Ochazuke - Green Tea Rice Recipe

Ochazuke is rice in green tea with some salty toppings or pickled vegetables.  It is a very simple recipe that involves hardly any cooking.  Ochazuke is a “you make it at the table” kind of thing, so you probably won’t find it on the menu at restaurants.  Traditionally, if you tell your friends that you ate Ochazuke for lunch, you’re basically saying you didn’t have anything on hand to eat or didn’t want to cook.  Oops!

Ochazuke Recipe

Ingredients:
Japanese rice crackers
hot green tea
Steamed Rice
Salmon Flakes
thinly cut roasted seaweed
sesame seeds
wasabi
soy sauce

Instructions:

1. Put rice crackers in a plastic bag and smash them to coarse pieces. Prepare hot green tea.
2. Put rice in a rice bowl, top with cracker pieces, salmon flakes, seaweed, sesame seeds, and wasabi. Pour hot green tea over rice. Add a little soy sauce if you want.
3. Tada! There you have it!

This is a very simple dish to make at home and particularly good when you don’t have much appetite or sick.  There is nothing hard to digest in the ingredients.  It can be great to eat after holidays, parties, and obviously when you're sick.  Let your tummy have a rest, and have some mild, tasty and simple Ochazuke!