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Scattered Stars - Milky Way Chirashi Sushi - Recipe Video

A simple and easy to understand recipe video shows how to make Scattered Stars - Milky Way Chirashi Sushi .
This is a milky way chirashi sushi with glittering stars of cheese and okra. This dish is perfect for the dinner table on Star Festival (Tanabata) Day (see this page for more info). Sushi rice made with homemade sushi vinegar is also easy and nice, so you should definitely give it a try!

Cook time

30 minutes

Ingredients
4 servings

  • Sushi Rice
  • Rice
    800 g
  • (A)Vinegar
    3 tbsp
  • (A)Sugar
    2 tbsp
  • (A)Salt
    1 tsp
  • Sub Ingredients
  • Salmon
    300 g
  • Shredded egg omelet (Kinshi tamago)
    100 g
  • Okra
    6
  • Salt
    1 three finger pinch
  • Radish
    4
  • Chopped vegetables pickled with red shiso leaves (Shibazuke)
    15 g
  • Sesame oil
    1 tsp
  • Garnish
  • Sliced cheese
    1 sheets
  • Sliced ​​cheddar cheese
    1 sheets

How to make

  1. Prepare. Damp sushi rice wooden bucket with water.
  2. 1. Put ingredient (A) in a bowl and mix well.
  3. 2. Make sushi rice. Pour Step 1 evenly into the sushi rice wooden bucket with rice in it, and mix with a rice scoop. When the rice is blended well, swing the hand fan and mix it further like in a slicing motino. When it becomes glossy, cover it with a damp cloth.
  4. 3. Finely slice the radishes thinly, chop vegetables pickled with red shiso leaves (shibazuke) into a bowl. Add the sesame oil and mix well.
  5. 4. Sprinkle salt on the okra and roll it on a chopping board. Rinse under running water and drain. Cut off the stem and calyx to make a 0.2-inch wide cut into round slices. Place in a heat-resistant container, cover with plastic wrap, and heat in a 600 W microwave oven for 1 minute, then cool it down.
  6. 5. Punch the sliced cheese and sliced cheddar cheese into star shapes.
  7. 6. Cut salmon into strips.
  8. 7. Arrange on Step 2, from the left, in the order of shredded egg omelet (kinshi tamago), Step 6, and Step 3 like a river, then cover the border with Step 4. Sprinkle Step 5 and it's ready to serve.

Tips for cooking

In Step 1, by mixing sushi vinegar after sugar and salt are dissolved thoroughly into the rice, you can get evenly seasoned sushi rice. We use cheese that can be eaten without heating. Please be aware that some cheeses need to be heated. Please add soy sauce if you like