Small Candied Sardines (Using a Pressure Cooker)

It's my family's favorite recipe.An umeboshi plum is enough to get rid of the fishy smells. Use 2 if you want a stronger umeboshi taste. If you like it sweet and salty, add 1 tablespoon each of sugar and soy sauce. If you prefer it light, reduce the amount of sugar. You can also double the ingredients. I was selected as a monitor for Takara brand's "Cooking Sake" and found the taste to be much richer when I started using it. For just enough to cover the ingredients in a (18 cm [7.1 in] in diameter) pressure cooker.. Recipe by Reontei

Sardines were on sale, so I decided to give them a ginger and soy sauce flavor, like canned sardines.I based this on a recipe I found in a cookbook for pressure cookers. However, in that recipe, the bones were too hard to eat, so I revised it to make them softer, as well as the flavor!Adjust the amount of soy sauce to your liking! Use small-sized sardines. If you use larger ones, add about 15-20 minutes to the pressure-cooking time!Buying fish that have already been beheaded and gutted would make the process even easier!Finally, when simmering, be careful not to let it burn!Adding 1-2 tablespoons of vinegar to the ingredients is also delicious. Recipe by lismeg

I cooked these in a pressure cooker until they were tender to the bones so that my fish-loving daughter could eat them. Since vinegar softens the bones, I used black vinegar. Adding umeboshi got rid of their fishy smell.To prep the fish, all you need to do is gut and rinse them. After that, just put everything in the pressure cooker and cook -- it's very easy. For 4 servings. Recipe by Satomiwa

I came up with this way to get plenty of calcium.I use sweet soy sauce from western Japan. If using a saltier soy sauce, it might be best to slightly reduce the amount. Also, I use medium-sized umeboshi. Be careful not to burn it while simmering. Recipe by Gagarin

I created this recipe because I wanted to make candied sardines easily.I love cooking with my 3 year old daughter. This is a recipe you can make with your kids, too! Recipe by Kodomoto Tsukuru Uchigohan

I got hints from various recipes and I made this dish to suit our family's taste. For 4-5 servings. Recipe by Sachirepi

Sardines simmered with ginger are tasty, but you can get tired of them after a while; so, I was inspired by a recipe for mackerel miso simmer to polish it up.I used sardines that were about 12-13 cm long. Recipe by Raby

The owner of a bar in Shibuya taught me this recipe. Thank you! Recipe by zzzants

I tried a fish dish.Once you put the sardines in the pot, do not touch the fish often, just pour the cooking liquid over using a ladle or a spoon. Cook without a lid. The sardines are fresh if you can see around 7 dots clearly in a single horizontal line on the body. Recipe by Manmarumauchan

We often cook this dish in a pressure cooker.The key might be to add the ginger and umeboshi . Recipe by Komatsuta

I was told how to make this from a shop that always has delicious homemade oil sardines.These also taste good if you add thyme or basil. Add your favorite herbs and adjust the amount of garlic, chili pepper, and pepper to your tastes. Olive oil is kind of strong, so you can use soybean oil or vegetable oil if you prefer. You can also add the oil from this recipe to pasta or salad, or even stir-fries. They will store in the refrigerator for 1 month, but please try to eat them quickly. Store in the freezer. Recipe by bellelinko

Make some tazkuri for your New Year's feast! They are an auspicious dish.Origin:Sardines used to be used as fertilizer for top grade rice fields, so the people would eat them and pray for an abundant harvest. The other name for this dish, "gomame" (or "fifty thousand rice grains"), comes from the fact that the sardines used as fertilizer bring an abundant harvest (based on information I found on Wikipedia).-If you fry the sardines for too long, they will become bitter, so be careful.-Instead of seeing it as pan-frying them, think of it as evaporating the moisture!-If you let them simmer for too long in Step 4, they will become tough after they cool. This is why you should leave about 1-1.5 tablespoons of liquid. Recipe by Cooking S Papa