My Mother’s Doll Sushi

Name: My Mother’s Doll Sushi
Cuisine: Japanese
Ingredients: 1 medium carrot, cut into ¼-inch cubes (about ⅓ cup); 1 teaspoon sugar; 1 teaspoon shoyu (soy sauce); 1 teaspoon shoyu (soy sauce); ¼ cup toasted white sesame seeds; ½ cup walnuts, toasted and chopped; ½ cup raisins; ¼ cup minced shiso (perilla) leaves or coriander; ¼ cup minced shiso (perilla) leaves or coriander; Ten 8-inch-diameter thin omelets with potato starch for cloaks; Five 1-inch-square thin carrot slices for fans; 5 small snow peas or string beans for ceremonial batons; 5 small snow peas or string beans for ceremonial batons; 5 small snow peas or string beans for ceremonial batons; 10 hard-boiled quail eggs, shelled, for heads; 1 tablespoon black sesame seeds for eyes; 1 small red beet for drawing lips and cheeks; 2 whole sheets nori for crowns and hair; 6 cups (lightly packed) prepared sushi rice

Hinamatsuri zushi

Preparation info

Makes
5
pairs of doll sushi (each pair consists of an emperor and an empress doll)

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Sushi Experience

By Hiroko Shimbo

Published 2006

About

Treat the girls in your life to this very special doll sushi and get them to help you make them.

Ingredients

1 medium carrot, cut into ¼-inch cubes (about ⅓ cup)
1 teaspoon sugar
1 teaspoon

Asia
Japan
Main course
Vegetarian

Method

Put the carrot cubes in a small saucepan with water to cover them by ½ inch, bring to a boil over medium heat, and cook for 1 minute. Add the sugar and soy sauce and cook for 1 minute more. Drain the carrot cubes in a colander and cool.

Line up all the ingredients—carrot cubes, white sesame seeds, walnuts, raisins, shiso leaves, omelets, carrot slices, snow peas, quail eggs, blac