ikura ~salmon eggs marinated with soy sauce~

Now is the best season for getting raw salmon eggs in Japan. If you get fresh salmon eggs, you can easiliy make ikura.
Please pay attention to select fresh fresh salmon eggs.

Ingredients

 2parts of salmon raw eggs

for marinated sauce    4:4:1= soy sauce: sake: mirin   and    add    dashi  ( as you like  )
1/4 cup (60cc )      soy sauce
1/4 cup (60cc )      sake*1
1Table spoon of (15cc) mirin*2
100cc dashi*3

How to make
 1. To make marinated sauce
     Boil soy sauce , sake and mirin for the flavor and add dashi.
     To cool it naturally. (Please wait until it becomes cool. If you are hurry, you can cool it in   the refrigerator.)
2.  Pour boiled water on part of salmon raw eggs  to tear skin off easily.

    

3. Divide it into eggs and skin. ( we use only eggs.)

 

 

4. Mix divided raw salmon eggs and marinated sauce and preserve it in the refrigerator. You can keep

   it for 4-5 days in the refrigerator.

Ikura is match for boiled rice!!  Also we use ikura for ikura sushi!!

 

*1 sake  http://global.rakuten.com/en/store/shunsake/item/naranusanshuset_900/

*2 mirin http://global.rakuten.com/en/store/kinmei/item/sannnennjukuseimirin500/

*3 dashi http://japanesehomecooking-okaasan.blogspot.com/2011_06_01_archive.html