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Japanese Breakfast

Japanese Breakfast

A complete Japanese breakfast with teriyaki salmon, sesame salad with cabbage and cucumber, miso soup with tofu and komatsuna, and crispy nori rice chips. A balanced and nutritious meal perfect for starting the day.

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40 min · 2 servings

SoyFishSesame

Ingredients

  • 2 fillet salmon
  • 1 pinch salt
  • 1 tbsp soy sauce
  • 1 tbsp mirin
  • 2 tbsp canola oil
  • 50 g cabbage
  • 0.5 cucumber
  • 2 tbsp white sesame
  • 1 tsp sugar
  • 1 bundle komatsuna
  • 0.25 tofu
  • 200 ml dashi soup stock
  • 1 tbsp miso
  • 200 g japanese rice
  • 2 sheet nori seaweed

Steps

  1. Put salt over salmon and wait for 5 minutes.
  2. Take out excess liquid from salmon using kitchen paper.
  3. Put salmon in a container and add soy sauce and mirin to season the fish. Wait for another 30 minutes.
  4. Heat frying pan with medium heat and pour canola oil.
  5. Add salmon fillet and sautee with lid on.
  6. When bottom side gets brown color, flip them.
  7. Pour leftover sauce in the pan.
  8. Sautee another few minutes. Done.
  9. Cut cabbage and cucumber into bite-size pieces. Steam them until soft.
  10. Grind roasted white sesame until powder.
  11. Squeeze the veggies well and put in a bowl. Add sesame powder, soy sauce, and sugar. Then gently mix all of them. Done.
  12. Warm dashi soup stock in a pot.
  13. Add bite-sized tofu and komatsuna and boil them.
  14. Add miso paste and dissolve it. Done.
  15. Place seaweed on the table and spread rice thinly to half.
  16. Fold seaweed in half and make it thin.
  17. Cut with scissors to make a bite size. Done.

Nutrition

Calories
480
Protein
28g
Fat
16g
Carbs
58g
Iron
3.5mg
Calcium
180mg

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