Doll's Day Bento with Inari Sushi Hina Dolls
Doll's Day Bento with Inari Sushi Hina Dolls

Hello everybody, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, doll's day bento with inari sushi hina dolls. One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Because it is the hina-matsuri season. On this day, ornate dolls are displayed in the family home to mark the beginning of spring and to wish good health and good fortune for all of the girls in the family. To celebrate Hinamatsuri, some parents host parties for their daughters and their friends to view their beautiful dolls and enjoy delicious foods together. In some rural areas of Japan, you can still find this custom, called hina-okuri or nagashi-bina, being carried out in which people float paper dolls down the rivers.

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To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook doll's day bento with inari sushi hina dolls using 10 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Doll's Day Bento with Inari Sushi Hina Dolls:
  1. Make ready 1 use as much (to taste) Hot cooked white rice
  2. Prepare 2 pieses Flavoured inari pouch
  3. Take 1 Sakura denbu
  4. Make ready 1 Black ground sesame seeds
  5. Get 1 stick Imitation crab sticks
  6. Take 1 Komatsuna
  7. Prepare 1 Nori seaweed
  8. Take 1 dash Sliced cheese
  9. Get 1 Ketchup
  10. Take 2 pieces Cute toothpicks

On this day, we set up hina dolls (hina-ningyo) since they are believed to protect girls from bad luck. Hishi Mochi (diamond shaped rice cake) is usually presented with hina dolls. Hishi Mochi commonly consists of three layers: pink, white, and green, from top to bottom. Hinamatsuri or Girl's Day in Japan is celebrated with special foods, such as chirashi sushi, clam soup, and strawberry daifuku.

Steps to make Doll's Day Bento with Inari Sushi Hina Dolls:
  1. Divide the cooked white rice into 4 equal sections. Mix sakura denbu into one of the divided rice. Mix black ground sesame seeds into another. Add some salt to the remaining rice if desired.
  2. Shape each rice into a ball.
  3. Fold half the height of the walls of the flavored inarizushi pouch inward.
  4. Fill one of the inarizushi pouches with a white rice ball and the black sesame seed rice ball. Fill the other pouch with the other white rice ball and the sakura denbu rice ball.
  5. Place cooked komatsuna on the sesame rice ball. Tear the red part of the imitation crab thinly and place it on top of the sakura denbu rice ball.
  6. Decorate each doll's head with a cute toothpick and "draw" the face with nori seaweed. Put a small amount of ketchup for the empress's cheek. Make a fan with the sliced cheese.

Hishi Mochi commonly consists of three layers: pink, white, and green, from top to bottom. Hinamatsuri or Girl's Day in Japan is celebrated with special foods, such as chirashi sushi, clam soup, and strawberry daifuku. In addition, it's a traditional dish to eat in the spring for Hina Masturi, or Girl's Day or the Doll Festival. The ingredients used in chirashi sushi are intentionally selected to align with this goal. Or sign in with one of these services.

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