Tanabata The Milky Way Salad Chirashi Zushi
- 1400 grams Cooked rice
- 1 Kombu
- 1 tbsp Sake
- 20 Peeled prawns
- 1/2 Cucumber
- 1 Canned tuna
- 1/2 Carrot
- 1/4 Iceberg lettuce
- 3 tbsp Canned corn
- 7 Shiso leaves
- 4 Eggs
- 4 tsp Sugar
- 2 tsp Dashi soy sauce
- 1/3 bag Denbu - pink sweet semidried fish flakes
- 5 tbsp Sushinoko - sushi rice seasoning powder
- 1 tbsp Olive oil
- Thinly slice the carrot and microwave until soft.
- Cut into star shapes with a cookie cutter if you have one.
- I cut the carrot and cucumber into star shapes with a knife.
- Heat the rest of the carrot in a microwave until soft, chop finely, and mix with the ingredients.
- Rub with 1/2 teaspoon of salt (not included in the ingredients list) .
- Cook the rice with konbu and sake slightly harder than usual.
- After the rice is cooked, add the sushinoko seasoning and fan the rice to cool.
- Cook the peeled prawns in 200ml of boiled water with 1 teaspoon of salt and 1 tablespoon of sake (not included in the ingredients list).
- Mix the rice with chopped carrot, cucumber, corn, and iceberg lettuce.
- Squeeze out the excess water from the vegetables before mixing.
- Drain the peeled prawns well.
- Drain the oil from the canned tuna in a colander.
- Add to the rice and mix well.
- Add 1 tablespoon of olive oil and mix.
- Mix the beaten eggs with the seasoning and make thin omelets.
- Thinly slice the omelets.
- This will make the Milky Way in the sushi.
- Put the omelet Milky Way in the centre and sprinkle the denbu around.
- Place the julienned shiso leaves between the egg omelets and denbu.
- Arrange the star-shaped carrots and cucumbers.
rice, sake, prawns, cucumber, tuna, carrot, corn, leaves, eggs, sugar, soy sauce, denbu, olive oil
Taken from cookpad.com/us/recipes/155453-tanabata-the-milky-way-salad-chirashi-zushi (may not work)