The history, culture, and lifestyles of the area are mixed and condensed in one plate of a local dish that has been passed for generations in mountain and fishing villages throughout Japan. We will introduce various unknown local dishes, also known as the soul food of the Japanese people.

Hatsuumadango

Toyama

The first day of horse in February dumpling

Hatsuumadango

Dumpling shaped like "the eyebrows" of the purpose I'll offer at a god on a day of the first horse in February. To be shaped like "the eyebrows" derives from silkworm raising's being popular in this area before. I put it in soup and thick bean-meal soup and eat, and I bake it, season it with soy sauce and eat, and, present the how to enjoy oneself is various.

Recipi of cuisin

for ４ persons

  • Sweet rice flour2 cup
  • Buckwheat flour2 cup
  • Floura little

[ Seasoning ]

  • Soybean floursuitable
  • Sugarsuitable.
  • Saltsuitable.
1.
Sweet rice flour is put in a ball, hot water is poured a little and it's kneaded in the hardness like the earlobe. I tear up that small and give the form of a cocoon (the eyebrows).
2.
I give the form of a cocoon to buckwheat flour and flour like the shuffle(1).
3.
(1) and(2) are boiled for enough hot water in a rather big pot, and if I'm floating, it's given to a basket.
4.
I mix 4.A in the favorite sweetness, put it on(3) and eat.

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