Frushi

My amazing thing for today is frushi. Imagine sushi but sweet. Imagine not fish but fruit. I say imagine because I can't take a picture. They were all eaten. Sorry. But in case you would like to try to make it, the recipe is as follows (Not strictly since I usually do it to taste having lost the actual recipe years ago).

2 cups of short grain rice or sushi rice
2 1/2 cups of water
Berries, like strawberries, raspberries, blueberries and other fruits like mango and/or kiwi
sugar
1 can of coconut milk

1 cup of sugar

Either follow the steps on the bag of rice you buy (only adding water and rice--nothing else) or dump it all in a rice cooker to do it for you, which I highly recommend. Rice cookers are amazing--and you absolutely do not have to go with the top of the line. Mine is the cheapest one I could find at Bed, Bath, and Beyond and it works great. The only issue I have with it is it will burn the rice if I let it sit too long after the cooking is done.

Once it is cooked mix all of the rice with one can of coconut milk (not the tiny one) and about one cup of sugar. Stir it all together really well. It will be pretty liquidy. Cover the bowl of rice with saran wrap making sure to lay the wrap directly onto the rice mixture. Let is sit for about an hour or so.

Next, slice some strawberries and kiwi and mango. You can even use blueberries and raspberries for the fruit part.

Next, with your very clean hands, scoop a bit of the mixture into one hand and form a nice rectangular lump of sweet rice with the first two fingers of your other hand. (I really do need pictures, huh?)

Place the neatly formed rectangles of rice onto a platter. Once you have all the rice formed, you can then add the fruit on top so it looks kind of like sushi. You can serve it immediately or put it in the fridge and serve the next day, but I would not expect it to last longer than two days. It kind of dries out a bit and is not as tasty. I guess I really should add some pictures. Guess I need to make some more. Yea!