Hey everyone, it’s me, Dave, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, chirashisushi for hinamatsuri (girls' day). It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Chirashizushi is a kind of sushi that served on a plate with colorful toppings. The basic toppings are eggs, shiitake mushrooms, sashimi, flying fish roe, imitation crab meat, Sakura denbu, etc… This time, I put kinshitamago (shredded omelet), picked lotus roots, shredded snow peas, nori seaweed, and ikura (salmon roe) on sushi rice. In my home town of Yamanashi, we celebrate Hinamatsuri in April, we're a little later than the rest of Japan. Hinamatsuri or Girls' Day in Japan is celebrated with special foods, such as chirashi sushi, clam soup, and strawberry daifuku.
Chirashisushi for Hinamatsuri (Girls' Day) is one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions every day. Chirashisushi for Hinamatsuri (Girls' Day) is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They are nice and they look fantastic.
To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook chirashisushi for hinamatsuri (girls' day) using 14 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Chirashisushi for Hinamatsuri (Girls' Day):
- Make ready 900 ml worth raw rice, cooked
- Prepare 10 cm square sheet of Kombu seaweed for dashi stock
- Prepare 1 Carrot
- Get 8 Eggs
- Prepare 1 Lotus root, medium sized
- Get 8 Dried shiitake mushrooms, large
- Prepare 1 Burdock root, medium sized
- Prepare 1 Cooked bamboo shoot in brine, medium sized
- Take Sushi vinegar
- Get 100 ml Vinegar
- Make ready 3 tbsp Sugar
- Get 1 tsp Salt
- Take 1 Snow peas
- Prepare 1 Red pickled ginger
One of the five seasonal festivals, or sekku, Hinamatsuri celebrates girl children and prays for their health and happiness in the coming year. During Hinmatsuri, families with daughters will display a se ****Hinamatsuri, Girls' Day. Hinamatsuri traces its origins to an ancient Japanese custom called hina-nagashi (雛流し, lit. "doll floating"), in which straw hina dolls are set afloat on a boat and sent down a river to the sea, supposedly taking troubles or bad spirits with them. This Japanese holiday is dedicated to girls and their families' hopes for a bright and happy future.
Steps to make Chirashisushi for Hinamatsuri (Girls' Day):
- [Filling 1 carrot ] Julienne the carrot into 3-4 cm lengths. Put the carrot in a sauce pan and enough dashi stock to submerge. Add 1 tablespoon of sugar and a pinch of salt. Cook until all the liquid has evaporated.
- [Filling 2 bamboo shoots and burdock root] Slice the bamboo shoots into 3 cm long batons. Shred the burdock root. Cook separately or together.
- Pour the dashi stock, 2 teaspoons of sugar, 1 teaspoon of mirin and 1 teaspoon of soy sauce. Cook until all the moisture is evaporated.
- [Filling 3 shitake mushrooms] Rehydrate the shiitake mushrooms and put them in a sauce pan. Combine the dashi, 2 tablespoons of sugar, 1 tablespoon of soy sauce and 1 teaspoon of mirin and cook.
- [Filling 4 lotus root] Slice the lotus root thinly and cook with 1/3 cup of vinegar and 3 tablespoons of sugar until the liquid has evaporated.
- [Thin omelets] Beat the eggs with 2 tablespoons of sugar, 1 teaspoon of salt and 2 tablespoons of katakuriko dissolved in water. Make thin omelets and slice thinly.
- [Sushi rice] Add the kombuto the rice and cook. While the rice is really hot, mix in the sushi vinegar and leave to rest for 1 minutes. Mix well and cool the rice at the same time using a fan for glossy rice grains.
- Mix the sushi rice with the fillings from Steps 1 to 4 and garnish with thin omelet, cooked snow peas and red pickled ginger on top.
Hinamatsuri traces its origins to an ancient Japanese custom called hina-nagashi (雛流し, lit. "doll floating"), in which straw hina dolls are set afloat on a boat and sent down a river to the sea, supposedly taking troubles or bad spirits with them. This Japanese holiday is dedicated to girls and their families' hopes for a bright and happy future. As a small child, I used to think that Japan's Girls' Day (or Dolls' Day)—Hinamatsuri (ひな祭りor 雛祭り)—was actually called 'Princess Day,' as the Japanese word for doll, hina (雛) sounds similar to princess, hime. Hinamatsuri, the name of the celebration in Japan, is marked by families displaying a set of hina dolls in the house and serving special food delicacies that are ceremonially beautiful and delicious. The name Chirashizushi comes from the word Chirashi which literally means scattered.
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