Budget Set Meal: Atsuage with Meat Miso
Crisp-grilled thick fried tofu topped with plenty of sweet-savory meat miso. The 'Rice Companion' meat miso works as is.
Ingredients
- Atsuage (thick fried tofu)1
- Sweet-savory meat miso (the Rice-Companion recipe, or 50g ground pork + 2 tsp each miso and sugar)3 tbsp
- Vegetable oil1 tsp
- Green onionto taste
- Shredded cabbage & cherry tomatoesto taste
- Cooked rice1 bowl
- [miso soup] Tofu, dried wakame, miso, dashi (instant is fine)1 serving
- Pickles (takuan, etc.)to taste
Directions
- Pour hot water over the atsuage to remove surface oil and cut into quarters.
- Heat oil in a pan and grill all sides of the atsuage until browned.
- If you have no meat miso, fry the ground pork and cook it down with miso and sugar until the liquid is gone.
- Top the atsuage with meat miso, scatter green onion and add cabbage and cherry tomatoes.
- Arrange with rice, miso soup and pickles on a tray.