<i>Chakin</i>-<i>sushi</i>

Sushi rice mixture is wrapped in a bright yellow egg crêpe and tied at the top, like a small pouch. Make your original sushi rice mixture and surprise everyone at a party.

Ingredients (makes 14 pieces):
For Sushi Rice:

1 cup* cooked sushi rice (see here)
1-1/2 Tbsp. rice vinegar
1 Tbsp. sugar
1/4 tsp. salt

To Add to Sushi Rice:

2 medium dried shiitake mushrooms
1/2 cup water to soak shiitake (reserve)
2 tsp. sake (rice wine)
2 tsp. shoyu (soy sauce)
2 tsp. mirin (Japanese sweet rice wine)
1/3 tsp. sugar

3 oz. crab meat, precooked
2 tsp. white sesame seeds, roasted
a handfull momi-nori (hand crushed small pieces of nori seaweed)

For Egg Crêpe:

9 eggs
2 tsp. corn starch, mixed with 2 tsp. water
2 tsp. sugar
2 tsp. sake (rice wine)
1/4 tsp. salt

To Tie:

7 green onions

*1 cup raw rice, about 12 oz. cooked rice

Prepare sushi rice using the ingredients listed. For steps to making sushi rice, see here.

Prepare the ingredients to add to the sushi rice. Soak the shiitake mushroom in water for 30 minutes to an hour to reconstitute. Reserve the stock.

Slice the shiitake mushroom and cook in the reserved stock, sake, shoyu, mirin and sugar for 5 minutes or until most of the liquid has evaporated. Remove from heat and set aside.

When cooked shiitake mushroom cools down to room temperature, mix into prepared sushi rice with crab meat, sesame seeds, momi-nori and set aside.

Make the egg crêpes. In a large bowl, combine eggs and corn starch solution, sugar, sake and salt. Preheat nonstick frying pan on medium heat, ladle in egg mixture and make fourteen 7 inch egg crêpes. Stack on a plate with parchment paper between each crêpe.

Chakin-sushi