Miso Mackerel Don. Great recipe for Miso Mackerel Don. There is one dish that I have been very fond of since my childhood. It's a dish of mackerel simmered in sweet miso sauce.

Make Miso Sauce by mixing all ingredients in a small bowl. Mackerel can be bony, so use tweezers or needle-nose pliers to remove any pin bones. Today's Oishiy recipe is '' Saba Misoni Simmered Mackerel with Miso''. You can cook Miso Mackerel Don using 11 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Miso Mackerel Don

It's 1 of Canned Mackerel in Brine (*about 115g).
Prepare 1/4 of Onion *sliced.
Prepare 1 teaspoon of Oil.
It's of Spring Onion *finely Sliced, optional.
It's of Freshly Cooked Rice 1 serving.
It's of Miso Sauce.
It's 1 tablespoon of Miso.
It's 1 teaspoon of Sugar.
It's 1 tablespoon of Sake OR Mirin.
Prepare 1 teaspoon of Grated Ginger.
Prepare 1 teaspoon of Soy Sauce *optional, depends on the type of Miso.

Mackerel is popular fish in Japan can easily buy in supermarket. Here is how you achieve it. There is one dish that I have been very fond of since my childhood. It's a dish of mackerel simmered in sweet miso sauce.

Miso Mackerel Don instructions

Drain the Canned Mackerel and remove the brine. Make Miso Sauce by mixing all ingredients in a small bowl..
Heat small amount of Oil in a frying pan over a medium heat, cook sliced Onion until transparent..
Add Mackerel and the sauce and simmer over a low heat for a minute or so, and let all well combined..
Half fill a bowl with freshly cooked rice and cover it with the Mackerel mixture. Sprinkle some finely sliced Spring Onion over and enjoy..

Sadly I can't cook it here in Melbourne because it is too hard to find fresh mackerel. Mackerel fillets cooked in miso flavoured sauce - this is the best way of cooking mackerel. Simmered Mackerel in Miso is full of flavour and goes so well with rice. Simmered Mackerel in Miso is called 'saba no misoni' (鯖の味噌煮). The miso is equally, if not more strong in flavor, and does a good job showing the mackerel who's boss.