Product Description

Just add water to make wasabi paste served with sushi!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #11250 in Gourmet Food
• Brand: Pacific Rim Gourmet
• Ingredients: Japanese horseradish, mustard, cornstarch, artificial color, FD&C Yellow #5 (Tartrazine).
• Dimensions: .50 pounds

Features

• Hime Brand
• Net Wt. 1 oz.
• Product of Japan

Customer Reviews

The Princess of Hot Stuff
"Hime" is "Princess Brand" and it is a big seller in Japanese and Korean grocery stores. This faintly green powder is mixed with water to make a thick paste to get wasabi, used for sushi, sashimi and to flavor tuna and other dishes.

One trick is to mix the wasabi in a rice bowl or tea bowl and turn the bowl upside-down. Yes, that's what I said, turn it over. The paste will stick in the bowl, and the developing sulfurous gases that make wasabi hot, hot, hot are retained, improving the bite. Get that wasabi buzz.

I like to use it in tuna with wasabi-potato crust. Or being short on time, I just grill some yellowtail and mix a wasabi-sugar-soy sauce glaze and brush it on at the end of the grilling. Hot and sweet. Another totally bizarre but quite normal Japanese dish is wasabi nori chazuke, or tea-rice. Get some leftover rice warmed up in a bowl, put a dab of wasabi and a sprinkle of sushi nori strips. Pour hot green tea (bancha) over and drink like a soup. Said to be a cure for hangover (I wouldn't know, but they say it works.)