Tsukudani (sushi nori boiled in soy sauce)
Tsukudani (sushi nori boiled in soy sauce)

Hey everyone, it’s Jim, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, tsukudani (sushi nori boiled in soy sauce). One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Tsukudani (sushi nori boiled in soy sauce) is one of the most favored of current trending meals in the world. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. They are fine and they look fantastic. Tsukudani (sushi nori boiled in soy sauce) is something which I have loved my whole life.

'Tsukudani' is a dish of commonly small fish, shellfish or seaweed cooked in Mirin, Sugar and Soy Sauce to preserve the ingredients. Seaweed 'Tsukudani' are often made with Kombu (Kelp) OR Nori. But for me, Wakame 'Tsukudani' is the easiest to make.

To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook tsukudani (sushi nori boiled in soy sauce) using 7 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Tsukudani (sushi nori boiled in soy sauce):
  1. Take 5 sushi nori
  2. Take 1 tbsp soy sauce
  3. Get 1 tbsp sake
  4. Get 1/2 tbsp mirin
  5. Get 1 tbsp honey
  6. Take 1/2 tsp Japanese soup (dashi) stock powder
  7. Prepare 1 cup water

Serve with freshly cooked fluffy hot rice. This Tsukudani consists of two layers: Nori cooked with traditional soy sauce and kneaded sea urchin. The harmony of the delicious taste of Nori and the flavor of the sea from sea urchin makes it. Tear Nori sheets into pieces and place them in a pot.

Instructions to make Tsukudani (sushi nori boiled in soy sauce):
  1. Tear sushi nori in small pieces. (As small as possible) Add water into a pot and teared nori. Leave for a half hour until nori gets soft.
  2. Add soy sauce, sake, mirin, honey and soup stock powder into the same pot and start heating. Once boiled, lower heat to low. Cook until boiled down. (I cooked for approx.30 mins.)
  3. Serve on top of cooked rice!!
  4. FYI : Japanese dashi stock powder - I love this brand “Kayanoya”, available online. https://usa.kayanoya.com/kayanoya-original-dashi-stock-powder.html

Tsukudani (佃煮) is seafood/fish, shellfish, meat, seaweed, or vegetable that has been simmered in sweet and savory sauce (typically with soy sauce, sugar, mirin) for a long time. It usually has an intensely sweet and savory flavor, which helps preserve the ingredients. So if I have many Nori, I sometime make "Nori no Tsukudani". Tsukudani is a Japanese preserved food that boiled down seafood, seaweed or meat with soy sauce, Mirin or sugar. Tukudani has strong taste, so Japanese people usually eat it with white rice.

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