Recipe of Favorite Chikuwa Flowers

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To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook Chikuwa Flowers using 4 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.

My mother used to always put these in her osechi (New Year's feast food) as well as in sports festival bentos. Take care not to cut the chikuwa apart when opening them up and making cuts in them. When making the cuts and rolling the chikuwa, it tends to want to bend over the other way, so hold it down firmly with 4 fingers to cut, and wrap while holding the edges. Recipe by Saradaaaa

Ingredients and spices that need to be Prepare to make Chikuwa Flowers:

1. 1 Chikuwa
2. 1 slice Shiso leaf
3. 1 dash Shibazuke (pickled eggplant with red shiso leaf) - or umeboshi, mentaiko (spicy salted cod roe), etc.
4. 5 to 6 A toothpick or bento pick

Instructions to make to make Chikuwa Flowers

1. Cut the chikuwa open lengthwise. Hold it flat and make evenly spaced crisscross cuts all along the inside. (Be careful not to cut too deep.)
2. Flip the cut chikuwa piece over, line with a shiso leaf, and put on the filling of your choice close to the edge near you.
3. Roll it up. (The edges will bend the other way so hold them down while rolling evenly.)
4. Secure the rolled up end with 5 to 6 toothpicks or bento picks spaced evenly.
5. Cut in between the picks. You have rolled up colorful chikuwa flowers.
6. You can easily make 5 to 6 flowers out of 1 chikuwa stick. Watch out for your salt intake though.
7. I put them in my oldest son's school outing bento.

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