January 31, 2012
Inari and Sunomono salad!
Sunomono: I used three of those tiny cucumbers and sliced them really thin (translucent when possible), then added a quarter teaspoon of salt, a half tablespoon of sugar, a tablespoon of mirin, and three tablespoons of rice vinegar. If you let it sit in the fridge and marinate for a bit it’s even better. Sesame seeds would have been good on there, in retrospect.
Sushi Rice: I made 2 cups (uncooked) rice in the rice cooker. In another bowl I mixed up 4T rice vinegar, 2.5T sugar, 2t salt, 2T mirin, then mixed it in the rice. It’s SO GOOD.
The Inari pockets (which are sweetened deep-fried tofu for those who didn’t know) are from Pacific Mercantile, my favorite Asian market.