What are Senbei?

Senbei are glazed crispy rice biscuits that are generally bite size. They are usually purchased wrapped and come into wide varieties of taste, colors and shapes. This refreshment is often consumed in addition to green tea and sometimes also called Japanese biscuits. The common alternative spelling Senbei is Sembai. These cracker snacks are one of several varieties traditionally served with tea in Japan. These refreshments can generally be categorized to taste and texture. Categories of this type Cracker from rice include Kansai and Kanto Senbei. Kansai and Kanto are made of different types of rice. Kansai is generally lighter in taste and less dense than Kanto crackers.

In addition to rice flour and versatile wheat flour, ingredients in the Cracker Senbei part include oil, water and salt. Senbei rice flour and flouring flour and fluff. Usually Senbai is produced by frying, baking or grilling pieces of dough based on rice. Historically the biscuits were grilled overI am coal.

The cracker part of this snack often determines its dominant taste. The most common coating on Senbei is seaweed, but they can also be flavored with things such as nutty sesame or hot spices.

Because it's basically a flat rice cracker, Senbei can be many different things if it's still a rice cracker. In addition to conventional slustle and spicy cookies, there are sweet and candied varieties Cracker. It can be naturally colored by rice used to produce them, or they can be colored a wide range of bright colors to add festive taste. Senbei is one of many refreshments with tea in Japan. Other popular tea refreshments, Wagashi, are chewing and sweet confectionery, which is often shaped as a flower.

Other types of rice biscuits are identified by their coating and whether they are sweet, spicy or candied. Among other types of rice biscuits toArare and Okaki belong to Japan. Arare is a sweet or salty round crack that has a similar shape to a pebble. Okaki are roasted slices Mochi, sweet Japanese rice cake.