A handy screw top bottle of sweet cooking mirin, healthier than adding sugar to food. This Mitsukan honteri mirin is ideal to go with salads, yakitori, teriyaki, and as part of sushi seasoning.
Quick Recipe
Mirin Poached Beef
Ingredients
- 250g piece rump steak , trimmed of all fat
- 150ml vegetable stock
- 3 tbsp soy sauce
- 5 tbsp mirin
- 1 tbsp golden caster sugar
- 1 onion, halved and sliced
- ½ tbsp chopped pickled ginger
- 3 spring onions finely chopped
- 1 red chilly, thinly sliced
- steamed rice to serve
- Put the meat in the freezer while you prepare the other ingredients (this will help when slicing). Combine the stock, soy, mirin and sugar in a pan, bring to a boil, then turn down to a simmer. Add the onion and cook for 5 minutes.
- Meanwhile, slice the meat as thinly as you can. add the beef to the pan and cook for a few more minutes, stirring, until opaque. Sprinkle with pickled ginger, spring onions and chilli, and serve with steamed rice and some of the cooking liquid spooned over.
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- Corn syrup
- Water
- Fermented rice extract (rice, alcohol, salt and citric acid)
- Distilled vinegar
- Brown sugar
- Sodium benzoate and potassium sorbate (as preservatives)
Oyako don (chicken and rice bowl) - Serves 4
Cut 3/4 lb chicken thighs/breasts into bite-size pieces.
Bring 1 2/3 cupsof dashi stock, 7 Tbsp soy sauce, 4 Tbsp mirin and 3 Tbsp sugar to a simmer in a pan.
Add chicken and simmer for a few minutes. Add one thinly chopped onion and simmer for several minutes more.
Beat 4 eggs. Bring pan to boil and add eggs. Reduce heat to low and cover for about one minute.
Serve on a bed of Japanese rice.
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