Kid-Friendly Decorative Rice Balls for Cherry Blossom Viewing
Kid-Friendly Decorative Rice Balls for Cherry Blossom Viewing

Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, kid-friendly decorative rice balls for cherry blossom viewing. One of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Great recipe for Kid-Friendly Decorative Rice Balls for Cherry Blossom Viewing. I came up with this recipe to spice up a kid's bento lunch box. Kids love these rice balls since they taste good and look good with the imitation crab sticks and the carrot slice cherry blossom.

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To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook kid-friendly decorative rice balls for cherry blossom viewing using 5 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Kid-Friendly Decorative Rice Balls for Cherry Blossom Viewing:
  1. Get 1 enough to make 4 rice balls White cooked rice
  2. Prepare 2 cm Carrot
  3. Get 1 Broccolini
  4. Get 1 dash Rice ball seasoning
  5. Get 2 stick Imitation crab sticks

In modern-day context, hanami usually involves outdoor parties beneath the cherry blossom blooms in the day and at night (yozakura). Even though cherry blossoms are the main star, plum blossom viewing (umemi) still takes place in some areas and are particularly popular with the elderly. Pound the rice - Partially pound the cooked rice. Shape and fill the rice balls - Shape the pounded rice into balls and coat them with red bean paste.

Steps to make Kid-Friendly Decorative Rice Balls for Cherry Blossom Viewing:
  1. Thinly slice the carrot and cut out cherry blossoms using a cookie cutter.
  2. Blanch the broccolini.
  3. Add the rice, rice ball seasoning, shredded imitation crab sticks and boiled broccolini in a bowl, and mix with a spatula.
  4. On cling film, place a carrot cherry blossom, add 1/4 of rice on top and shape into a ball. Place it with the flower side facing up, and it's done.

The pink and white sweet dumplings consist of sweetened rice flour, and the green one has a mild earthy taste as it is mixed with yomogi (mugwort) grass. You can find pop-up food stalls that sell hanami dango during the cherry blossom season. Rice balls are good finger food, so I made a variety with different fillings: grilled salmon, umeboshi sour plum, Gohan Desu Yo! seaweed paste, kimchi, and plain furikake. Seasoned noodles, sliced ripe strawberries, tiny tangerines, beer and a big bottle of Onigoroshi sake rounded out our little feast. Hanami is a traditional Japanese custom spanning centuries and literally means "flower viewing" in Japanese.

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