Black Cod Cooked with Sake

11 ingredients
10 steps

Ingredients

  • 36 ounces sake
  • 1 (7-ounce) black cod fillet
  • 6 slices peeled ginger root, plus shredded ginger, for garnish
  • 3 thick pieces burdock root
  • 3 thick pieces Japanese mountain potato
  • 3 ounces regular soy sauce
  • Pinch Japanese premium white sugar
  • 1 ounce mirin
  • 1 ounce tamari soy sauce
  • White scallion, for garnish
  • Kinome (available at Japanese markets), watercress or mint leaves could be substituted

Directions

  1. 1
    In a medium pot, bring sake to a boil and cook for 5 minutes.
  2. 2
    Add black cod, ginger slices, burdock root and mountain potato.
  3. 3
    Then add regular soy and sugar and cook with a lid right over the fillet, not over the pot.
  4. 4
    This lid must be slightly smaller than the rim of the pot so that steam can evaporate through the gap.
  5. 5
    When the vegetables and black cod are cooked through, remove them from the pot and boil the sauce until thickened slightly and reduced.
  6. 6
    Add mirin for glazing.
  7. 7
    Then add tamari soy.
  8. 8
    Place the fillet on a plate, garnish it with cooked vegetables.
  9. 9
    Pour the sauce over them.
  10. 10
    Garnish with white scallion, shredded ginger and kinome on top.

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