Japanese Food & Cooking by Stuart Griffin

Author:Stuart Griffin
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 0-8048-0299-8
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing

Helmet-Roasted

Ingredients:

16 ounces sliced beef (32 for heavy eaters)

1 big bunch of leeks

16 to 20 mushrooms

2 large stalks burdock

½ pound spinach leaves

8 fat onions

8 to 12 pieces of kormyaku, a tuberous root paste

8 to 12 fat slices of white potato

1 cup dashi

A sauce for four individual bowls composed of 1 cup shoyu, ½ cup sake, 1/8 cup vinegar, 2 tablespoons sugar, 1 teaspoon salt, and 4 pinches grey or red pepper.

4 saucers grated radish

Preparation: Use a convex-shaped grill, perforated with many holes and fired by gas or a large charcoal pot underneath. First wipe the grill surface thoroughly with fat. Then, as it sizzles, lay the strips of meat painted quickly with dashi on the grill face for cooking. Meat strips will be followed by vegetables cut into suitable lengths: the leeks, mushrooms, onion slices, potato slices, spinach leaves and konnyaku squares. Each may be painted quickly with dashi taken from a nearby receptacle.

The sauce into which the meat and vegetables are dipped before eating is served in accompanying saucers. The ingredients mentioned above will generally suffice for the needs of four average people. One should mix the shoyu, vinegar, sugar, salt, and sake to one's individual taste, and shredded radishes, a drop or two of lemon juice, a sprinkling of red or gray pepper, or the Japanese wasabi, green-colored horseradish, may be mixed with this sauce. These ingredients, at any event, should be on hand to permit the guest to select what he wishes.

When the sauce is ready, the guest may take the roasted strips of meat and vegetables from the grill surface. These are dipped into the prepared sauce and eaten.

Any hot iron slab, fired by gas or charcoal, will suffice, although the best results are obtained by using a convex grill of stainless steel, perforated with many round holes through which cooking gases may seep.

The other dishes in the roasted food range will be taken up in the next chapter.

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