Rice in Green Tea with Salmon

Name: Rice in Green Tea with Salmon (Ocha-zuke)
Yield: Serves four
Cuisine: Japanese
Ingredients: ¼ nori sheet; 150 g/5 oz salmon fillet; 15 ml/1 tbsp sencha leaves; 5 ml/1 tsp wasabi paste from a tube, or 5 ml/1 tsp wasabi powder mixed with 1.5 ml/¼ tsp water (optional); 250 g/9 oz/1¼ cups Japanese short grain rice cooked using 350 ml/12 fl oz/1½ cups water; salt; 20 ml/4 tsp shoyu

Ocha-zuke

Preparation info

Serves
four

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Japanese Cookbook

By Emi Kazuko and Yasuko Fukuoka

Published 2024

About

A fast food, Ocha-zuke is a common Japanese snack to have after drinks and nibbles. In the Kyoto region, offering this dish to guests used to be a polite way of saying the party was over. The guests were expected to decline the offer and leave immediately!

Ingredients

150 g/5 oz salmon fillet
¼ nori sheet
250

Asia
Japan
Kyoto
Snack
Fish course
Pescatarian

Method

Thoroughly salt the salmon fillet and leave for 30 minutes. If the salmon fillet is thicker than 2.5cm/1in, slice it in half and salt both halves.
Wipe the salt off the salmon with kitchen paper and grill (broil) the fish under a preheated grill (broiler) for about 5 minutes until cooked through. Remove the skin and any bones, then roughly flake the salmon with