Sweet Glazed Sardines (Iwashi no Kanroni)

Name: Sweet Glazed Sardines (Iwashi no Kanroni)
Total time: 2700 s
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 6 whole sardines; 3 Tbsp soy sauce; 3 Tbsp mirin (sweet sake); 3 Tbsp sugar; 3 Tbsp sake (plus 1 Tbsp for step 1); 4 Tbsp honey

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Japan

Kanroni is a Japanese “treat” that involves stewing ingredients such as chestnuts, fruit or fish in a sweet sauce made with soy sauce, sugar, and mirin. Sardine kanroni is great served with a bowl of hot rice.

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Ingredients

45 mins

4 servings

6whole sardines
3 Tbspsoy sauce
3 Tbspmirin (sweet sake)
3 Tbspsugar
3 Tbspsake (plus 1 Tbsp for step 1)
4 Tbsphoney

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Steps

45 mins

1

Remove the head and clean the sardines. Layout on a plate and sprinkle with about 1 tablespoon of sake. Let sit for 5 minutes then chop fish into smaller pieces.
2

Pour 4 cups of water into a pressure cooker and add the sardines. Close the lid and heat on medium. Once the pressure is on, turn to lower heat and cook for one minute. After the pressure has released, remove the sardines and discard the hot water.
3

Add the soy sauce, mirin , sugar, sake and honey to pressure cooker. Bring to a boil and add the sardines. Re-pressurize the cooker and cook on low heat for one minute.
4

When the pressure has released again, remove lid and cook on low until the sauce has thicken and most liquid has evaporated. To avoid burning, occasionally shake the cooker to mix.
5

Put the cooked sardines in a container and leave them in the refrigerator for a day. This allows them to become more flavorful.