JAPANESE SWEET RICE DUMPLINGS

Ingeridents :

3 cups water
1 ½ cups sweet brown rice, uncooked
1 pinch sea salt
3/4 raisins
3/4 tsp cinnamon
2 ½ cups walnuts, shelled

Method :

Bring water to boil in 2 quart saucepan. Add rice and salt, cover and reduce heat to medium. Cook for one hour (or until rice is tender). Remove from heat and let cool for 5 minutes. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Mix half the raisins and half the cinnamon into half of the rice and process mixture thoroughly through a grain mill. Or you can place mixture in wooden bowl and pound until paste forms. Repeat with the remaining rice, raisins and cinnamon. Place walnuts on a baking sheet and roast in oven and let cool. Finely chop walnuts. Measure rice into 2½ tbsp portions. Shape dumplings with moistened hands. Roll each dumpling in walnuts to coat. Serve immediately.