Hello everybody, it’s me again, Dan, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, abura-age & carrot takikomi gohan. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
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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. Aburaage (油揚げ) is Japanese deep-fried tofu pouches made from soybeans.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to 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:
- Prepare 2 cups (*180ml cup) Japanese Short Grain Rice
- Prepare 1 Abura-age (Fried Thin Tofu)
- Get 1 small Carrot
- Make ready 400 ml Dashi Stock *OR Water and 1 teaspoon Dashi Powder
- Make ready 1/2 teaspoon Salt
- Take 1 tablespoons Soy Sauce
- Make ready 1 tablespoon Sake (Rice Wine)
- Make ready 1 Spring Onion *finely chopped
- Get Toasted Sesame Seeds
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. Aburaage is a thin slice of tofu that has been deep-fried.
Steps 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.
When fried, they puff up and form a big air pocket inside. They are essentially big golden pouches of fried tofu. You can try to make aburaage (I don't love deep-frying at home), but most people buy already fried aburaage. Wrap them with a thick towel and leave overnight. Add the tofu to the oil while it is still lukewarm.
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