Osechi (New year food)

Cristmas comming soon but I skip the X'mas and I'd like to tell a New Year food "Osechi".

Do you like Osechi? I like it. I usually buy it at store or my grandmother made some osechi items for families.

Today I made Osechi at cooking school. It was a first time for me to make osechi. It was a good experience because I found that making osechi was not so difficult.

I'd like to introduce some items of osechi.

Zoni: it is a soup including rice cake and it is celeblating food of Yew year. there are 2 kinds when it is distributed roughly, kansai style and kanto style. The features of kansai's are included a round rice cake and miso soup. On the other hands, kanto's are incleded a square rice cake and clear soup. However, there are many kinds of zoni because there are many home tastes.

Namasu(cool down): it is vegetasbles with dressing of the vinegar. The main vegetable is Japanese radish. it means the prosperity of house. New year's namasu is usually made with white and red color food like Japanese radish and carrot. White color means the cleanliness and red color means the sun and pulse.

Kuromame(black soybean): it is food boild and seasoned of the black soybean. there is a with to work with health.


If you make Osechi yourself and you have some recipe of Oseechi, please tell me.