Hina Dolls Made with Inari Sushi

• 3 slice Aburaage
• 120 ml Dashi stock
• 3/5 tbsp Mirin
• 2 2/5 tbsp Raw cane sugar or castor sugar
• 1 1/5 tbsp Soy sauce
• 350 grams Uncooked white rice
• 180 ml Water
• 1/2 tbsp Sake
• 1 five 2 1/2 cm pieces Kombu for dashi stock
• 2 tbsp Vinegar
• 1 tbsp Sugar
• 1/2 tsp Salt
• 1 tbsp White sesame seeds
• 2 Quail eggs
• 1/4 of a sheet Nori seaweed
• 1 dash Cucumber
• 1 dash Carrot
• 1 dash Black sesame seeds, ketchup

1. Roll a chopstick over the aburaage to loosen the layers.
2. Briefly soak the aburaage in boiling water for 10 seconds (the photo shows 5 aburaage sheets).
3. Pat dry between paper towels.
4. Cut each piece into half diagonally.
5. Add the ingredients into the pot and simmer.
6. Add the Step 3 aburaage and spoon over the simmering liquid over low heat for 5 minutes.
7. Let cool.
8. Make the sushi vinegar: Combine the ingredients in a heatproof container and microwave for 30 seconds (or so) at 500 W. Mix to dissolve the sugar.
9. Make the sushi rice: Rinse the rice and cook in a rice cooker with water, sake and kombu.
10. When the rice is cooked, transfer to a bowl.
11. Add the combined sushi vinegar and mix well using a cutting motion.
12. Fan with a fan to cool.
13. Cover the rice with a wrung out moistened kitchen towel.
14. Mix in the sesame seeds.
15. Let's prepare the hina doll: Cut out the various parts from nori seaweed, cucumber and carrot as shown in the photo.
16. Lightly drain the simmered aburaage from Step 4, and cut the corners as shown in the photo.
17. Chop up the cut off corners and mix in to the sushi rice.
18. Form about 60 g of the sushi rice into a fat triangular ball, and wrap with the aburaage from Step 10.
19. Pull the long piece in the back under the rice and tuck the end in under the aburaage in the front.
20. Stick the nori seaweed 'hair' on a boiled quail egg, and stick on the cucumber and carrot parts.
21. Make small holes in the egg where the eyes should go, and stick in the black sesame seeds.
22. Paint the cheeks with ketchup.
23. This is the back view.

aburaage, stock, mirin, cane sugar, soy sauce, white rice, water, sake, stock, vinegar, sugar, salt, white sesame seeds, eggs, cucumber, carrot, black sesame seeds

Taken from cookpad.com/us/recipes/168694-hina-dolls-made-with-inari-sushi (may not work)