Tuna Zuke Don - Japanese Cooking 101
Ingredients
- Tuna7 oz
- Perilla leaf4
- Rice2 cups
- Roasted seaweed
- Sesame seed1 tsp
- Wasabi paste
- Soy sauce2 tbsp
- Sake1 tbsp
- Mirin1 tbsp
Instructions
- Make the zuke sauce: combine all its ingredients in a small pot, bring to a boil and cook for one minute. Pour into a small container and let cool.
- Thinly slice the sashimi-grade tuna and marinate it in the zuke sauce for 20 minutes. Keep refrigerated until used.
- Cut the shiso leaves very finely.
- For each bowl, place 1 cup of steamed rice in the bowl. Top the rice with shredded nori.
- Lay half of the marinated tuna on top, and spoon some zuke sauce over it.
- Sprinkle sesame seeds over the tuna. Place a small mound of the cut shiso in the middle and add wasabi.
- Make a second bowl the same way.
Summarized from Japanese Cooking 101's video. Watch it for the details.
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