Farmhouse Recipe Chirashi Sushi
- 450 grams cooked White rice
- 5 cm long piece Kombu
- 80 to 100 ml Sushi vinegar (*refer below)
- 2 Cooked kanpyo gourd strips (refer below)
- 1 Snap peas or mangetout (boiled in salted water and sliced thinly)
- 1 Shredded nori seaweed
- 100 grams Cooked and chopped bamboo shoots
- 50 grams Carrot
- 4 Dried shiitake mushrooms
- 200 ml Japanese dashi stock
- 1 1/2 tbsp Soy sauce, mirin
- 1/2 tbsp Sugar
- 6 Shrimp
- 100 grams Lotus root
- 3 Eggs (well beaten)
- 1 pinch Salt
- 1 tsp Katakuriko
- Preparation for A: Shred the carrots into 2 cm long strips.
- Discard the stiff roots of the hydrated shiitake mushrooms and chop thinly.
- Also chop the bamboo shoots in the same way.
- Put the prepped A and B in a pot and simmer until the liquid is reduced.
- Rest to cool.
- Chop the kampyo gourd strips thinly.
- Preparation for C: Briefly cook the shrimp in boiling water with a small amount of sake.
- Peel the shell and chop in half.
- Peel the skin off the lotus root and boil, then slice into quarter-rounds.
- Soak the prepped C into sushi vinegar while it's hot, and remove the shrimp after 10 minutes.
- (Leave the lotus roots to soak.)
- Cook rice combined with kombu seaweed with slightly less water than usual.
- When cooked, remove the seaweed.
- While the rice is hot, combine the sushi vinegar with lotus roots in Step 4 (with the shrimp removed).
- Mix everything together while cooling it off with a fan.
- Combine with the mixed ingredients in Step 2 and arrange on a dish.
- Make sure to mix lightly in cutting motions, while cooling it off with a fan.
- Try not to knead the grains together.
- Top with the shrimp (that were soaked in sushi vinegar and then removed), kinshi tamago, and peas to finish.
- Also top with shredded nori seaweed to your liking.
- Homemade Sushi Vinegar Very useful to have in stock.
- Cooked Kanpyo Gourd Strips These can be frozen for storage.
- They're great in this chirashi sushi.
- About the B ingredients: you can substitute the "200 ml of Japanese dashi stock + 1.5 tablespoon soy sauce and mirin" with "200 ml of water + 3 tablespoons of multi-purpose dashi soy sauce".
white rice, vinegar, peas, bamboo shoots, carrot, shiitake mushrooms, stock, soy sauce, sugar, shrimp, lotus root, eggs, salt, katakuriko
Taken from cookpad.com/us/recipes/159114-farmhouse-recipe-chirashi-sushi (may not work)