Inari Sushi with Minced Meat and Bamboo Shoots
Inari Sushi with Minced Meat and Bamboo Shoots

Hey everyone, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, inari sushi with minced meat and bamboo shoots. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

For Inari sushi cuisines, Aburaage is cooked using a very sweet seasoning. This unique taste compliments the sushi rice very well. Some of the vegetables you can use include carrots, dried mushrooms, bamboo shoots or Hijiki sea weed. It all depends on what you like.

Inari Sushi with Minced Meat and Bamboo Shoots is one of the most favored of recent trending foods on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Inari Sushi with Minced Meat and Bamboo Shoots is something which I’ve loved my entire life.

To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have inari sushi with minced meat and bamboo shoots using 20 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Inari Sushi with Minced Meat and Bamboo Shoots:
  1. Make ready 700 grams White rice
  2. Take 380 ml ☆Water
  3. Get 2 tbsp ☆Sake
  4. Get 1 tbsp ☆Soy sauce (Tokusen Maru-daizu soy sauce 750 ml)
  5. Take 1 small Bamboo shoot(fresh)
  6. Prepare 10 cm ★Daikon radish
  7. Get 150 ml ★Water
  8. Get 1 pinch ★Salt
  9. Make ready 6 pieces Aburaage
  10. Prepare 250 ml ◇Dashi stock
  11. Make ready 3 tbsp ◇Sake
  12. Get 1 tbsp ◇Soy sauce (Tokusen Maru-daizu soy sauce 750 ml)
  13. Get 1 tbsp ◇Mirin
  14. Prepare 50 grams Minced pork
  15. Make ready 1 tsp ◆Vegetable oil
  16. Take 1 tsp ◆Sake
  17. Take 1/2 tsp ◆Soy sauce (Tokusen Maru-daizu soy sauce 750 ml)
  18. Prepare 1/2 bunch Mitsuba leaves (Ito-Mitsuba)
  19. Take 1 piece Ginger
  20. Take 1 tbsp White sesame seeds

No need to boil the bamboo shoots beforehand! This is hearty inari-sushi that's not too sweet, stuffed with rice cooked with minced meat and bamboo shoots. Pack it in a lunch box for your Hanami (cherry blossom viewing) party. Make inari sushi with quickness and authenticity using japancentre.com's inari sushi recipe.

Steps to make Inari Sushi with Minced Meat and Bamboo Shoots:
  1. Roll the aburaage with a rolling pin to make them easier to open into pockets. Cut them into halves and open to the corners with your finger.
  2. Parboil the aburaage in boiling water for 2-3 minutes to remove excess oil. Strain in a colander. When cool to the touch, squeeze out the excess water.
  3. Cut the bamboo shoot in half lengthwise and peel. Cut it in half again and slice crosswise into 5 mm pieces, against the grain.
  4. To get rid of the bitterness of the bamboo shoot, grate the daikon radish and strain in a colander to collect the liquid. Pour the liquid with the same amount of water,and salt marked ★ into a bowl, and soak the bamboo shoots for 1 hour.
  5. Put the rinsed and drained rice in the rice cooker,pour in the water and seasonings marked ☆ and mix lightly. Let sit for about 1 hour.
  6. Bring the ingredients marked ◇ to a boil in a pot and add the aburaage from Step 2. Cover with a drop lid, and simmer over low heat until the liquid has evaporated. Allow to cool.
  7. Heat the vegetable oil in a skillet and brown the minced meat. Add the ◆ sake and soy sauce and stirfry until no liquid remains.
  8. Rinse the bamboo shoots with water and drain. Put them and the cooked meat from Step 7 into the rice cooker, mix lightly, and cook as usual.
  9. When the rice has cooked, let it rest and steam for 10 minutes. Add the white sesame seeds and stir well. Cool slightly.
  10. Chop mitsuba leaves into 2 to 3 cm pieces. Peel the ginger and cut into thin strips.
  11. Stuff each abura-age pocket with the rice mixture and fold the edges to the inside.
  12. Garnish with mitsuba leaves and ginger on top, and it's done!
  13. This shows a cross cut. The rice is stuffed full of bamboo shoots.The aroma of Mitsuba leaves and ginger bring out the taste of the soy sauce-flavored bamboo shoot rice.
  14. At our house,we like to stuff plenty of rice into the pockets.But you can also enjoy the rice as is,if you have some left over.

Pack it in a lunch box for your Hanami (cherry blossom viewing) party. Make inari sushi with quickness and authenticity using japancentre.com's inari sushi recipe. Named after the Shinto god for fertility, rice, agriculture and foxes (because this was allegedly his favourite food), inari sushi are deep-fried tofu 'pockets' filled with sushi rice. Inari, or in it's full name inarizushi-no-moto, is seasoned fried tofu bean pouch. It is used in different kinds of Japanese dishes generally referred to as As in most sushi ingredients, you can find Inari in your local Asian food store or Japanese market.

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