Sekihan 赤飯

History and Origins

"Red food" is often eaten on Hale Day in the whole country. In Hokkaido, there is a unique food culture, eating sweet-nutsed "red" rice. In non-Hokkaido areas, it's not sweet because it's put in beans and boiled with salt, but the Hokkaido's "red" is sweet. It is said that in the late 20s, the sweet beans 'red' comes from various sources. By the late 20s, the founder of the school's legal ophthalmography Academy and first president, Akiko Ekiko, "that busy mom can be easily made available." I was a working mother, so I thought, "It's hard to cook hard beans, but I'd like to feed you something that the kids enjoy." So I established a simple recipe that simply boils rice, mix sweet beans, mix them, and color them with red. The South Korean teacher, who is the leading eater of Hokkaido, gave talks all over the street. On the other hand, when I taught local mothers how to make sweet beans for "red" they told me that their children were very happy and were very popular in the first place. After that, it was introduced in newspapers and radio and other media, and it spread all over the road.

When It Is Eaten

It's eaten all year round to use annual rice and rice and sweet-nuts. Because it's easy, they're often cooked at home, and sometimes even serve at school. Like the custom of the country, it can be eaten as a dish for Hale Day, and it's a sweet meal, but it is often eaten with rice.

How It Is Eaten

Mix rice and rice with gravy, and add a little red to it, and cook it, and mix sweet natto in the cooked red. Then the heat of the freshly boiled "red" makes the sweet natto a little softer around it, and that part is especially sweet. In the recipe of the inventor's South Sensei, rice is mixed with rice at 1: 1, but the ratio is different. Also, families often add their own ovens.

Recipe — Serves 4

Ingredients

• 1.5 cups regular rice
• 1.5 cups glutinous rice
• 3 cups water
• 100 g sweetened beans
• 2/3 tsp salt
• 30 g pickled red ginger
• Mix: 1/2 tbsp black sesame seeds
• Mix: 2 tbsp salt
• a pinch red food coloring

Method

1. We mix rice, mix it up, wash it, dip it in water for about 30 minutes, and cut it out. Sweet beans are washed quickly and cut. If rice is too long for water, be careful.
2. Put water in the pan and put it on fire, mix salt and red, add rice, boil it in the middle fire for five minutes, then cook it with a weak fire for ten minutes, and then boil it when it is steamed.
3. I'll put the cooking and red rice on a bowl, I'll shake salt mixed with black pepper and I'll cut the finely cut red pepper.

More About Sekihan

Red rice is boiled by mixing rice with abalone and chicken. It is characterized by redish color because the azure and the sauerkraut colors are transferred to the juice and are absorbed by the rice.

Overview

(It is often used as a treat for Hale's day's meal, but in some areas it is used as a treat for bad things) Besides, the high nutritional value also makes cans and fres dredged objects popular and is used as emergency food. And often it is sold in convenience stores, supermarkets, and station stores as common food, such as "Red Food" and "Red Food" or "Singing Food" or "Singing Food" or "Singing Food" or "Single Food" or "Snap Food" or "Snap Foods" or "Snap Food" or "Sex" or "Sex"

The term "knitting" is common, but it is also called "kami" because it was put on the wife's head as the wife's word and applied to the word "kami" and kanji.

Until Meeki, red rice mixed with beans and other beans was distinguished from the steamed rice. But later, in some areas, the nicknames have become vague, and some areas still have red food left. Also, there are local differences as well as common red foods with beans and so on. There are different colors in Japan, and there are different ways to call them "sympathy" and so on.

In some places red rice uses chicken instead of beans. The longer the bean gets back into water, the more likely it will get to the "screw" that's going to break in an extensible way. In some places, such as the Kanto region, beans can be easily skinned and "contained" by a warrior and can use skin-hardy mustard instead of beans.

How to Eat

When you eat it, you place a salt on it, but if you cut or roast it, it's bad luck and you use it. I often eat at parties, but in some areas, not only are there celebrations, but also eat red food.

Nutrition Value

In contrast with the common white of the same mass, calories are about 1.2 - 1.5 times higher, but there are very high nutrients such as copper, protein and zinc. In particular, copper and protein are nearly twice the nutritional value of white food. Also, since there are few kinds of starchy amylose to use for eating rice, it is said that you have a good stomach.

The Origin of Reds

It has been said that red is more powerful than ancient paint. For example, in the mural painting of the grave, there is much sand in it, and in the story of the Japanese myth of the thunderous lightning and the sale of zinjio Sugishi, there is a legend of the story of the birth of the Japanese myth. And Shinto, based on rice belief, has been considered a very valuable food. (For this reason, it seems that in ancient times there was a custom to give to God a mixture of the red and red wine.) By then, as a gift, it is assumed that humans also ate red rice.

Customs

Today, there is a common custom of eating red food for good things such as festivals and birthday celebrations. However, by this time, the Edo - style book "The Fussus of the Soyuz" had already written on it as "Systemic Yulko - Chinese Noorara Eagle for the Unificational Rice" and had already learned how to cook red food. Although I don't know why they cook red food for the wrong reason, I also found that they cooked red food with the idea that they expected red to have a pernicious effect and with what is called "renewment." It's also possible that the fold of the bean may be associated with the "stabs." There are also theories that old-fashioned red rices have been turned over to good luck with the word play that was popular during the Edo period.

Where tradition and history have become clear, red food was used for sacrifices in at least the 12th century. Red rice has a strong religious significance, and there is the custom of using red food. There is a "responsive service" to the representative shrine of the Shinto shrine that still preaches this custom, as well as to the Shizuoka Prefecture temple of the shrine of the Shinto shrine of Kanagawa Prefecture. There is also a local tradition of "acquire sacrifice" based on a statement that the Eight Prince's castle was cut down by his fall when it fell.

