Hey everyone, it is John, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, chirashizushi (scattered sushi). One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Chirashizushi (Scattered Sushi) is one of the most popular of recent trending foods in the world. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions every day. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Chirashizushi (Scattered Sushi) is something that I have loved my entire life.
This recipe for Japanese chirashizushi, known as scattered sushi, is served on plates or in bowls with colorful toppings. It's often cooked for celebrating special occasions, such as festivals, birthdays, and so on. Don't be limited by the toppings suggested here.
To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook chirashizushi (scattered sushi) using 12 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Chirashizushi (Scattered Sushi):
- Make ready 4 cups vinegared sushi rice → https://cookpad.com/us/recipes/250450-vinegared-sushi-rice
- Take 2 shiitake mushrooms (soak them in water for more than 1 hour.)
- Get 1/2 carrot (peel and cut into thin sticks)
- Prepare 1 abura-age (deep-fried tofu)
- Take 2 eggs for kinshi-tamago (shredded thin omelette for topping)
- Get 1 bunch spinach (trimmed and blanched in boiling water and cut into 3 cm for topping)
- Take 2 Tbsp red pickled ginger (for topping)
- Prepare 1 Tbsp toasted sesame seeds
- Get 280 ml dashi (use the soaking liquid from shiitake mushrooms) *
- Get 40 ml soy sauce *
- Get 40 ml mirin *
- Get 30-40 g sugar, to taste *
Most of you probably know Chirashizushi (ちらし寿司, literally "scattered sushi") as a large bowl of sushi rice topped with slices of sashimi. Indeed, it's one of my favorite dishes to order at a sushi restaurant when I'm dining alone, because I can get a taste of everything, in a quick, relatively inexpensive bowl. It is a popular party-style presentation of sushi rice, usually served family style in a large bowl or platter. Choose a good mixture of colors and textures.
Instructions to make Chirashizushi (Scattered Sushi):
- Remove stems of shiitake mushrooms and slice thinly. Cut aburaage into short strips.
- Put shiitake mushrooms, carrot, abura-age, and the * ingredients and bring to a simmer over medium heat, then lower the heat, and continue to simmer until the liquid is almost gone. Let them cool.
- Put vinegared sushi rice, simmered vegetables into a (wooden sushi) bowl and mix together.
- Top with kinshi-tamago, pickled ginger, spinach, sesame to finish.
Chirashizushi or scattered sushi, because of the way it is presented. This type of sushi is served in bowl piled with sushi rice and cover with scattered toppings such as sashimi. It really doesn't matter what kind of toppings you cover your rice with, but the vinegared rice is always the base for chirashizushi and is the one ingredient you can't replace. In my home town of Yamanashi, we celebrate Hinamatsuri in April, we're a little later than the rest of Japan. In my home town of Yamanashi, we celebrate Hinamatsuri in April, we're a little later than the rest of Japan.
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