Easy Hinachirashi Recipe


It's a kind of chirashizushi for Japanese Girl's Day (hina doll festival) celebration. It's OK to use various toppings for this sushi. Be creative and make sushi appealing to kids.

Sushi Recipes
Ingredients:
3 cups sushi rice
8 dried shiitake mushrooms
1/2 large carrot
1 tsp sugar
2 tbsp soy sauce
2 tbsp mirin
2 eggs and 1 tsp sugar
2 tbsps sakura denbu (seasoned fish powder)
2 tbsps white sesame seeds
a half bunch of nabana (rape flowers) or green vegetables

Preparation:
Soak dried shiitake mushrooms in 3/4 cup of warm water. Cut carrots into thin flower-shaped pieces. Remove shiitake mushrooms from the water and slice them thinly. Put the water in a pan and heat on low heat. Simmer shiitake slices and carrot pieces in the pan. Add soy sauce, mirin, and sugar in the pan and simmer for 10-15 minutes. Whisk eggs with 1 tsp of sugar. Make fine scrambled eggs. Boil nabana in a pan and cool in cold water. Chop nabana finely. Prepare sushi rice and mix sesame seeds in the rice. Serve the rice on a large plate. Sprinkle simmered shiitake mushrooms over the rice. Sprinkle scrambled eggs, carrots, boiled nabana, and sakura denbu over the rice.
By Setsuko Yoshizuka

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