Hello everybody, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, abura-age & carrot takikomi gohan. One of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Abura-age & Carrot Takikomi Gohan is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions daily. Abura-age & Carrot Takikomi Gohan is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.
Abura-age (油揚げ), is a Japanese food product made from soybeans. Abura-age is often used to wrap inari-zushi (稲荷寿司), and is added to miso soup. It is also added to udon noodle dishes, which are called kitsune-udon because of legends that foxes like deep-fried.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook abura-age & carrot takikomi gohan using 9 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Abura-age & Carrot Takikomi Gohan:
- Make ready 2 cups (*180ml cup) Japanese Short Grain Rice
- Take 1 Abura-age (Fried Thin Tofu)
- Get 1 small Carrot
- Get 400 ml Dashi Stock *OR Water and 1 teaspoon Dashi Powder
- Take 1/2 teaspoon Salt
- Take 1 tablespoons Soy Sauce
- Make ready 1 tablespoon Sake (Rice Wine)
- Take 1 Spring Onion *finely chopped
- Make ready Toasted Sesame Seeds
Aburaage, also called Usuage, is thin deep fried tofu. It has a mild soy flavor and a spongy texture and absorbs seasonings well. You can open it up and make a pouch to use for Inarizushi or cut thinly to use for Miso soup, and it is also a main ingredient for Kitsune Udon. It often comes packaged as squares or rectangles.
Instructions to make Abura-age & Carrot Takikomi Gohan:
- Wrap Abura-age with paper towel and warm in the microwave. Then press it to remove excess oil if required. This process is optional.
- Cut Abura-age and Carrot into small pieces. Today I cut Carrot into strips using a vegetable slicer.
- Wash Rice by stirring it thoroughly in water with your hand and drain the water. Repeat this a few more times until water flows through clear.
- Place it into the rice cooker’s inner pot and add Dashi Stock, Salt, Soy Sauce and Sake (Rice Wine). Add extra Water, if necessary, to make up to the 2-cups-marking. Gently stir.
- Place Abura-age and Carrot pieces over the rice evenly. Press ‘COOK’ button to start cooking. When the rice is cooked, let it steamed for 10 minutes. Then loosen and mix gently.
- Sprinkle with some finely chopped Spring Onion and Toasted Sesame Seeds on top and enjoy.
These puffy pouches of deep-fried tofu are so good braised in a dashi-sugar-shoyu-sake mixture. Serve prepared aburaage as a side dish, stuffed with seasoned rice, or in bowls of hot udon. Buying tofu is a lot cheaper, so I tried making some aburaage from scratch. Basically, frying these on low heat will cause them to. We work hard to protect your security and privacy.
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