{"id":9262,"date":"2026-04-02T00:47:35","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T00:47:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.kaukauchronicles.org\/?p=9262"},"modified":"2026-04-02T00:47:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T00:47:35","slug":"ume-okai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.kaukauchronicles.org\/?p=9262","title":{"rendered":"UME OKAI (Salted Plum Rice Gruel)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"sqs-html-content\" data-sqsp-text-block-content>\n<p class=\"p2\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\">3 to 4 large ume (salted plums)<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\">2 to 3 pkgs. shaved, dried bonito<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\">1 Tbsp. sake (rice wine)<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\">1 Tbsp. sugar <\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\">\u00bd tsp. shoyu<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\">Remove seeds from ume and mash ume. Combine ume with all the other ingredients. Serve with okai.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\">\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\">MISO VARIATION:<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\">Substitute 4 tablespoons miso and 1 heaping tablespoon sugar in place of the sugar, sake, and shoyu.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"image-gallery-wrapper\">\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.squarespace-cdn.com\/content\/v1\/5ef939f36932313286f61200\/1775090583991-TZ4HHUAQDIMWF4PKCYPF\/Screenshot+2026-04-01+at+5.34.17%E2%80%AFPM.png?format=original\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>3 to 4 large ume (salted plums) 2 to 3 pkgs. shaved, dried bonito 1 Tbsp. sake (rice wine) 1 Tbsp. sugar \u00bd tsp. shoyu Remove seeds from ume and mash ume. Combine ume with all the other ingredients. Serve with okai. MISO VARIATION: Substitute 4 tablespoons miso and 1 heaping tablespoon sugar in place&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":9263,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[165],"class_list":["post-9262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rice-dishes","tag-simply-delicious-recipes-koganji-temple-1982"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.kaukauchronicles.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.kaukauchronicles.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.kaukauchronicles.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.kaukauchronicles.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.kaukauchronicles.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.kaukauchronicles.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.kaukauchronicles.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.kaukauchronicles.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.kaukauchronicles.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}