Marinated shiso (perilla)
Shiso (perilla) marinated in soy sauce. Serve it with rice alongside any dish.
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Ingredients
- 15 shiso leaves
- 1 tbsp soy sauce
- 2 tbsp water
- 2 tsp sesame oil
- 1 small clove of garlic (grated)
- 1/2 tsp sugar
- 1/2 tsp dashi powder
- Chilli
- Sesame seeds
- Bonito flakes
Instructions
- Mix all the ingredients in a small bowl. You can skip the chili if you don’t like it spicy, or on the contrary, add more according to your taste.
- Katsuobushi is shaved dried tuna also known as bonito flakes. It’s used to make dashi stock, for example. I used about this much. If you don’t have it, you can omit it.
- Wash the shiso leaves and start stacking them gradually. Place the first leaf and add a spoon of marinade on top, then another leaf, and again some marinade, and continue like this.
- And it’s done. Store in the refrigerator in a well-sealed container.
