Handmade Kiritanpo and Damako Traditional Rice Dumplings from Akita Prefecture

Name: Handmade Kiritanpo and Damako Traditional Rice Dumplings from Akita Prefecture
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 700 grams Regular Japanese rice or leftover cooked rice; 1 Water; 1 Salt

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Our family finance minister, my mother-in-law, was away on a trip. My father-in-law wanted kiritanpo, so I rose to the challenge and made them myself.

Salt water is used to make the rice more glutinous.
When cooking these in a frying pan, make sure to have space between the dumplings so that they don't stick to each other.
Damako (the round dumplings) are easier to make, but kiritanpo (the long thin dumplings) absorb more flavor and are tastier. (According to my dear husband.) For 3 to 4 servings. Recipe by Momopanda

Our family finance minister, my mother-in-law, was away on a trip. My father-in-law wanted kiritanpo, so I rose to the challenge and made them myself.

cookpad.japan @cookpad_jp

Our family finance minister, my mother-in-law, was away on a trip. My father-in-law wanted kiritanpo, so I rose to the challenge and made them myself.

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Ingredients

4 servings

700 gramsRegular Japanese rice or leftover cooked rice
1Water
1Salt

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Steps

1

Rinse the rice and cook as usual. In our house we make the dumplings whenever we have a lot of leftover rice.
2

Put the cooked rice in a sturdy plastic bag, and pound it over the bag with your hands, until the rice grains are partly smushed.
3

Combine water and salt. The water should be a bit salty.
4

Moisten your hands with the salt water and form the dumplings. See step 5 for kiritanpo, and step 6 for damako.
5

To make kiritanpo: Form the rice around disposable chopsticks. Press and stretch the rice around the chopstick evenly. This may be a bit difficult.
6

To make damako: Roll golf ball sized balls of rice between your palms. You can coat them with katakuriko as I did here, or grill them.
7

Cook the kiritanpo in a frying pan until lightly browned on the surface. If they burn a bit, it's ok. When you eat them in a hot pot they will be very nutty and fragrant.
8

Finished! Here are some extra tips:
9

You can freeze these as well. Line on parchment paper, and store in a closed plastic container.
10

If you spread sweet miso paste on kiritanpo, you'll have an Akita specialty called Miso Kiritanpo.