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Tai no Tamba-mushi Sea Bream with Chestnuts

Name: Tai no Tamba-mushi Sea Bream with Chestnuts
Total time: 2 h 11 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Japanese
Ingredients: 1 whole sea bream, about 675 g (or about 400 g skin-on fillets); 1 tsp fine salt; 12 raw chestnuts in the shell; 14 fresh ginkgo nuts (or 40 g green peas); 1 bunch mitsuba (trefoil), or ½ bunch spinach, parboiled; 1 piece kombu, about 10 x 15 cm; 4 tbsp saké; 600 ml cold water; 10 g kombu, wiped; 12 g dried bonito flakes (katsuobushi); ½ tsp salt; 1 tbsp light (usukuchi) soy sauce; 4 tbsp saké; 2 tsp cornstarch, mixed with 2 tsp cold water; ½ tsp fresh ginger juice or lemon juice (or slivers of yuzu rind or kinome sprigs to garnish)

An autumn steamed dish: lightly cured sea bream set on kombu in individual bowls, strewn with paper-thin raw chestnut, ginkgo and mitsuba, sealed and steamed, then napped with a clear silver sauce of thickened dashi.

YieldServes 4
Hands-on1 h
Total2 h 11 min
Difficulty

Ingredients

fish

1whole sea bream, about 675 g (or about 400 g skin-on fillets)
1 tspfine salt
12raw chestnuts in the shell
14fresh ginkgo nuts (or 40 g green peas)optional
1 bunchmitsuba (trefoil), or ½ bunch spinach, parboiled
1 piecekombu, about 10 x 15 cm
4 tbspsaké

dashi

600 mlcold water
10 gkombu, wiped
12 gdried bonito flakes (katsuobushi)

silver sauce

½ tspsalt
1 tbsplight (usukuchi) soy sauce
4 tbspsaké
2 tspcornstarch, mixed with 2 tsp cold water
½ tspfresh ginger juice or lemon juice (or slivers of yuzu rind or kinome sprigs to garnish)optional

Diet

Pescatarian

Contains

Gluten
Tree nuts
Soy
Fish
Celery
Sulfites
Tuna
Bonito
Chestnut
Ginkgo nut
Legumes (any)
Wheat
Corn (maize)
Rice
Ginger
Parsley
Yeast
Mold-ripened and koji-fermented foods
Seaweed (any)
Kelp
Histamine (aged and fermented foods)
Alcohol
Sea bream
Mitsuba (Japanese parsley)

Taste

Sweet
Salty
Umami / savory
Bitter
Richness / fat
Smoke
Herbal / fresh
Aromatic spice

Texture

Tender-braised
Brothy

Equipment

Stovetop

Season

Fall

Occasion

Entertaining

Effort

45–90 min active
1–3 hours total
Difficulty 3
Needs advance prep

Nutrition

Calories: moderate
Protein: moderate
Carbs: high
Fat: low
Fiber: low
Sodium: high

Budget

Budget: high

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