How’d it Go?

I dont like fish that much so this really wasnt an exciting dish for me, but in the show they do say that it tastes more meaty than fishy so I was ready to see if thats true or not. Its not. This very much tastes like a mackerel burger, saying that, I did think it tasted nice, just quite fishy. If you’re into fish this is pretty bangin’. The soup isn’t overly squid-y, its a pretty nice soup, it does have a faint squid taste but the egg helps round it out to a more mellow, nice flavour.

The Yukihira-Brand Kitchen-Clearing Mackerel Hamburger Set is worth making in my opinion, if you like mackerel. The sauce is also surprisingly tasty, its made from the brine from the mackerel can and some ponzu sauce, it has a faint fishiness to it, not unpleasant though. The rice was just plain old white rice cooked in a rice cooker, nothing special there.

How’d I Make It?

So this is a really quick and easy recipe, which is fitting seeing as its supposed to be thrown together from things in the cupboard. I started by making the burger, which is a drained tin of mackerel, mixed with half a finely diced onion, panko breadcrumbs and an egg. Then onto the soup base which is dried squid reconstituted in water with salt. Sauce is next, all it is is the brine from the tin simmered down with some ponzu sauce and thickened with potato starch, nothing fancy so far.

Start frying off the burger, while its cooking off whisk up an egg and an egg yolk in a bowl to add to the soup. To make the soup you bring it up to a simmer then cut the heat and stir it clockwise, when youve got a little whirlpool going add in the beaten egg and stir a couple times counter clockwise, this creates the ribbons of egg in the soup. At this point everything should be ready, so plate it up, top the burger with the sauce and grab a bowl of rice and soup and enjoy!

Ingredients

Canned mackerel in brine

Panko breadcrumbs

Eggs

Dried squid

Ponzu sauce

Potato starch

Onion

Rice