Recipe: Delicious Hina Dolls Made with Inari Sushi

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Some people get fancy with round temari sushi.

Sushi's a good choice, as inarizushi and chirashizushi are commonly eaten on Hina Matsuri too.

A 'temari' is an embroidered ball sewn from bits of old kimonos, and the sushi's made to look just as pretty.

You can cook Hina Dolls Made with Inari Sushi using 19 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Hina Dolls Made with Inari Sushi

1. Prepare 3 slice of Aburaage.

2. Prepare 120 ml of ● Dashi stock.

3. Prepare 3/5 tbsp of ● Mirin.

4. You need 2 2/5 tbsp of ● Raw cane sugar or castor sugar.

5. It’s 1 1/5 tbsp of ● Soy sauce.

6. You need 350 grams of Uncooked white rice.

7. It’s 180 ml of Water.

8. You need 1/2 tbsp of Sake.

9. You need 1 of five 2 1/2 cm pieces Kombu for dashi stock.

10. It’s 2 tbsp of ◆ Vinegar.

11. Prepare 1 tbsp of ◆ Sugar.

12. You need 1/2 tsp of ◆ Salt.

13. It’s 1 tbsp of White sesame seeds.

14. You need of To decorate:.

15. Prepare 2 of Quail eggs.

16. Prepare 1/4 of of a sheet Nori seaweed.

17. You need 1 dash of Cucumber.

18. You need 1 dash of Carrot.

19. Prepare 1 dash of Black sesame seeds, ketchup.

They're carefully decorated with strands of nori, veggies cut into flower shapes.

Hinamatsuri, the name of the celebration in Japan, is marked by families displaying a set of hina dolls in the house and serving special food delicacies that are ceremonially beautiful and delicious.

Hinamatsuri, also called Doll festival or Girl's festival is a festival when people pray for health, growth, and happiness of girls.

There are also some other customs.

Hina Dolls Made with Inari Sushi instructions

1. Roll a chopstick over the aburaage to loosen the layers..

2. Briefly soak the aburaage in boiling water for 10 seconds (the photo shows 5 aburaage sheets)..

3. Pat dry between paper towels. Cut each piece into half diagonally..

4. Add the ● ingredients into the pot and simmer. Add the Step 3 aburaage and spoon over the simmering liquid over low heat for 5 minutes. Let cool..

5. Make the sushi vinegar: Combine the ◆ ingredients in a heatproof container and microwave for 30 seconds (or so) at 500 W. Mix to dissolve the sugar..

6. Make the sushi rice: Rinse the rice and cook in a rice cooker with water, sake and kombu..

7. When the rice is cooked, transfer to a bowl. Add the combined sushi vinegar and mix well using a cutting motion. Fan with a fan to cool..

8. Cover the rice with a wrung out moistened kitchen towel. Mix in the sesame seeds..

9. Lets prepare the hina doll: Cut out the various parts from nori seaweed, cucumber and carrot as shown in the photo..

10. Lightly drain the simmered aburaage from Step 4, and cut the corners as shown in the photo. Chop up the cut off corners and mix in to the sushi rice..

11. Form about 60 g of the sushi rice into a fat triangular ball, and wrap with the aburaage from Step 10..

12. Pull the long piece in the back under the rice and tuck the end in under the aburaage in the front..

13. Stick the nori seaweed hair' on a boiled quail egg, and stick on the cucumber and carrot parts. Make small holes in the egg where the eyes should go, and stick in the black sesame seeds. Paint the cheeks with ketchup..

14. This is the back view..

One of them is "Nagashi Bina" in which people throw dolls made from paper into the river in order to get bad luck away.

Another one displaying Hina dolls on tiered pyramid-shaped stands.

I used to set them with peach flower and sing a Hina song.

My mother prepared Hina doll sushi.

Now, I live in Kyoto alone so I can't set up dolls, but I made Hina doll sushi remembering the way of my mother had done.