●KOAJI NO NANBAN-ZUKE-
Lightly Marinated Horse mackerel
- Nanban style

<Ingredients(for two)>
8 small horse mackerel
Nanban-vinegar:
1/3 cup rice vinegar
1/3 cup sugar
1/3 cup soy sauce
1 1/3 cups water
1 konbu (sea kelp) 10cm long
1 teaspoon red hot pepper (cut into thin round slices)
flour
oil for frying
1 cucumber
1 tomato
1)Scale, remove the gill, gut and clean the fish. For
gutting, insert the knife
under the pectoral fin and cut toward the head. Then
remove the inside.
After rinsing with water wipe dry the fish.
2)Brush both sides of the fish with flour and shake
off excess amounts.
Then deep fry until it is golden in a oil heated to
the temperature of 160
degrees Celsius.
3)Mix the ingredients for the nanban marinade. And place
the fried horse
mackerel in the liquid.
4)The cucumber, and cut in half lengthwise then into
bite size pieces. Cut the
tomatoes into blocks of different shape and sizes.
The top picture represents the final product of this
recipe, "Lightly Marinated
Horse Mackerel".
The pictures below shows the steps in the recipe where
the horse mackerel
is getting deep fried.


