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What is OCHAZUKE?

 

This traditional Japanese dish is easy to prepare and is perfect as a light lunch or a snack.

お茶漬け[Ochazuke] is a simple rice dish usually eaten after a main meal or as a small snack to keep you going between meals.

Moreover, the Japanese like to eat Ochazuke after they drink alcohol.

The dish is easy to make and provides a way to use leftover rice as a quick snack.

As the name suggests, the dish consists of お茶・緑茶[ocha, ryokucha] (Japanese green tea) poured over rice(gohan).

Ochazuke is a simple Japanese dish made by pouring green tea, dashi, or hot water over cooked rice, usually with savoury toppings.

Common toppings include漬物[tsukemono], 梅干し[umeboshi], 海苔[nori] (seaweed), あられ[arare], ゴマ[sesame seeds], たらこ[tarako], 明太子[mentaiko](salted and marinated Alaska pollock roe), 鮭[salted salmon], 塩辛[shiokara ](pickled seafood) and わさび[wasabi].

梅干し(うめぼし):Umeboshi	海苔(のり):Nori	あられ:Arare
白ごま:White sesame	たらこ:Tarako	明太子:Mentaiko
鮭(さけ):Sake	塩辛:Shiokara	わさび:Wasabi

 

 

The photograph of the right side is salmon ochazuke with salt salmon flakes, nori, and arare.

This is very popular Ochazuke in Japan .

 

 

 

Origin of OCHAZUKE

Ochazuke first became popular in the Heian period, and not tea but hot water was used for Ochazuke in the Heian period.

Present Japan's rice cooker has the function to keep rice warm after rice is cooked.
It is at 1965 that Japan's rice cooker that had the heat insulation function was developed.

Therefore, the tool to keep rice warm did not exist at the Heian period(794-1191).
Ochazuke is Japanese people's wisdom at the Heian era to eat warm rice.

This is a reason with the custom of eating meal on which they poured the hot water.

And, this was called "湯漬け[yuzuke]" at that time.
Beginning in the 江戸[Edo(1603-1868)] period, tea was often used instead.
Boiled rice only of pouring hot water ; there is no saltiness in it.
Therefore, people in Edo period put food with strong saltiness and ate YUZUKE.

They are 漬物[tukemono], the fishes, and roes.
And it is present very ochazuke.

 

How to make salmon ochazuke

I teach you how to make easiest Ochazuke.

鮭茶漬け[sake-chazuke](Salmon Ochazuke)

<RECIPE INGREDIENTS>:

• Some rice;hot rice and cold rice, both are OK.
• Leftover cooked salmon or 1/2 can salmon
• Green tea, or tea that you like.
• Nori

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<DIRECTIONS>:

1. Scoop some rice in a bowl.
2. Put salmon toppings on rice.
3. Pour Hot tea over ricel.
4. Put nori toppings on rice.
5. Eat, please.

 

How to eat Ochazuke

Bolt down your ochazuke.
You had better eat the spoon though people in Japan eat ochazuke with chopsticks.
It is easy to eat Ochazuke very much when eating with a spoon.

FinFinally, please look at the television commercial of instant Ochazuke of Japan.

 

Hararie