A seafood bowl of rice mixed with green tea leaves. Umami of seafood and tea leaves are mixed together.The bitterness of the tea leaves that lingers is one of the delicious elements of the seafood bowl.

■ Ingredients（ for 2 persons ）

• 400g rice
• 1 tbsp green tea leaf
• 1 horse mackerel (for sashimi)
• 60g tuna (for sashimi)
• 2 scallops (for sashimi)
• nori (laver) flakes
• kinome (sansho leaves)
• soy sauce and wasabi

■ Recipes

• 1. Make the green tea leaves finer with a grinder. Mix it with rice and arrange on a bowl.
• 2. Shave the horse mackerel, tuna and scallops into bite-sized pieces.
• 3. Place nori flakes on the rice and arrange the horse mackerel, tuna, scallops, and kinome colorfully. Serve it with soy sauce and wasabi.

Green tea leaf is rich in umam substance, glutamate. Combined with regular ingredients and recipes, it brings synergistic effect and becomes much tastier.