A stylish and tasty selection of snacks for when you’re missing your favourite Japanese street food during lockdown
If you make the sushi, pickles and dipping sauces in the morning, all you have to do later on are the kumara pancakes and tempura veg.
Clockwise from top left: Salmon sushi, wasabi, pickled ginger (out of a packet), cucumber and avo sushi. I’m not so good at making sushi, mine fall apart when you pick them up, so I’m not going to try to tell anyone how to do it. This is what I do know: cook 1/2 cup sushi rice for each sheet of nori (the amount in the picture used 2 sheets of nori and 1 cup rice), mix though 1 tbsp rice wine vinegar and 1 tsp sugar and let cool. Assemble some fillings and follow the instructions on the packet of nori. It helps to have something to roll them up in. Good luck!
Okonomyaki pancakes: an Osaka style pancake street food, usually made out of cabbage and bigger than this. This is a finger food twist using kumara and asian greens.
Okonomyaki dipping sauce: a weird mix of tomato sauce, worcester sauce and soy sauce. It works!
Quick pickled cucumbers: sweet, sour, fast to make and refreshing
Quick pickled watermelon radish
Tempura veg: Pieces of vegetables coated in a light batter and deep fried until crispy
food ripe from my garden 