Fresh chocolate is made with chocolate and fresh cream. It is so simple that it is the most popular handmade chocolate in Japan. Mostly, it is flavored with rum but in my recipe I used Sake! hehe I hope you like this idea but of course you can skip sake ;P
Directions:
1. Melt the chocolate and heavy cream in a double boiler over hot water (60C/140F).
2. Remove from the hot water, using a whisk or spatula, mix until creamy.
3. If you like, add butter and sake (any liqueur) and mix lightly.
4. Line the truffle box (or origami box) with a plastic wrap and fill the chocolate mixture. Smooth the surface and put in a fridge until firm (about an hour or two).
5. When the chocolate got firm, cut into small square pieces, dust with cocoa powder, and put them back in a box lined with a bento cup (or a muffin cup is okay).
Ginjo Sake means premium sake. Ginjo is the grade. Junmai Ginjo is the highest grade! Don't use sake for cooking. It is non premium sake with some salt added.
Please see the video for the origami box instructions.
I named it "Lucky Eho-Maki" because I used seven lucky ingredients including lucky colors such as red and yellow: smoked salmon, corn, onion, baby leaves, avocado, mustard mayonnaise, and cracked black pepper.
February 3rd is Setsubun. It is the day before the beginning of Risshun (spring season). On Setsubun, we cleanse away all the evil of the former year and drive away disease-bringing evil spirits for the year to come. This special ritual is called Mamemaki (bean scattering). On this day at night, it is customary now to eat uncut maki-zushi called Eho-Maki ("lucky direction roll") while facing the yearly lucky compass direction, determined by the zodiac symbol of that year.
The lucky direction of the year 2012 is north-northwest. If you eat Eho-Maki facing in that direction it will bring you a good luck. But just remember you have to close your eyes and eat all without speaking! You can speak after you complete it ;)
Ingredients:
300g (10.5oz.) cooked Japanese rice (short-grain rice)
2 tbsp Sushisu (seasoning for sushi rice)
1 nori sheet
A
* cracked black pepper
* smoked salmon
* whole kernel corn
* onion slices
* baby leaves
* avocado slices
* mustard mayonnaise
Directions:
1. Place cooked Japanese rice in a bowl. Add Sushisu while the rice is hot and slice through rice using rice paddle to separate the grains.
2. Cover the bamboo sushi-roll mat with plastic wrap. Place nori sheet on the bamboo sushi-roll mat, shiny side down.
3. Spread sushi rice (1.) on the nori sheet using your finger tips, little bit moistened with water.
4. Place A lengthwise on the nori sheet.
5. Roll the bamboo mat forward, hold the line of ingredients firmly with your fingers, make sure all the ingredients are pressed in, roll it completely, and gently press the mat around the roll to shape it (do not squeeze).
You want to eat uncut sushi roll, so don't cut it. You can of course make it smaller!!!
