Basic Inari Sushi for Bento
- 8 to 10 Aburaage
- 300 ml Dashi stock
- 3 tbsp Soy sauce
- 4 tbsp Sugar
- 4 tbsp Sake
- 1 tbsp Mirin
- 5 tbsp plus Vinegar
- 1 tsp Salt
- 2 to 3 tablespoons Sugar
- 1 dash White sesame seeds
- 1 dash Red pickled ginger
- 480 ml Uncooked white rice
- 1 as indicated on the rice cooker bowl Water
- 10 cm Kombu
- Roll the surface of the aburaage with a rolling pin or similar to make them easier to open up.
- Slice in half, and open them up so that they become little bags.
- Boil for a minute to get rid of the surface oil.
- Put the drained aburaage in a pan, add the ingredients.
- Cover with an otoshibuta drop lid that sits right on top, and simmer.
- Turn the aburaage over once as it simmers.
- Simmer until there's very little liquid left in the pan, and let cool.
- Rinse the rice 30 minutes before you intend to cook it and drain in a sieve.
- Add a little less water than you normally do, put in the konbu seaweed and cook in a rice cooker.
- Put the ingredients in a heatproof container and microwave for 20 seconds.
- When the rice is cooked, add the sushi vinegar, and mix together while fanning the rice to cool.
- Add finely chopped red pickled ginger and white sesame seeds to the rice and mix in.
- Divide the rice into as many portions as you have aburaage pockets, and squeeze lightly into oblong shapes.
- Drain the aburaage, and stuff with the sushi rice.
- Reduce the remaining cooking liquid, and brush on the inari sushi.
- Increase the amount of vinegar and salt in the sushi vinegar to taste.
- I think inari sushi tastes better if you use a little less sugar in the rice than you would for other types of sushi.
- You could also mix in leftover chopped kinpira (spicy stir fried carrots and burdock root) or simmered hijiki seaweed into the rice.
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aburaage, stock, soy sauce, sugar, sake, mirin, vinegar, salt, sugar, white sesame seeds, red, white rice, rice cooker bowl water
Taken from cookpad.com/us/recipes/143334-basic-inari-sushi-for-bento (may not work)