Hey everyone, it is Louise, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, shirasu rice bowl (shirasu-don). One of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

A popular dish in the Shonan region of Japan made with shirasu, or baby sardines. This recipe came directly from the fisherman! His "top secret" sauce will make the best shirasu don you've had yet!

Shirasu Rice Bowl (Shirasu-don) is one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It is appreciated by millions every day. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. Shirasu Rice Bowl (Shirasu-don) is something which I have loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.

To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook shirasu rice bowl (shirasu-don) using 6 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Shirasu Rice Bowl (Shirasu-don):

1. Make ready 1 serving cooked rice
2. Make ready 1 handful Kama-age Shirasu, or boiled shirasu/baby sardines
3. Make ready 1 leaf Shiso, also called Perilla or Ooba
4. Take 2 teaspoons sesame seeds
5. Make ready 1 teaspoon soy sauce
6. Make ready 1/2 teaspoon mirin

It is one of the specialties in this town, besides being the birthplace of Japanese soy sauce. After leaving Shirahama with a heavy heart, we began heading back to Wakayama city. This recipe came directly from the fisherman! His "top secret" sauce will make the best shirasu don you've had yet!

Instructions to make Shirasu Rice Bowl (Shirasu-don):

1. Mix the soy sauce and mirin to make the sauce. Slice the shiso leaf into very thin strips.
2. Fill your rice bowl with a serving of hot rice and top it with plenty of shirasu.
3. Pore over the sauce and garnish with the sliced shiso leaf and sesame seeds.
4. This is also great with minced myoga ginger and/or grated ginger.

Kama-age shirasu (boiled, not dried, shirasu) come in various grades of saltiness, so adjust how. Ginnabe is located alongside the road passing by Enoshima Station. Be sure to treat yourself to a generous serving of [Kaisen-don] (rice bowl dish with seafood) that includes shirasu. Besides the shirasu, there's tuna, shrimp, and other fresh seafood. During the shirasu season, you'll also be able to enjoy [Raw Shirasu-don].

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