Candied Dried Baby Sardines (Tazukuri) for New Year's

Name: Candied Dried Baby Sardines (Tazukuri) for New Year's
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 40 grams Small dried sardines (Japanese anchovies); 1 tbsp Sesame seeds; 1 tbsp ○Soy sauce; 1 tbsp ○Sugar; 2 tbsp ○Sake; 1 tbsp ○Honey (or starch syrup); 1 tbsp ○Water; 2 tsp ○Vegetable oil

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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

Make some tazkuri for your New Year's feast! They are an auspicious dish.

cookpad.japan @cookpad_jp

Make some tazkuri for your New Year's feast! They are an auspicious dish.

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Ingredients

40 gramsSmall dried sardines (Japanese anchovies)
1 tbspSesame seeds
1 tbsp○Soy sauce
1 tbsp○Sugar
2 tbsp○Sake
1 tbsp○Honey (or starch syrup)
1 tbsp○Water
2 tsp○Vegetable oil

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Steps

1

Prepare the sardines. They should be about 3-4 cm long.
2

Pan-fry the sardines and sesame seeds in a frying pan without any oil. Use very low heat and make sure they don't burn.
3

Put the ○ ingredients into a saucepan and boil until decreased by half.
4

Add the sardines and sesame seeds to the saucepan and simmer over low heat until only a small amount of liquid remains. You should leave about 1-1.5 tablespoons of the liquid.
5

Cool the contents of the saucepan as you stir. Arrange on a plate and it's done!