Dinner · 30 min · japanese

Unagi Don

Weeknight-friendly Japanese cooking: Unagi Don comes together in 30 minutes with unagi fillets, rice, and not much else. It is weeknight cooking that still hits your targets — 36 grams of protein per serving. It scales cleanly if you are cooking for more than one.

Ingredients

• 1 lb Unagi fillets
• 3 cups Rice
• 0.25 cup Soy sauce
• 0.25 cup Mirin
• 2 tbsp Sake
• 3 tbsp Sugar
• 1 tsp Sansho pepper
• 2 tbsp Pickled ginger
• 2 Scallions
• 2 sheets Nori

Steps

1. Simmer the soy, mirin, sake, and sugar 5 minutes into a thick, glossy tare. It should coat a spoon.
2. Brush the unagi generously with tare and broil 4 minutes until caramelized at the edges, brushing once more halfway.
3. Mound hot rice in deep bowls and drizzle with a spoonful of tare — the rice underneath is half the pleasure.
4. Lay the unagi over the rice and brush with more tare.
5. Dust with sansho pepper and top with scallions, nori, and pickled ginger. Rich, sweet-savory, and worth every penny.

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