Quick But Delicious Inarizushi
- 5 pieces Aburaage
- 600 ml Water
- 5 tbsp Soft light brown sugar
- 5 tbsp Soy sauce
- 350 grams Plain cooked rice
- 60 ml Sushi vinegar
- 3 tbsp Vinegar
- 1 ~3 1/2 tablespoons Soft light brown sugar
- 1 1/2 tsp Salt
- 1 White sesame seeds
- Prepare the Ingredients: Rinse and soak the rice, and cook.
- Cut the aburaage in half, and pour hot water over.
- It's amazing... the pocket in the tofu opens up on its own.
- Please make sure the pocket opens up and watch the heat.
- Simmer: Add water, sugar and soy sauce in a pot and bring to a boil.
- Add the aburaage pieces.
- At the start, the aburaage will float.
- Press it into the pot if it does.
- Use enough water to cover the tofu pieces, adjust according to the size of your pot.
- I used an 18 cm pot.
- Finish: Simmer at medium to high heat.
- For the sauce to soak through the aburaage, flip the aburaage from time to time and spoon the sauce over.
- After simmering for about 15 minutes on low heat, turn off the heat and let cool.
- The picture shows how it looks like when it's done.
- Make the Sushi Rice - After the rice has been cooked, sprinkle with sushi vinegar and mix in a cut-and-fold motion.
- If you don't have any sushi vinegar, mix the condiments in a bowl and use that in place of the sushi vinegar.
- Stuff the Sushi Rice 1: Divide the sushi rice into 10 equal parts.
- Squeeze the chilled aburaage slightly, and stuff each with a portion of rice.
- If you squeeze the aburaage too hard, it won't be juicy anymore.
- Just make sure that the sauce doesn't drip.
- A light press would be OK.
- Stuff the Sushi Rice 2: After you have stuffed the opened aburaage with rice, close the skin as shown in the picture.
- If you stuff it with less rice, it's easier to close up the tofu.
- Make sure to not break the skin.
- Once you are done, simply place it on a plate with the opened end facing the bottom.
- Now you can have a hearty meal of juicy inari sushi!
- Serve: Here I turned the aburaage inside out and stuffed them with sushi rice mixed with white sesame.
- Notes: This isn't sweet like the ready-made mixes or store-bought inarizushi.
- Adjust the flavor by changing the amount of sugar and mirin.
- It's also fine to decrease the amount of soy sauce.
- COOKPAD user "Harupii" packed the inarizushi in bentos.
- It's so cute with faces!
- What a wonderful transformation!
aburaage, water, light brown sugar, soy sauce, rice, vinegar, vinegar, light brown sugar, salt, white sesame seeds
Taken from cookpad.com/us/recipes/168289-quick-but-delicious%E2%99%A1-inarizushi (may not work)