For a couple of lazy sisters wanting to just hang at home and watch movies, the supermarkets here provide hundreds of healthful, ready-made options for dinner. Seriously, if I lived here I'd probably never cook again. Who needs to when you can get just-made seaweed salads, dozens of pickled things, tempura, musubi and sashimi to take home?
The hit of this particular meal in the photo was the mixed grain rice (in the white bowl), which we prepared by adding a packaged mix of seventeen kinds of grains, seeds and beans. Included were quinoa, amaranth, sesame seeds, azuki - you name it. The cooked mixture had a pleasant grainy texture and complex, nutty flavor. This type of rice seems to have gained popularity recently and is called zakkokumai. Here's some more info on zakkokumai on this great Japanese food site, Just Hungry.
I'm bringing some packets of this grain/seed mix back to the States.
2 comments:
Aki, you have a way of stirring immediate and unrelenting interest in the food you describe, I am going to research on Zakkokumai right now :)...
Clara, did you go to that link in my post? The Just Hungry site gives really good info on zakkokumai and offers ways to make your own mixture. I want to try this at home too. It's such a satisfying dish, you can eat it by itself.
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