Ginger Soy Simmered Sanddabs (nizakana)

This is an authentic Japanese recipe, straight from my Mother-in-Law's recipe box (well, it was in her head anyway, and she told me how to do it). She lives on the Inland Sea of Japan in Hiroshima prefecture, and makes the best fried oysters in the world. Anyway, this respie is really simple, fast, easy clean-up, and delicious, and it garnered me WAF points up the ying-yang.

All you need to do is gut and gill a smaller sized fish (sanddabs are a fantastic choice, but surf perch, or even fresh water bluegill would be great as well). scale it if need be. Either use a sacue pan big enough to fit the fish, or chunk it so that it fits in a single layer.

In the saucepan, add the following:
1/2 cup water
1/4 cup mirin (sweet cooking sake)
1/4 cup dry sake
4 Tbs soy sauce
4 slices fresh ginger

If the liquid will not just cover the fish, you can double the amounts.

Put in the fish, cover, and bring to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer/boil for 15 minutes, ladling the broth frequently and generously over the fish.

Serve with rice and miso soup.

The pics below tell the story.  

That looks DELICIOUS!!!!!!!

Thank you for sharing!

Sincerely,

Jim

OMG, that looks AWESOME!!!

  drooling I love any cooking that involve soy sauce! Arigato for adding some of my recipe!

Obkook -

Really love this recipe. Be sure to thank your mother-in-law for me. Cooked it exactly as you suggested except only for 5 minutes and steamed some baby bok choy the last 2 minutes for a one dish meal.

Scott

Wow

I still have some sanddabs in the freezer.  Will give it a try.  Thanks for the recipe and pictures Peter.

That looks delicious. Sonny, let me know when it's ready. I'll be over.

Jedmo

Scott, I love the idea of the baby bok-choy! I'm going to definitely do that the next time I fix this.

Sonny, would love to hear how it turns out for you.

Peter

The family just tried your recipe with bluegills   It is now in my recipe book to stay.  Thanks for a way to enjoy some bok choy

Tom

Wow that is what I needed for a new fish Recipe thanks 

I'm going to try it looks good.  Your kid is so cute I didn't even see the big fish in the pic till a second look. Andy

Good recipe but try to add black bean sauce next time, you never know you might like it too. 



Kiel

got to try that recipe.
got to catch them sand dabs too