How to Make Appetizing Abura-age & Carrot Takikomi Gohan

Abura-age & Carrot Takikomi Gohan. Abura-age (油揚げ), is a Japanese food product made from soybeans. Abura-age is often used to wrap inari-zushi (稲荷寿司), and is added to miso soup. It is also added to udon noodle dishes, which are called kitsune-udon because of legends that foxes like deep-fried.

Deep fried tofu, or abura-age, is used in soups, one pot cookery, noodle dishes, and in many other ways. It can also be delicious all by itself as a topping on a bowl of rice (domburi). Deep fried tofu can be purchased at most Asian food stores, but it is easily made at home, and all that you'll need is a wok for the deep frying and a colander for rinsing and draining. You can have Abura-age & Carrot Takikomi Gohan using 9 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Abura-age & Carrot Takikomi Gohan

1. Prepare 2 cups of (*180ml cup) Japanese Short Grain Rice.
2. Prepare 1 of Abura-age (Fried Thin Tofu).
3. You need 1 of small Carrot.
4. It's 400 ml of Dashi Stock *OR Water and 1 teaspoon Dashi Powder.
5. It's 1/2 teaspoon of Salt.
6. It's 1 tablespoons of Soy Sauce.
7. Prepare 1 tablespoon of Sake (Rice Wine).
8. You need 1 of Spring Onion *finely chopped.
9. You need of Toasted Sesame Seeds.

Aburaage, also called Usuage, is thin deep fried tofu. It has a mild soy flavor and a spongy texture and absorbs seasonings well. You can open it up and make a pouch to use for Inarizushi or cut thinly to use for Miso soup, and it is also a main ingredient for Kitsune Udon. It often comes packaged as squares or rectangles.

Abura-age & Carrot Takikomi Gohan instructions

1. Wrap Abura-age with paper towel and warm in the microwave. Then press it to remove excess oil if required. This process is optional..
2. Cut Abura-age and Carrot into small pieces. Today I cut Carrot into strips using a vegetable slicer..
3. Wash Rice by stirring it thoroughly in water with your hand and drain the water. Repeat this a few more times until water flows through clear..
4. Place it into the rice cooker’s inner pot and add Dashi Stock, Salt, Soy Sauce and Sake (Rice Wine). Add extra Water, if necessary, to make up to the 2-cups-marking. Gently stir..
5. Place Abura-age and Carrot pieces over the rice evenly. Press ‘COOK’ button to start cooking. When the rice is cooked, let it steamed for 10 minutes. Then loosen and mix gently..
6. Sprinkle with some finely chopped Spring Onion and Toasted Sesame Seeds on top and enjoy..

These puffy pouches of deep-fried tofu are so good braised in a dashi-sugar-shoyu-sake mixture. Serve prepared aburaage as a side dish, stuffed with seasoned rice, or in bowls of hot udon. Buying tofu is a lot cheaper, so I tried making some aburaage from scratch. Basically, frying these on low heat will cause them to. We work hard to protect your security and privacy.