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.

Houbazushi

Aichi

One piece of good harvest prayer necessary to a farmer

Houbazushi

When rice planting in June ended, it was farmer's custom to be thankful that safe rice planting has ended in "god in a rice field", wish for a good harvest in autumn and make Houbazushi.

Recipi of cuisin

for 4 persons

[ Sushi rice ]

  • Rice4gou（560g）
  • Vinegar80cc
  • Salttablespoon 1/2
  • Sugar50g

[ The material of the topping ]

  • leaf of bracken and Japanese pepper, bamboo shoot, dried gourd shaving, shiitake mushroom and carrot.

[ Broth ]

  • Sugar1/4
  • Soy sauce1/4
  • Soup stock soup1/2
  • Leaf of the one
  • Straw40-50
1.
A bract gets wet and keeps dirt by a washcloth.
2.
Sushi rice is made.
3.
I blow, cut brackens, leaves of SAN SHO, shiitake mushrooms and bamboo shoots, etc. into the size easy to eat and simmer respectively. I cut carrot into fine strips, simmer and prepare a topping of sushi.
4.
In the center if I'm ready for a topping, which opens a leaf of a bract, and is a leaf.2-3 kinds expands about cup of sushi rice into about 1 cm of thickness in a bowl lightly, and open, pile up and wrap a favorite topping on it, and half day gets up and makes the fragrance of the bract sink into rice.

Information provided by : AIchi folklore dish collection

Shushi

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