Ochazuke (Chazuke) Topped with Crispy Genmaicha
27 Oct 2011 Leave a Comment
in Food, Recipes Tags: bubu arare, chazuke, food, furikake, genmaicha, ingredients, ochazuke, rice, tea
I don’t know about you, but Genmaicha (roasted rice Japanese tea) is a lot of fun to drink (easy drinking!) and a lot of fun to just nibble on, too, straight out of the bag (those crispy little rice bits are awesome). So while making ochazuke, I decided to try using the genmaicha in its crispy form as a topping, sort of like a caffeinated substitute for bubu arare (little rice crackers).
Okay.
Wow!
Good stuff!
So now my favourite version of Ochazuke is this (these ingredients just happened to be in my fridge this morning…they’re not authentically Japanese or anything like that…but it looks like people on the interwebs make Chazuke with pretty much any kind of topping – the common thing being that it’s tea poured over rice):
Steamed rice (can be leftover)
Brewed green tea (or oolong)
Diced cucumber
Bocconcini
Furikake
Genmaicha (dry)
Salt
1.) Steep tea.
2.) Heat up a bowl of leftover rice in microwave (and if you’re using cheese, add it to the rice so it gets all melty)
3.) Dice cucumber
4.) Add salt and cucmber to rice in bowl
5.) Pour tea over the rice
6.) Top the island of rice with furikake and genmaicha
7.) EAT!
If you manage to get the furikake and genmaicha to sit on top of the island of rice in the middle, they’ll stay nice and crispy until you decide to eat it. That genmaicha is really a nice addition! It’s got such a wonderful toasted rice flavour, and the tea leaves are crispy as well, so it makes a really nice topping.
This is actually so much better and cleaner tasting than the little packets of ochazuke topping that you just add to rice and pour boiling water over – those leave me all weird and MSG’d out.
No pictures with this post – you’ve got to make it yourself to try it out!
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