Hello everybody, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, inari-zushi. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Inarizushi is a kind of sushi or rice ball. Sushi rice is stuffed in seasoned Aburaage tofu pouches. Inarizushi is technically sushi, but it is not something you order at nice sushi restaurants. It is easily found at supermarket delis, but, as you know, home made is the best.

Inari-zushi is one of the most favored of recent trending foods on earth. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions every day. Inari-zushi is something which I have loved my whole life. They are nice and they look wonderful.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have inari-zushi using 9 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Inari-zushi:

1. Make ready Sushi Rice *cooked from 180ml x 3 cups uncooked rice
2. Take 12 pieces 'Inari-zushi no Moto' (Seasoned Abura-age)
3. Make ready How to cook Abura-age from scratch
4. Take *Note: If you want to cook Abura-age by yourself, here is the list of the ingredients
5. Take 6 sheets Abura-age (thin fried tofu)
6. Prepare 1 cup Dashi Stock *OR 1 cup Water & 1/2 teaspoon Dashi Powder
7. Prepare 4 tablespoons Mirin
8. Take 4 tablespoons Sugar
9. Take 4 tablespoons Soy Sauce

If using, toast the sesame seeds in a dry frying pan, and mix into the sushi rice. Inari Sushi is sushi rice in a pouch made of seasoned aburaage (deep fried thin tofu). It is sweet but it complements the sourness of sushi rice. It is quite simple to make Inari Sushi, particularly when you use store-bought seasoned aburaage.

Instructions to make Inari-zushi:

1. Cut Abura-age in half and open them carefully. Pour very hot water over the Abura-age to remove oil from them.
2. Place all ingredients in a saucepan and cook Abura-age until the sauce thickens. Let them cool in the sauce.
3. Alternatively use ready-to-use 'Inari-zushi no Moto'. I recommend to empty the contents into a saucepan to heat, then cool. You can alter the flavour by adding more soy sauce or sugar.
4. Cook Sushi Rice. See my 'Sushi Rice' recipe at https://cookpad.com/uk/recipes/1467168-sushi-rice
5. Make small Sushi Rice balls and wrap with bags of seasoned Abura-age.

It is sweet but it complements the sourness of sushi rice. It is quite simple to make Inari Sushi, particularly when you use store-bought seasoned aburaage. Among the various sushi recipes, Inari Sushi is one of the easiest. Inari-zushi, thin deep-fried tofu pouches filled with sushi rice, is popular throughout Japan, enjoyed on picnics and other outings. It differs slightly by region, with shapes from oblong to triangular forms, and filling variations that include adding sesame seeds or lotus root pickled in sweetened vinegar to the rice.

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