One of my great pleasures is cooking Japanese eel rice in the kitchen. Sweet caramel sauce topped with homemade roasted eel and rice. This recipe will make all Japanese food lovers salivate. Eel sushi is very popular in Japan, but it can never be compared with warm eel rice. This classic dish is called Japanese eel, and the smell of caramelized eel sauce is enough to make my mouth water.

what is an eel?

Eel is a classic Japanese dish, including rice, roasted eel slices, sweet soy sauce and caramel, and eel slices are best roasted with charcoal fire.

eels have high nutritional value and are rich in vitamins A, E and -3 fatty acids.

most Japanese don't buy live eels. They have vacuum-packed roasted eels or semi-finished products that have not been roasted.

ingredients: 15g eel, 1g Chinese cabbage and 1g steamed rice

accessories: 5g winter bamboo shoots.

Seasoning: 5g of salt, 5g of cooking wine, 5g of soy sauce, 15g of vegetable oil and 5g of sugar

How to make eel rice:

1. Marinate squid with seasonings such as refined salt, cooking wine and soy sauce for a period of time

2. Turn on the oven and adjust the temperature to 18 degrees Celsius

3. Bake the marinated squid. Add squid, broth, soy sauce, sugar, etc. Taste and drain the water in the pot after the water is drained

5. Pour the cooked squid on the rice

Eel: Eel can't be eaten with vinegar and ginkgo

Rice (steamed): Rice should not be eaten with horse meat, honey and Xanthium sibiricum

How to taste a bowl of "ecstasy" eel rice

Eat authentic eel three times. Unlike eels, the container for eating eel rice three times is a bucket instead of a box.

a bowl of eel rice, a bowl of eel liver soup, two pieces of fried fish bones, various ingredients and a pot of rice soup

the first bowl, taste the original flavor directly. Eel and rice in your mouth. Chewing, first scorched skin, then soft but not loose meat, and then glutinous rice. As a result, delicious food is mixed in the mouth, the eel is fresh, the sauce is salty and sweet, and the rice is fragrant.

in the second bowl, add seasonings such as onion and seaweed (according to personal preference). After adding seasoning, it is like adding a fresh taste, which makes the taste complicated, but keeps harmony.

the third bowl is tea and rice. Add onion, seaweed and wasabi, and pour in hot soup to dilute the flavor of the sauce and let the flavor of the seasoning come out, especially the mixing of wasabi, which brings another flavor experience. (It would be better if it could be replaced with fresh wasabi.)