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Exmoor-Style Halloween Pumpkin Rice Ball Jack-o'-Lanterns

Exmoor-Style Halloween Pumpkin Rice Ball Jack-o'-Lanterns

20 min prep · 35 min cook · Medium · 4 servings
Japanese🎃 Halloween
Golden pumpkin rice balls become a cheerful little Halloween patch, with seaweed faces and pumpkin-stem details.

Ingredients
1 cup (200 g) short-grain rice→
300 g pumpkin, peeled and cut into small cubes→
1 tablespoon neutral oil→
1 tablespoon rice vinegar→
1/2 teaspoon fine salt, plus more to taste→
1 nori sheet→
1 small cucumber or a few chives, for stems→
Water, for cooking the rice and shaping the rice balls→
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Method
1
Heat the oven to 200°C (400°F).
2
Rinse the rice until the water runs mostly clear.
3
Cook the rice with water according to the package directions.
4
Spread the pumpkin cubes on a lined baking tray.
5
Drizzle the pumpkin with the oil.
6
Roast the pumpkin until tender, about 25 minutes.
7
Mash the roasted pumpkin until smooth.
8
Stir the vinegar and salt into the cooked rice.
9
Fold 1/2 cup of mashed pumpkin into the rice.
10
Taste the rice and add more salt if needed.
11
Cut small eyes, noses, and grins from the nori sheet.
12
Dip your hands in water.
13
Shape the rice mixture into 8 compact balls.
14
Press shallow vertical grooves into each ball to suggest pumpkin ridges.
15
Stick the nori features onto the rice balls.
16
Cut the cucumber or chives into short stem shapes.
17
Place a stem on top of each rice ball.
18
Arrange the rice balls on a serving plate.

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