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Shirasu Don (Baby Sardine Rice Bowl)
Serves 2 · About 10 min (If you have cooked rice)
Top warm rice with boiled baby sardines, shiso, green onion and nori. A rice bowl you can make with no heat.
① Cut the toppings→② Put the rice in bowls→③ Top with the sardines→④ Pour on soy sauce
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How to make it
1
Cut the shiso and green onions
- Wash the shiso and pat dry. Stack 4 leaves, roll them up, and on a cutting board cut thinly from the end (1–2 mm wide)
- Wash the green onions, cut off the roots, and cut into 2–3 mm rounds from the end
How to tell it's doneThe shiso is in thin strips and the green onions are in small rings.
2
Put the rice in bowls
- Put about 200 g of warm rice in each bowl and lightly flatten the top
How to tell it's doneThe top of the rice is flat.
3
Add the sardines and toppings
- Spread half (50 g) of the sardines over each bowl of rice
- Put the shiso in the middle and scatter the green onions and shredded nori around it
- Sprinkle 1 tsp toasted white sesame seeds, half on each bowl
How to tell it's doneThe sardines are spread so you can't see the rice, with green toppings and nori on top.
4
Pour on soy sauce
- Right before eating, drizzle 1 tsp soy sauce over each bowl
- If you like, drizzle 1/2 tsp sesame oil on each
ReadySoy sauce is on the sardines. Eat right away.
Be carefulIf you add too much soy sauce first, it gets salty. If it needs more, add some as you eat.
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If it didn't work out
Too saltyThe sardines are salty too. Next time, use half the soy sauce, taste, then add more.
It smells fishyThe sardines are old. Eat them on the day you buy them or the next day.
The rice is cold and dryWarm cold rice in the microwave before putting it in the bowl.
The toppings went limpPut them on right after cutting. It is best to cut them just before serving.
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