This dish is grilled eel over rice with sweet caramelized glazed sauce; it can be served with sesame seeds, eggs and chopped green onions for garnishing.
The homemade unagi sauce can be stored in the refrigerator for a few months and can be used it for many other dishes like chicken, beef, pork, sea food and vegetables. So prepare a batch of the sauce for other dishes.
Ingredients:
1-2 pre-cooked Unagi fillet package (7 oz)
1 Tbsp of cooking oil
A bowl of steamed rice
Garnishing:
2 eggs: (Whisk eggs, sprinkle some salt, pepper and some Mirin cooking wine and pour into a pan, then cook like a plain omelet, then slice it. Set aside)
Some sesame seeds
Some Chopped green onions
Kabayaki sauce/Unagi sauce:
1/2 cup of Soy sauce
1/2 cup of Mirin cooking wine
¼ cup of Sake
¼ cup of Sugar
Steps:
In a small saucepan, add all the ingredients, stir it constantly and bring it to boil for 5 minutes on medium heat, then when you see the bubbles around the pan, simmer for 5 minutes on low heat or until it gets thickened or condensed. Turn off the heat and set aside. This can be stored in the refrigerator for several weeks.
(Or simply mix 4 Tbsp of store bought Unagi sauce and 4 Tbsp of Mirim cooking wine. Bring it to boil for 5 minutes on medium heat or until it gets thickened.)
Baking: Grilled Eel-
Steps:
Preheat the oven to broil
Cut the Unagi fillet into 1-to-2-inch size or just the whole Unagi fillet
Prepare a baking tray lined with foil, spread some oil on the foil
Place unagi in the middle rack or the middle part of the oven in the baking tray, and broil for 3-5 minutes or until you see the bubbling on top of the unagi (Do NOT walk away from the oven, stay close and make sure it doesn’t get burnt).
Remove from the oven and brush the sauce on top of the unagi and broil it for 60 seconds or until you see the bubbling on top of the unagi (Do NOT walk away from the oven, stay close and make sure it doesn’t get burnt).
Remove from the oven and turn off the heat.
Serve with a bowl of steamed rice.
Drizzle some sauce on top of the rice
Place sliced unagi or the whole unagi fillet on top of the rice
Drizzle plenty of sauce on top of the unagi
Sprinkle sesame seeds on top of unagi for garnishing
Finish with some sliced egg omelet on the side of the bowl and sprinkle some chopped green onions on top.
Enjoy and don’t forget to share 😊
