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Chirashi with miso salmon

Kenji Morimoto's chirashi rice bowl with pickled mushrooms and lotus root makes a decadent weekend feast.

Ingredients:

  • 350g/12oz mixed fresh mushrooms, such as shimeji, enoki, shiitake, cut into bite-sized pieces
  • 3 tbsp shoyu (japanese soy sauce)
  • 3 tbsp mirin
  • 3 tbsp sake
  • 1 whole dried red chilli, cut into thin strips
  • 100g/3�oz lotus root, peeled, halved, thinly sliced and soaked in water for 15�30 minutes
  • 65ml/2fl oz apple cider vinegar
  • 3 tbsp caster sugar
  • pinch salt
  • few beetroot peelings
  • 4 tbsp rice vinegar
  • 2 tbsp caster sugar
  • pinch salt
  • 300g/10�oz uncooked sushi rice
  • 200g/7oz edamame beans, defrosted
  • 2 tbsp miso
  • 2 tbsp mirin
  • 1 tbsp shoyu
  • 1 tsp toasted sesame oil
  • 2 skin-on salmon fillets (roughly 150�170g/5��6oz per fillet)
  • 3 free-range eggs
  • few perilla leaves, thinly sliced
  • small bunch chives, thinly sliced
  • few sheets nori, thinly sliced
  • pickled lotus root (from above)
  • 100g/3�oz pickled mushrooms (from above)

Directions:

  • To make the mushrooms, fry them in a dry pan on low for 5�7 minutes until cooked through.
  • Add the shoyu, mirin and sake to the mushrooms and simmer for a few minutes. Leave to cool, then put into a clean airtight container. Keep in the fridge and leave for at least a few hours, but ideally overnight.
  • To make the pickled lotus root, dissolve the vinegar, sugar and salt in a saucepan over a medium heat. Add the lotus root and beetroot peelings, then bring to a low simmer for 2�3 minutes. Take off the heat, allow to cool and then transfer into a clean airtight container. Keep in the fridge and best to eat after overnight.
  • To make the rice seasoning, dissolve the sugar and salt in the vinegar over a low heat. Set aside.
  • To make the rice, steam the rice with 300ml/10fl oz water in a lidded saucepan or rice cooker using the packet instructions. Once cooked, decant into a large bowl and season with the vinegar mixture while simultaneously fanning it to cool it down.
  • Once it cools slightly, add the edamame and pickled mushrooms to the rice. Continue to mix gently.
  • To make the miso salmon, mix the miso, mirin, shoyu and toasted sesame oil in a bowl. Then marinate the fish, using cling film to compact it to maximise surface area. Marinate the fish for 2�3 hours in the fridge.
  • Once marinated, gently remove the residual marinade and transfer to a baking tray. Preheat the oven to 200C/180C Fan/Gas 6 and bake for 15�20 minutes depending on size of fillet.
  • To make the omelette, crack the eggs into a bowl and whisk together.
  • Heat a non-stick frying pan on a low-medium heat and pour in the whisked egg. Cook undisturbed for 3�4 minutes and, once firm to the touch, flip and cook for another 1�2 minutes. If you struggle to flip the egg, continue cooking it until it releases from the pan more easily. Move the cooked omelette onto a chopping board and let it cool slightly, before slices into thin pieces.
  • To serve, place the rice onto a large serving platter or into individual bowls. Add a generous sprinkling of the pickled lotus root, pickled mushrooms, omelette, edamame, perilla leaves, chives, and lastly the nori.