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Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, ehou-maki (futomaki sushi) for setsubun. It is one of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

But there is another way of celebrating setsubun no hi, and that's with a big, long, uncut sushi roll called ehou-maki. I grew up in and around the Kanto region, which is the area around Tokyo, so I didn't know about ehou-maki （（恵方巻き）growing up, because it's a Kansai region (the area around Osaka and Kyoto) custom for setsubun no hi. Great recipe for Ehou-maki (Futomaki Sushi) for Setsubun.

Ehou-maki (Futomaki Sushi) for Setsubun is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. They are fine and they look wonderful. Ehou-maki (Futomaki Sushi) for Setsubun is something that I have loved my whole life.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook ehou-maki (futomaki sushi) for setsubun using 23 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Ehou-maki (Futomaki Sushi) for Setsubun:

1. Take [Others]
2. Take 1 Cucumber
3. Make ready 30 to 40 grams Cream cheese
4. Make ready 6 Crab sticks
5. Take 1 to 2 leaves Lettuce leaves
6. Get 1 tbsp Black sesame seeds
7. Get 2 whole sheets Nori seaweed
8. Take [Dashi-maki omelette]
9. Make ready 2 Eggs
10. Make ready 1 tbsp Sugar
11. Take 40 ml Japanese dashi stock
12. Take 1/2 tsp Soy sauce (usukuchi soy sauce if you have it)
13. Prepare [Sushi vinegar]
14. Make ready 2 and 1/2 tablespoons Sugar
15. Take 2 tbsp Vinegar
16. Make ready 1 tsp or less Salt (4 g)
17. Prepare [Dried bonito flakes with soy sauce]
18. Get 2 small packets of bonito flakes (3 grams each)
19. Prepare 2 tsp Soy sauce
20. Prepare [Sushi rice]
21. Get 270 ml Uncooked white rice
22. Prepare 1 Water (as needed)
23. Take 1 sheet (1 x 3 cm square) Kombu seaweed

Ehoumaki is a type of Futomaki which itself is just a thick sushi roll. Japanese people eat in a certain way for good luck for the new year, on Setsubun. Come on, it is nearly the Third of February, so make a huge sushi roll for good luck ! Eating mamemaki sushi (豆まき) is a well-known custom for most of Japanese on the day of Setsubun (節分), which is the day before the beginning of spring in Japan.

Instructions to make Ehou-maki (Futomaki Sushi) for Setsubun:

1. Wash the rice at least 30 minutes before cooking and drain in a sieve. Add a little less water than usual to the rice cooker and add the konbu seaweed. Press start to cook the rice. Remove the konbu after the rice is cooked and leave to stand for 15 minutes.
2. Put together the sushi vinegar ingredients in a heat proof dish and microwave for 20 seconds at 500 W to warm up. Stir the mixture with a spoon to dissolve the sugar and leave to cool.
3. Transfer the cooked rice to a large bowl or wooden sushi tub. Pour in the sushi vinegar, incorporate with the rice and sprinkle on black sesame seeds. Stir the rice quickly in a cutting motion and cool down by using a fan at the same time.
4. Prepare the fillings! While draining the rice in a sieve and cooking the rice you will need to prep the fillings.
5. [Dashi-maki omelette] Combine the ingredients well and heat vegetable oil in a tamagoyaki pan. Divide the egg mixture into several portions and pour portion by portion into the frying pan to make an omelet. After frying, leave to cool. Slice into long strips about 1 cm wide.
6. [Dried bonito flakes with soy sauce] Combine the ingredients.
7. Slice the cucumber into thick strips and sprinkle with salt (not listed) to remove water. Squeeze out excess water. Cut the cream cheese into 8 mm wide sticks. Take out the crab sticks from packaging. Wash the lettuce and drain well. Tear into bite sizes.
8. Let's roll the sushi! If using a bamboo sushi mat, place it in front of you with the outer side (green and flat) up. You don't want on the opposite side. Place the nori sheet with the shiny side down lengthwise onto the sushi mat.
9. Spread half of the sushi rice from Step 3 (about 250 g) on the centre of the nori sheet. Leave a 2-3 cm border as a joint at the edge of the nori sheet away from you and about 1 cm border at the edge in front of you. Moisten your hands with the blend of vinegar and water (refer to the notes) and spread out the rice to an even thickness.
10. Place the lettuce slightly below the centre of the rice and lay the cucumber, cream cheese, dried bonito flakes with soy sauce, omelet and crab sticks on top.
11. Press the filling gently and lift up the edge of the mat in front of you and roll up at once to stick both sides of the rice together. Adjust the shape of the sushi roll by pressing gently and evenly over the mat.
12. Pull the edge of the mat away from you and roll the sushi so both ends of the nori overlap together. Push back in any fillings that fall out of either end.
13. Every time you slice a sushi roll, moisten the blade of your knife with tea towel moistened with some vinegar-water or regular water.

For those residing in the Kansai area , however, eating ehoumaki (恵方巻き) might be preferred to complete their luck-welcoming ritual of the night. Setsubun is the firs day of spring. One of the way to celebrate is to face the direction of the good luck of that year (EHOU)and eat EHOU MAKI. Sushi (すし, 寿司, 鮨, pronounced or) is a Japanese dish of prepared vinegared rice (鮨飯, sushi-meshi), usually with some sugar and salt, accompanying a variety of ingredients (ネタ, neta), such as seafood, often raw, vegetables, and occasionally tropical fruits. Styles of sushi and its presentation vary widely, but the one key ingredient is "sushi rice", also referred to as shari.

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