Hi, there! How are you doing>>???
It's been sooooooo cold in here... It went down to 2 degrees last night( -- _ --''
Winter....Winter....Winter.............
I wanted to eat something that goes really well with rice....and I thought about it.....
Oh...! I haven't made this dish!!! YES!!! " Saba no Misoni" This dish goes really really well with rice.. You can eat a lot of rice with this!!!lol
Saba means Mackerel and Misoni means simmered in Miso paste, so basically fish cooked in Miso paste. Miso paste is the one you use for Miso soup, and add sugar, 2 -3 slices of ginger, and a little bit of soy sauce to cook. Isn't it so simple??? Japanese food is not complicated, so it is very easy to cook...
First, you need to boil 1L of water, and pour it on top of the fish, like you are rinsing fish with the hot water! This makes huge different!!! so do not forget to do this....!!! If you do this, takes some of the fishy smell, and you won't smell as much when it's done.
Second, put 500ml of water, 3 table spoon of Miso paste, 1 table spoon of soy sauce, 50g of sugar into the pan. Bring it to boil, and put the fish in, cook for 10 minutes at medium low heat. Take the fish out, set aside. Reduce the sauce by half or until it's thicken... but be careful not to over do it, because you going to burn it due to the sugar and Miso....As long as the sauce is like a gravy, then it is ready!
Last one, put the fish back in the gravy pan, and heat it up...Do not let it burn!!!!!!!
Once it is heated, dish it up and ready to EAT, Yum Yum Yum( > o <v
If you are salty person, then you can reduce the amount of sugar...
If you are sweet person, then you can add more sugar...
If you do not like the fishy smell, then you can add 50ml of cooking sake to reduce fishy smell...
Oh! and make sure that Miso paste has Dashi (fish stock or seaweed stock or both) in it...because some Miso does not have Dashi in it...some Miso paste can be just PLAIN MISO, means no taste, just pasted soy beans.....Should say on the package like "AWASE MISO"...means stock included!!!
Have fun ( oo u oo)
Thanks!!!!!