Hey everyone, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, chikuwa flowers. One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
My mother used to always put these in her osechi (New Year's feast food) as well as in sports festival bentos. Take care not to cut the chikuwa apart when opening them up and making cuts in them. When making the cuts and rolling the chikuwa, it tends to want to. Chikuwa (竹輪) is a Japanese jelly-like food product made from ingredients such as fish surimi, salt, sugar, starch, monosodium glutamate and egg white.
Chikuwa Flowers is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions every day. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Chikuwa Flowers is something which I’ve loved my whole life.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have chikuwa flowers using 4 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Chikuwa Flowers:
- Take 1 Chikuwa
- Prepare 1 slice Shiso leaf
- Get 1 dash Shibazuke (pickled eggplant with red shiso leaf) - or umeboshi, mentaiko (spicy salted cod roe), etc.
- Take 5 to 6 A toothpick or bento pick
We also export surimi, soybeans and other food ingredients, as well as fruits and vegetables to Japan and other countries. Chikuwa is a type of processed seafood product that always comes in a tube shape, and is sometimes called a Japanese fish tube. This fishcake has a rubbery texture and a salty, fishy flavor. The word chikuwa means bamboo ring, which is what the product resembles.
Steps to make Chikuwa Flowers:
- Cut the chikuwa open lengthwise. Hold it flat and make evenly spaced crisscross cuts all along the inside. (Be careful not to cut too deep.)
- Flip the cut chikuwa piece over, line with a shiso leaf, and put on the filling of your choice close to the edge near you.
- Roll it up. (The edges will bend the other way so hold them down while rolling evenly.)
- Secure the rolled up end with 5 to 6 toothpicks or bento picks spaced evenly.
- Cut in between the picks. You have rolled up colorful chikuwa flowers.
- You can easily make 5 to 6 flowers out of 1 chikuwa stick. Watch out for your salt intake though.
- I put them in my oldest son's school outing bento.
This fishcake has a rubbery texture and a salty, fishy flavor. The word chikuwa means bamboo ring, which is what the product resembles. It can be eaten as a snack on its own or used in various soup and stir-fry recipes. My daughter said those with incisions around the holes (flowers) are easier to stuff the. Chikuwa is a Japanese fish cake made of surimi, salt, starch, and egg white.
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