How to Make Yummy Our Regular Osechi Item--Kamaboko Fish Cakes (Mom's Taste)

How to Make Yummy Our Regular Osechi Item--Kamaboko Fish Cakes (Mom's Taste)

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Our Regular Osechi Item--Kamaboko Fish Cakes (Mom's Taste). Kamaboko is Japanese fish cake, which is an essential ingredient and food in Japanese cuisine. Kamaboko may also be dipped in other sauces as well. Kamaboko slices are also enjoyed as is, in traditional New Year's dishes such as osechi ryori.

Our Regular Osechi Item--Kamaboko Fish Cakes (Mom's Taste) They are kamaboko (fish cakes), blocks of steamed fish flesh. In the past, when there was no refrigeration, making kamaboko was a way to keep fresh fish a little longer. In the West, the word surimi is well known, but that means pounded flesh and what is sold. You can cook Our Regular Osechi Item--Kamaboko Fish Cakes (Mom's Taste) using 3 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Our Regular Osechi Item--Kamaboko Fish Cakes (Mom's Taste)

  1. Prepare 1 of Kamaboko.
  2. You need 1 of as much (to taste) Salmon roe.
  3. Prepare 6 of Shiso leaves.

There are many kinds of kamaboko—aka fish cake—to choose from in Japan. Kamaboko cakes are also a popular gift item and an essential part of osechi-ryōri, traditional Japanese New Year foods. Interestingly, in its earliest known history, when white fish was extremely expensive, kamaboko cakes were considered a real treat, traditionally prepared only for special. Kamaboko is the cake of the sea.

Our Regular Osechi Item--Kamaboko Fish Cakes (Mom's Taste) step by step

  1. Slice the kamaboko into 10-12 cuts. Down the center of each slice, make a slit 2/3 to the base. Cut the shiso leaves in half..
  2. Press the shiso into the slit opening, and top with salmon roe..
  3. Here they are served in my New Year's Feast in 2010..
  4. And again in 2011..
  5. Then, in 2012..
  6. ...and 2013!.

Learn how to eat these fish cakes and where they came from. In the early days of kamaboko history, white fish was very expensive and the fish cake dish was considered a feast. Thus, it was used as a special gift or the type of food served at celebratory feasts. Osechi-ryōri (御節料理, お節料理 or おせち) are traditional Japanese New Year foods. See recipes for Datemaki for Osechi Ryori, Japanese New Year Food too. kamaboko, steamed fish paste.