Salmon
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.