Hello everybody, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, sakura rice balls - great for cherry blossom viewing. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Great recipe for Sakura Rice Balls - Great for Cherry Blossom Viewing. I added daikon radish sprouts to make colorful rice balls, and I. Sakura onigiri (cherry blossom rice balls) Sakura rice balls need sakuracha (pickled Sakura) for fillings.
Sakura Rice Balls - Great for Cherry Blossom Viewing is one of the most well liked of current trending meals in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. Sakura Rice Balls - Great for Cherry Blossom Viewing is something which I have loved my entire life. They are nice and they look wonderful.
To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have sakura rice balls - great for cherry blossom viewing using 6 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Sakura Rice Balls - Great for Cherry Blossom Viewing:
- Prepare 180 ml Mochi Sticky Rice
- Make ready 45 ml White rice
- Make ready 225 ml Water
- Get 15 grams Pickled sakura blossoms
- Make ready 1/3 pack Daikon radish sprouts
- Make ready 1 dash Food colouring (red)
You can buy the pre-salted cherry blossoms in Japan from your local grocery store from about March-May. These rice balls recipe is also not an exception. Cherry Blossom Rice Balls are basically plain white rice balls and topped with salted cherry blossom preserve. Take freshly-cooked rice, and mold it with both hands into cylinders while it is still warm.
Steps to make Sakura Rice Balls - Great for Cherry Blossom Viewing:
- Wash the mochi sticky rice and white rice together. Add the water and red food coloring to turn the rice a pale pink. Soak the rice for 1-2 hours, then cook with the normal setting.
- Rinse the pickled sakura blossoms briefly and then soak in water for a short time. If you don't have food coloring, cook the rice with this water. It will give the rice a slightly pink color.
- Set aside 10 of the rinsed sakura blossoms. Combine the rest with the daikon radish sprouts and finely chop.
- Mix the chopped cherry blossoms and daikon radish sprouts with the cooked rice. Shape into small rice balls and top with the cherry blossoms you set aside in Step 3. Enjoy.
Then, press the salted cherry blossom on top lightly until they stick together. The cherry blossom (sakura) peaks for just a couple of weeks, so make sure you know when it will be blooming in your area. The Japanese tourist board's website posts the dates (in English) on which you can see the sakura throughout the country. As a general guide, the blooms appear first in the sub-tropical island of Okinawa in the south in mid-January; in Osaka and Kyoto in late March; and. It'll soon be springtime in Tokyo, and that can only mean one thing: it's hanami time.
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