Hey everyone, it is me again, Dan, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, chikuwa flowers. It is one of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Chikuwa Flowers is one of the most popular of current trending meals in the world. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions every day. Chikuwa Flowers is something which I have loved my entire life. They are fine and they look fantastic.
Chikuwa Flower Rollups I came up with this recipe as a drinking appetizer that'll still delicious even if made in advance. When you cut the ham into round strips, if you cut them a bit wider than the chikuwa, the ham sticks out from the chikuwa like flowers and they look cute. My mother used to always put these in her osechi (New Year's feast food) as well as in sports festival bentos.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook chikuwa flowers using 4 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Chikuwa Flowers:
- Get 1 Chikuwa
- Get 1 slice Shiso leaf
- Prepare 1 dash Shibazuke (pickled eggplant with red shiso leaf) - or umeboshi, mentaiko (spicy salted cod roe), etc.
- Make ready 5 to 6 A toothpick or bento pick
Some fish sausages may break apart too easily. I used a fat fish sausage, but you can make this with thin ones. Insert roasted pasta into the bottom part of flower. Marinade with seasonings (*) in the heat resistant bowl.
Instructions 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.
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. You can buy frozen chikuwa at Japanese grocery stores or some Asian grocery stores. Cut the chikuwa into three pieces.
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