Green-tea ochazuke

Name: Green-tea ochazuke
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 5 min
Total time: 10 min
Yield: 2
Cuisine: Japanese
Ingredients: 400 g Plain ready-cooked rice; 320 g Unsweetened ready-brewed Japanese green tea (sencha); 4 g Dried nori seaweed; 12 g Sesame seeds; 12 g Soy sauce

Japanese ready-cooked rice with warm unsweetened sencha tea, nori and sesame.

Estimated total time: 10 minutes2 portionsAbout 300 kcal per portion

Green-tea ochazuke — representative dish photograph — Photo: ととりん · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Photo source. Wikimedia photograph; responsive display cropping. The photograph shows pickles beside a plain tea-rice bowl; the written recipe omits pickles and adds nori and sesame.

Ingredients for 2 portions

400 g Plain ready-cooked rice
320 g Unsweetened ready-brewed Japanese green tea (sencha)
4 g Dried nori seaweed
12 g Sesame seeds
12 g Soy sauce

Method

Start with 400 g plain ready-cooked rice, not dry rice; safe cooking and cooling of a fresh batch are outside this 10-minute window. Cut 4 g plain unseasoned nori into thin strips. Measure 12 g sesame seeds and 12 g soy sauce.
Warm the rice thoroughly according to its storage or packet instructions. Heat 320 g unsweetened ready-brewed Japanese sencha gently in a small pan until steaming, without boiling it hard. Check its label to ensure it contains tea and water only, with no sugar or animal-derived additives.
Divide the rice between two deep bowls. Scatter nori and sesame across the rice. Pour half the hot tea into each bowl to partly submerge the grains, then drizzle half the soy sauce over each. Serve at once before the nori softens completely.

Just One Cookbook describes ochazuke as steamed rice with green tea or dashi and toppings; it also gives a vegetarian tea version. This version uses ready-brewed unsweetened sencha and omits the source’s salmon, fish stock and rice-cracker topping. It is a light breakfast, distinct from okayu because the rice is not simmered into porridge and tea is poured on at service. Ready-cooked rice is mandatory for the 10-minute estimate. Soy sauce flags soy and gluten; sesame is also flagged. The Commons photograph shows plain tea-rice with pickles on a side plate and no visible nori/sesame, which are added here. Tea is modelled at zero kcal per 100 g because unsweetened brewed tea supplies negligible energy; branded labels can vary.

煎茶のお茶漬け

Allergens and ingredient checks

Listed allergens: gluten, sesame, soy. Check actual packaging and cross-contact information. Nutrition is estimated from ingredient weights; recipe suitability depends on the specified products.

Namiko Hirasawa Chen / Just One Cookbook — ochazuke with green tea

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