Simmered Flatfish with Ginger

7 ingredients
9 steps

Ingredients

  • 3 flatfish fillets
  • 5-10 g ginger (peeled and sliced thinly)
  • *140 ml water, sake
  • *35 ml mirin
  • *30 ml soy sauce
  • *2 Tbsp sugar
  • 500 ml water for blanching flatfishes

Directions

  1. 1
    Bring water to a boil in a pan.
  2. 2
    Prepare ice water in a bowl.
  3. 3
    When boiled water, turn off the heat and blanch the flatfish for 10 seconds and immediately plunge into the ice water.
  4. 4
    Pat them dry with paper towels.
  5. 5
    Combine the sauce ingredients (*) in a pan, bring to a simmer over medium-high heat.
  6. 6
    Add the flatfish and cook for 5 minutes with a small lid directly on the flatfishes (you can substitute with aluminum foil cut into the size of inner pan).
  7. 7
    Add the ginger and keep cooking with the same lid for 8~10 minutes.
  8. 8
    Skim off the foam when it rises on the surface.
  9. 9
    To your taste, after removing the flatfish, simmer the sauce until it thickens a little and pour the sauce over the flatfishes.

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