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Inarizushi

August 30, 2009 by Jennifer Che 4 Comments

Inarizushi and Onigiri

Inarizushi is part of a larger Japanese character based meal titled “Kyaraben on Steroids” featured in August’s Foodbuzz’s 24-24-24. Click here to see the entire meal.

Inarizushi is popular picnic food in Japan. It’s easy to carry, tasty, and healthy.

Ingredients:
Sushi rice
Inarizushi tofu skins

You can typically find inarizushi wrappers in Asian grocery stores. Here is a picture of the brand that I used.

Once you open the can, the tofu skins will look like flat squarish sheets. Gently take one out and carefully pry it open. It’s sort of like a pita pocket.

Fill with sushi rice and optionally sprinkle some sesame seeds on top.

To make the Totoro shaped sushi, fill with a little less rice than normal and fold down the upper portion. Make 2 small V-shaped cuts as ears. Cut black seaweed into small flat triangles for the belly and also cut out a small diamond for the nose. For his eye you can cut out kamaboko (Japanese fish cake) with a straw (similar to the Totoro rice in this post). Finally, use sesame seeds for eye balls. I find that it’s easier to handle these small pieces of seaweed and sesame seeds with some tweezers!

Totoro Inarizushi

For the sac, fill a tofu-skin halfway full of rice and then tie the top with a bit of scallion. The umbrella is just a small bit of cucumber with a toothpick.

Serve!

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Filed Under: Japanese, Kawaii (Cute), Recipe, Rice, Sushi, Vegan, Vegetarian

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Comments

  1. Jessica says

    September 2, 2009 at 10:03 am

    I love your animated concoctions! It reminds me of the days I used to spend my entire allowance at Sanrio!

    Reply
  2. isla says

    May 2, 2010 at 8:28 pm

    so lame….money

    Reply
  3. hmmfomtgal says

    July 1, 2011 at 10:33 pm

    how do u make doraemon?

    Reply
  4. jentinyurbankitchen says

    July 2, 2011 at 12:22 am

    I followed these instructions for making Doraemon:

    http://www.annathered.com/2009/03/10/how-to-make-doraemon-onigiri/

    Reply

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