Food

Here are some recipes for some Japanese food.

Onigiri - Rice balls

4 cups steamed Japanese rice
1 tbsp white sesame seeds
2 sheets dried nori (seaweed)
1 slice of salmon
Salt to taste

Salt the salmon slice for 30min. Grill or fry the salmon slice until edges are a little burned. After the salmon cools, flake it into small pieces and set aside. Cut nori seaweed into a medium rectangular shape.

(need 8 of these.) Put warm Japanese rice in a large bowl and mix in the salmon flakes and sesame seeds well. Wet your hands in water so that the rice won't stick. Put a pinch of salt on your hands and grab a half cup of warm rice. Form the rice into a round or a triangle shape, by pressing lightly with your both palms. Wrap the rice ball with a sheet of nori.
* You don't have to wrap a rice ball with nori if you prefer.

Makes 8 rice balls.

Anko - Sweet azuki beans

1 cup azuki beans
10 cups water
1/3 cup sugar

Put 4 cups of water in a pan and add azuki beans. Put the pan on high heat and bring to boil. Stop the heat and drain the water. Put 6 cups of water in a pan and add the boiled azuki beans. Put the pan on low heat and simmer the beans for an hour until soften. Take out excess water from the pan and add sugar. Stir the azuki on low heat for a few minutes until thicken. Stop the heat.

*Makes 4 servings

Azuki Shiratama - Sweet dumplings

1 2/3 cup shiratama-ko (glutinous rice flour)
1/2 - 2/3 cup water
1 1/2 cup anko

Put shiratama-ko in a bowl. Add water slowly until the dough becomes as soft as earlobes. Knead the dough. Make small oval-shaped dumplings. Boil water in a large pan and add the dumplings. Boil the dumplings until they float.

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Remove the dumplings and cool in cold water. Drain the water and serve dumplings in individual plates and put anko (sweet azuki beans) on the top.

*Makes 4 servings