Hello everybody, it is Brad, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, japanese doll festival bear hina dolls for bento. One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Also known as the Doll's Festival, the celebration is marked by families displaying a set of hina dolls in the house. These dolls are dressed in Japanese traditional costumes from the imperial court of the Heian Period and displayed hierarchically on tiered platforms.. served in another way loved by Japanese: in bento boxes. This is a bento for the Japanese Doll Festival. Please use ingredients you have on hand to make these.
Japanese Doll Festival Bear Hina Dolls for Bento is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions daily. Japanese Doll Festival Bear Hina Dolls for Bento is something which I have loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.
To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook japanese doll festival bear hina dolls for bento using 7 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Japanese Doll Festival Bear Hina Dolls for Bento:
- Prepare 1 use as much (to taste) Hot cooked white rice
- Make ready 1 as much (to taste) ●Sauce like mentsuyu
- Prepare 1 Satsuma-age
- Get 1 Nori seaweed
- Prepare 1 Tri-color kamaboko
- Get 1 Ketchup
- Prepare 1 several short bits Long pasta (to hold the pieces together)
When I think of Hina Matsuri and its depiction in anime, the first series that comes to mind is the final episode of Hyouka. By the Edo-era, doll makers could be found in every major Japanese city. Dolls were displayed in homes and used in rituals. For example, it was believed that bad luck could be transferred from children into dolls and then cast out to sea or down a river.
Steps to make Japanese Doll Festival Bear Hina Dolls for Bento:
- Mix ● into the rice and wrap in plastic wrap, and shape into rounded rectangular rice balls. Layer on 2 rectangular pieces of nori seaweed, and wrap.
- Cut a notch into the bottom of the nori seaweed to make it easier to wrap up. Wrap in plastic cling wrap and set aside.
- Cut the tri-color kamaboko into 3 cm widths, and use the colored portions for Step 5 and 6.
- Mouth: Cut round circles out of the white portion of the kamaboko, cut out the mouth and nose from nori seaweed, and stick them on.
- Scepter, crown: Cut out shapes from the green portion of the kamaboko. Use the ear portion of a rabbit-head shaped cookie cutter to cut out the scepter.
- For the crown and formal folding fan: Cut the shapes out of the pink portion of the kamaboko. Use a flower cutter for the crown.
- Emperor: This is what all the facial features look like.
- Empress: Give it whatever expression you like.
- Stick the ears and headpieces on with pasta. Stick on the parts, and draw the cheeks with ketchup…
- And the bear hina dolls are done.
- The top photo shows bears made with white rice and kamaboko. I used snap peas to make the emperor and used sausage for the empress!
Dolls were displayed in homes and used in rituals. For example, it was believed that bad luck could be transferred from children into dolls and then cast out to sea or down a river. This ceremony, known as hina nagashi can still be seen in Japan today. Exquisite antique Japanese dolls for Hina Matsuri festival of Dolls. They look like they were made pre WWII in Kyoto, but I am not sure.
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