Recipes

Shrimp sweet potato/Sakura shrimp

Sakura Shrimp Scented Shrimp Potato Rice

  • Vegetables
  • Japanese style

Ingredients (For 5 people)

Rice 3 cups
Ebiimo (Grand potato) 10 individual
Dashi soup 650 tsp
Dried cherry shrimp 50g
Seisuke Donko 4
Komatsuna 1/2 bundle

Method

Prepare to cook by placing the polished rice, peeled and cut into bite-sized pieces of shrimp sweet potato and sakura shrimp in a pot.

Add dashi stock (1% more) to ❶, season with soy sauce, salt, etc. (not listed), and bring to boil.

Cut the Seisuke donko and komatsuna into bite-sized pieces, and stir-fry them with 1 and 1/2 tablespoons each of sesame oil, sake, and soy sauce (not listed in ingredients), until they are steamed in step ❷.

Add ❸ to steamed ❷ and mix to complete.

Key Points

This recipe is also proposed in food education classes at local elementary and junior high schools. Everyone please try it.

*Recipe provided by: Kosuke Fukada, creator of the Fujinokuni food capital

Recommended ingredients from Shizuoka Prefecture

Ebi potato

Ebi potato

Japan's number one production area. The baby potatoes are carefully piled into the soil over and over again by hand to curve them into striped patterns and the shape of shrimp. The meat is fine and is prized for use in high-class cuisine.