Seafood! Mackerel Simmered in Miso
Seafood! Mackerel Simmered in Miso

Hello everybody, it is Brad, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, seafood! mackerel simmered in miso. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Seafood! Mackerel Simmered in Miso is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods in the world. It is appreciated by millions every day. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. They are fine and they look fantastic. Seafood! Mackerel Simmered in Miso is something which I have loved my entire life.

The sauce will thicken once it cools, so take that into consideration while preparing the sauce. If you overcook the fish, the flavor will be compromised, so be careful. I recommend using a shallow pot or frying pan.

To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have seafood! mackerel simmered in miso using 11 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Seafood! Mackerel Simmered in Miso:
  1. Take 1 Mackerel
  2. Prepare 1 Japanese leek
  3. Get 4 tbsp Miso
  4. Get 2 tbsp Mirin
  5. Take 200 ml Sake
  6. Take 100 ml Water
  7. Make ready 1 tbsp Sugar
  8. Prepare 10 grams Ginger (sliced)
  9. Take 1 Leek (the white part only), finely julienned
  10. Make ready 1 Ginger, finely julienned
  11. Take 1 Eggplant (deep fried)

Mix miso and mirin in a cup. Take some liquid from above mentioned pot to make miso sauce softer. Add the miso sauce to the fish pot. Add cut spring onion, sliced ginger, too.

Steps to make Seafood! Mackerel Simmered in Miso:
  1. Scale the fish, and place the knife between the pectoral fin and gills and chop off the head.
  2. Gut the fish, and rinse the inside and fillet it. For those who dislike the small bones, use fish bone tweezers to extract the bones.
  3. Make a decorative crisscross cut not only for the appearance, but also to allow the flavors to absorb well.
  4. Chop the leeks into 3-cm lengths, and slowly grill over low heat until brown.
  5. Chop the eggplant into eight equal pieces, and soak them in salt water. Wipe the excess water, then deep-fry them in oil for 3-4 minutes.
  6. Combine the miso and mirin. A blend of different types of miso enhances the flavor.
  7. Blanch the mackerel to remove the odor: place the mackerel in boiling water for 5 seconds, drain, and transfer to chilled water. Rinse off any of the slipperiness in the cold water.
  8. Alternatively, you could also pan-fry the fish in a frying pan. This will not only remove their odor, but will add a nice aroma.
  9. Pour the sake into the frying pan, heat the pan, and evaporate the alcohol. Then, add the sugar and water.
  10. Once it comes to a boil again, add the mackerel, cover with a drop lid, and simmer for 3 minutes over low heat to let the flavors of the sauce fully cook into the fish.
  11. After 3 minutes, with the heat still on medium, pour in 2/3 of the miso and mirin sauce, and simmer for 5 minutes.
  12. After 5 minutes, add the grilled leeks, and add the remaining 1/3 of the miso. Spoon the sauce over the fish and simmer until the sauce thickens. Be careful not to simmer it for too long!
  13. Use a spatula to transfer the fish to a plate, then drizzle on the sauce. Arrange the leeks and eggplant beside it, and garnish with the shredded white leek.

Stir well to combine, and bring to the boil. After boiling, reduce heat to low. Simmered mackerel with miso is a popular menu If you can get fresh mackerel, you can make it with a frying pan at home. It is a dish that matches rice well. The featured fish will be Mackerel and the Japanese name is Saba.

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