Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, chikuwa flowers. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Chikuwa Flowers is one of the most popular of recent trending meals on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. They are nice and they look fantastic. Chikuwa Flowers is something which I’ve loved my whole life.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook chikuwa flowers using 4 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Chikuwa Flowers:
- Take 1 Chikuwa
- Make ready 1 slice Shiso leaf
- Take 1 dash Shibazuke (pickled eggplant with red shiso leaf) - or umeboshi, mentaiko (spicy salted cod roe), etc.
- Prepare 5 to 6 A toothpick or bento pick
Instructions to make Chikuwa Flowers:
- Cut the chikuwa open lengthwise. Hold it flat and make evenly spaced crisscross cuts all along the inside. (Be careful not to cut too deep.)
- Flip the cut chikuwa piece over, line with a shiso leaf, and put on the filling of your choice close to the edge near you.
- Roll it up. (The edges will bend the other way so hold them down while rolling evenly.)
- Secure the rolled up end with 5 to 6 toothpicks or bento picks spaced evenly.
- Cut in between the picks. You have rolled up colorful chikuwa flowers.
- You can easily make 5 to 6 flowers out of 1 chikuwa stick. Watch out for your salt intake though.
- I put them in my oldest son's school outing bento.
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