Chasuke – Asian Food Recipes

Recipe ingredients and directions:

I believe you’re describing Chazuke (also called Ocahzuke). The salmon

version is called Sake Chasuke (Sake meaning salmon, here, not rice wine).

There is also a rice-and-egg porridge called Zosui.

Chasuke #1 (serves 4)

3 cups leftover cooked rice

1 Tbsp white sesame seeds

1 sheet Asakusa Nori

1 slice salt-grilled salmon (Optional)

2-3 Tbsp chopped coriander

1/4 tsp wasabi

2 cups very hot, freshly brewed green tea

Divide the rice among four deep bowls. Dry roast sesame seeds in

dry skillet until golden, and crush them coarsely (in a suribachi,

or a blender or with a heavy knife) and sprinkle them over the

rice. Dry roast the nori by waving it over a gas or electric burner

for up to a minute; fold and tear the sheet into 20 small rectangles

and place 5 in each bowl of rice. If making sake chazuke, remove

skin and bones from the salmon and break it into little chunks;

divide it among the 4 bowls. Garnish each bowl with a little

coriander and a small dab of wasabe. Pour 1/2 cup of very hot tea

over each bowl and serve immediately.

Chasuke #2 (serves 1)

1 cup hot cooked rice

2 oz (60 grams) raw white fleshed fish

wasabi

1/2 sheet nori

1 cup hot Japanese green tea

Place rice in large bowl. Cut raw fish against the grain into

paper thin strips and arrange on top of rice. Put small mound of

wasabi atop fish. Toast nori by passing it over a flame; then cut

it or crumble it into shreds and sprinkle over fish and rice. Pour

hot tea into bowl. Serves immediately.

Category: Asian Recipes