of current trending meals on earth. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. They are fine and they look wonderful. Gomoku Chirashizushi is something which I have loved my entire life.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook gomoku chirashizushi using 22 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Gomoku Chirashizushi:
- Prepare [Toppings]
- Prepare 1/2 (approximately 70 g) carrot
- Take 4 dried shiitake mushroom
- Take 50 g lotus root
- Make ready 2 sheets deep fried tofu
- Make ready 1 tub koya tofu (freeze-dried tofu)
- Make ready 250 mL Dashi : (A)
- Take 3 tbsp soy sauce: (A)
- Prepare 3 tbsp sugar: (A)
- Get 200 mL Liquid after soaking shiitake mushrooms: (A)
- Take 2 tbsp mirin: (A)
- Get 2 tbsp Sake: (A)
- Get 2 egg with 1 tbsp starch dissolved in 2 tbsp water
- Prepare Sakura denbu (mashed and seasoned fish with white flesh, optional)
- Get 8 boiled prawn
- Get Snow peas: Adjust to suit your needs (boiled, optional)
- Make ready [Sushi Rice]
- Take 700 g uncooked rice
- Prepare 700 mL water
- Prepare 80 mL vinegar
- Get 5 tbsp sugar
- Get 2 tsp salt
This bright and colorful dish is made of sushi rice with a variety of vegetables mixed in, and toppings sprinkled over the top. The dishes you see in Japanese restaurants outside of Japan is just a tiny, tiny collection of what we eat in Japan. Sometimes the sushi rice is mixed with cooked vegetable pieces, like the vegetables I cooked when making Gomoku Gohan. Mixing vegetables are usually carrot, shiitake mushrooms and lotus roots.
Steps to make Gomoku Chirashizushi:
- [Ingredients and toppings] - Slice boiled prawns into halves.
- Soak shiitake mushrooms and freeze-dried tofu to reconstitute them. If you have a microwave oven, microwave shiitake mushrooms and water for 3 minutes and leave them 15 minutes at room temperature.
- Cut a carrot and some freeze-dried tofu into thin strips. Slice shiitake mushrooms. Slice lotus root into quarter circles. Soak the lotus root in vinegared water to remove bitterness. Then drain the vinegared water.
- Keep 50 mL of the liquid after soaking shiitake mushrooms.
- Put [*A] in a pot and add carrot, shiitake mushrooms, freeze-dried tofu, lotus roots and deep-fried tofu in the pot. Boil down over medium heat while sometimes mixing.
- Beat the eggs. Heat a frying pan. Grease it with a few drops oil. Spread the beaten egg over the pan and cook over medium-high heat. Slice the cooked egg into thin strips.
- [Sushi rice] - Prepare warm rice. To learn how to cook warm rice, check this page.
- Dissolve sugar and salt in vinegar and add to the warm rice. Mix them gently.
- Add the simmered ingredients to the rice and mix them gently.
- Serve in a bowl. Sprinkle sliced egg and denbu. Sprinkle boiled snow peas and prawns.
Sometimes the sushi rice is mixed with cooked vegetable pieces, like the vegetables I cooked when making Gomoku Gohan. Mixing vegetables are usually carrot, shiitake mushrooms and lotus roots. Chirashizushi is a dish with a lot of colorful toppings and full of vegetables, seasonal ingredients, raw fish and so on. We serve this when we celebrate special occasions. You can create your Chirasizushi as you wish.
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