Hello everybody, it’s me, Dave, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, chikuwa flowers. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Chikuwa Flowers is one of the most favored of current trending meals in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. Chikuwa Flowers is something which I have loved my entire life. They are fine and they look fantastic.
To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have chikuwa flowers using 4 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Chikuwa Flowers:
- Prepare 1 Chikuwa
- Take 1 slice Shiso leaf
- Make ready 1 dash Shibazuke (pickled eggplant with red shiso leaf) - or umeboshi, mentaiko (spicy salted cod roe), etc.
- Get 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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