Mock broiled eel

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Mock broiled eel

This is macrobiotic food.I cooked the broiled eel by tofu.It was originally made as an imitated food for meat for a vegetarian dish (mock dish). Mock broiled eelis said that a priest wanting to eat an eel devises it and cooked it.This is very healthy.

Ingredients

• 350g film tofu
• 100g Chinese yam
• 100g lotus roots
• 3 tbsp potato starch
• Salt, to your taste
• 12 (4 x 1.3 in) toasted and seasoned laver
• 2 tbsp (30ml) soy sauce
• 2 tbsp (30ml) mirin(sweet sake)
• 2 tbsp (30ml) sake
• 1 tbsp sugar
• Salad oil,parsley

Directions

1. Firmly wrap the tofu with a paper towel.Warm up it in the microwave for 3 minutes and drain in a strainer.



2. Strain the tofu by spoon.



3. Grate the lotus roots and Chinese yam.Add the potato starch and salt.Mix them.



4. Paint with tofu(step3) on toasted and seasoned laver.Heat the flying oil to 170 degrees and fly them.Form be careful not to collapse then.Model it on an eel.



5. When sides is golden brown,turn over, and cook the other side until golden brown.Place it on a rack, without stacking, and let the excess oil drain.



6. Combine the sake,soy sauce,mirin(sweet sake),sugar into a flying pan and bring to a boil.Put it with the toasted and seasoned laver side down and sauce it well.



7. Place the Mock broiled eel on bowl of rice and sprinkle the parsley.



Please drain water off tofu well.