Umami Rice Balls (Chimaki)
With umami-packed scallops and fava beans.
30 minutes+
358kcal
0.4g
- Nutrition facts are for one serving.
- Time to soak the mochi rice is not included in the cooking time.
Ingredients(Servings: 4)
- ※ Chimaki are glutinous rice balls or dumplings wrapped in bamboo leaves.
- ※1Mochi rice (mochigome) is short-grain glutinous rice.
Directions
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About 30 minutes prior to cooking, wash and drain the mochi rice and place into a rice cooker.
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Quarter the scallops, remove skins from the fava beans and split into halves. Julienne the ginger.
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Place (A) into a pot and bring to a boil, add the fava beans and the ginger (2) and allow to simmer.
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Once the pot boils again, add in the scallops and allow to simmer for 1 minute, then allow to cool.
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Strain the broth from (4). If less than enough for 2 cups of rice (360 cc or 12.2 fl. oz.), increase to required volume by adding water. Pour the broth into the rice maker and cook the rice as usual.
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Once cooked, mix in the fava beans and scallops. Form into balls and wrap with bamboo leaves, if on hand.
Cooking Basics
Broad beans - peeling off the thin skin
Start peeling the thin skin from the blackish-colored line on these beans to make the process easier.
Ginger - julienned
Peel the skin of the ginger, and cut thinly, gradually sliding and stacking the slices. Then thinly slice from end to end.
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