A Scent of Spring! Sea Bream Sakura Rice
A Scent of Spring! Sea Bream Sakura Rice

Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, a scent of spring! sea bream sakura rice. One of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Great recipe for A Scent of Spring! Spring is coming, so I made some sakura rice. I gave it a subtle pink color by mixing in pickled plum, and added sea bream to make sakura rice.

A Scent of Spring! Sea Bream Sakura Rice is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods in the world. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions every day. They’re fine and they look fantastic. A Scent of Spring! Sea Bream Sakura Rice is something that I’ve loved my entire life.

To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook a scent of spring! sea bream sakura rice using 10 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make A Scent of Spring! Sea Bream Sakura Rice:
  1. Get Plain cooked rice
  2. Make ready Mochi sticky rice
  3. Get Kombu
  4. Get Salted pickled sakura flowers
  5. Get Sake
  6. Prepare Red vinegar
  7. Take Shio-koji (salt fermented rice malt)
  8. Take Umeboshi paste
  9. Take cut Sea Bream
  10. Make ready Snow peas etc.

In the meadows, aromatic herbs stand upright to the sky, nature is revealing its olfactory power. Spring in Japan can only mean one thing: the sakura are in bloom. But what is it that makes these flowers so universally loved by the Japanese? Learn more about the history of the cherry blossom, hanami flower viewing, and how the blooms became so important in Japan.

Steps to make A Scent of Spring! Sea Bream Sakura Rice:
  1. Combine the mochi rice and regular rice, pour into a strainer, and let sit for 30 minutes. Soak the sakura flowers in water for about 5 minutes to desalt them.
  2. Squeeze the water out of the desalted sakura flowers by hand. Set some aside for decoration, remove the stems, and finely chop. (We will be using the soaking water).
  3. Add the mochi rice, minced sakura, sakura soaking water, konbu seaweed, salted rice malt, sake, pickled plum pulp, red vinegar, and water into the rice cooker. Mix together, and cook as normal.
  4. Thinly slice the sea bream, sprinkle with a bit of sake, and steam in the microwave. Mix it into the cooked rice.
  5. Sprinkle with boiled snow peas like fallen sakura flowers, and it's done.
  6. This looks really pretty if you use a cookie cutter to shape the rice.

Sea bream is a lean flavorful fish, also known by its French name daurade or dorade (orata in Italian). It is often served in restaurants in the south of France, so here I paired it with ratatouille from that same region. Ratatouille is a vegetable dish using eggplant, zucchini, tomatoes and sometimes also bell. Sakura rice is a very simple and easy-to-make recipe with pickled sakura. When cooked with rice, the salt of the pickled sakura emphasizes the beautiful Sakura mochi is a rice cake made of sweet rice.

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