Besides offering sacrifices, red rice has been identified as being used since the eighth century. The oldest tradition is to go to the Lake Water Festival of Lake Hakone at Hakone. It's the custom of carrying three-to-one red rices and wines on the boat and of sinking them at the bottom of the lake at the opposite side. Before this custom was performed, a young daughter was in attendance as a human sacrifice. As mentioned earlier, the Kabuki who saved it turned the boat into a habit of sinking three-and-a-half-a-half red rice and liquor into Lake Kanno. Or, an act of idolizing the dragon is carried on in the cherry pond of Shizuoka Prefecture, also known as "Dango." However, unlike Lake Sino, it is the subsoil that rises in the sky after a few days and is counted from that peculiar phenomenon as one of the seven wonders of the state or one of the stranges. In addition, there are reports that the daughter of a former beggar in the Red Pit of Gunma Prefecture Iseshima City, was drawn into the mountain and became a dragon god. The next day, as in the cherry pond, the red box of red food was empty.

Although the reason why they serve red food for the funeral is unknown, the theory is that the deceased has survived life in the wild and that the meaning of the journey and the celebration of the life of the great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather is involved. Or it's also related to the hare and sacrifices mentioned earlier.

In the old days, red food was served in the traditional dress and celebration of adults. Even if you are a low-level warrior, this practice until the late Edo is often seen in the notables of Eno Six and others. In the case of girls, some families have served red food in celebration of their first tide, their wedding ceremony, and so on, but today there are fewer families who practice this custom.

As you can see from the many customs mentioned above, red food has changed shape and is found in many parts of Japan.

Locality

Hokkaido

This custom has survived even part of the Aomori Prefecture that people in the south have emigrated. There are common red foods, such as beans and offerings, but there are times when you use sweet natto bean beans or gold-time beans. If you use sweet beans, they're not colored red, so they're used for red. (If you mix the sweet beans with the red food on top of the boil, or add them together, and then add them together, then the beans will melt.) The finished product is made with a slice or piece of red pepper, and the salt is added to it. The Hokkaido retailer is sold along with common red food in the yuzu corner of supermarkets and elsewhere. Also, sugar beans are sold at the convenience store.

Aomori Prefecture

It's a sweet taste of sugar.

Also, in the southern part of Aomori Prefecture, there is a native dish called "Creaking and Cooking" with sweet red food mixed with rice.

Akita Prefecture

It is common to use black mustard instead of rice.

I didn't want to have any broken beans in my mouth, so I used a hardy, hard-to-breast black offering. If you boil with hard beans, you'll have a slightly purple color.

Also, in the southern states of Sendai, Hijizawa, and Yuzawa, it is known to make very sweet red foods with large amounts of white sugar. In addition to red food, add lots of sugar to cooked rice, potato salad, and sushi. Many people eat tomatoes with sugar on them.

In addition, this phenomenon is limited to the same Akita Prefecture in the southern part of the state, and in the northern part of the state, including Akita City, and in the northern part of the province, such as the city of Eysian, and the city of Osama, there is a taste for regular, low - sugar red foods.

Tokyo

In Tokyo, slags are sometimes used instead of sea bass. The azuquis is used for boiling, for its skin is easily broken, and its torn skin is associated with cuts, for example, for its skin is not broken.

Chiba Prefecture

In part of Chiba Prefecture, special flower plants are used.

Niigata Prefecture Transit

The local dish, which runs to Niigata Prefecture, which has been painted with turquoise in golden time, is also called the "Cypress Red Food" and the "Klongoka Redfish." It's brown because it's colored with soy sauce. In this area, "red rice" is this oily flavor. There are other regions in the Niigata Prefecture that eat the brothy, but only Nagaoka calls this red food. In Nagaoka it's also used as a wedding gift.

Although no reliable literature has been found, there are the following theories at the birth:

Since there was no offering in Nagaoka, I used the sesame oil that I was used to color my rice. There was a town built of rice paddies, and it was made of soy sauce. In the Edo era, the former proto-sun of Osaka was brought with him a wrestler from Osaka, and a former wrestler, who had obtained permission from the master to produce soy sauce, gave the oil to the front of the store and provided the believers with rice that the wrestler had made with soy sauce.

Yamanashi Prefecture is eaten as a dinner for Hale's day, mainly in South Alps, in Sasang, in Yamanashi City, and in Kofu City. Since rice doesn't turn red, I use a red color to color it. Tastes are sweet, salted and sweet and tastey locally is popular. In this area, Japanese candy stores and supermarkets, besides sweet sweet-nut beans reds, both are sold in plain and plain red food.

Yamanashi Prefecture chooses this "red" for "specially chosen and unspecified foods." (See also #Hokkaido)

Nagano Prefecture

In the Nagano Prefecture region of Totoyoku, we are eaten by using flower beans instead of beans. It's because there are fewer beans growing. You can see the Sung-sung-sung head, which is the center of the Nanjo region and is wrapped in red rice instead of rice.

Fukui PrefectureOX.

Tokushima Prefecture Sound Gate

In Tokushima Prefecture Symphony Gate, it is customary to eat with "smooth sugar."

Text adapted and translated from the Japanese Wikipedia article 赤飯 by its contributors, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Dish data: Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF), “Uchi no Kyodo Ryori” (Our Regional Cuisines) database, used under the Public Data License (PDL1.0); translated and adapted from the Japanese original.