Rice and Soup with Rapeseed Blossom

Rice and Soup with Rapeseed Blossom

This colorful tempura with great texture is a spring dish loved by Kyoto.

1,Rice with Rapeseed Blossom

Ingredients (for 4 people)

  • rapeseed blossoms … 100 g
  • Rice … 2 cups
  • White sesame seeds … 2 tablespoons
  • Sake … 1 tbsp
  • Salt … 1 teaspoon
  • Kelp … 10 cm
  • Salt … a bit

How to make

  1. Clean the rice, add sake, water, and kelp and cook for 30 minutes, add salt and cook it on fire. Remove kelp when water starts to boil.
  2. Boil the rapeseed blossoms in salt water and take out when cooked. Drain and dry the rapeseed blossom.
  3. Grind the sesame fragrant.
  4. Take the rice and mix the rapeseed blossoms and sesame paste.

 

2, Rapeseed blossom soup

Ingredients (for 4 people)

  • Rapeseed Blossom … 160 g
  • Soup stock … 4 cups
  • White miso … tbsp 4
  • Red miso … 1 tablespoon
  • Mochi … 4 pieces
  • Yuzu skin … a little

How to make

  1. Boil the rapeseed blossom in salted hot water and drain .
  2. Boil the soup stock, and melt the white miso and red miso into the soup.
  3. Put rice cake and rapeseed blossoms in the bowl and pour the miso soup.
  4. Add the slices of the yuzu to soup.