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Itameshi (Japanese: イタ飯) is a type of fusion cuisine originally from Japan that combines traditional elements of Japanese food and Italian food. The name comes from the combination of the Japanese name for Italy (イタリア Itaria ) and the Japanese word for meal (飯 meshi ). [ 1 ]
This fresh squid is 산 오징어 (san ojingeo) (also with small octopuses called nakji). The squid is served with Korean mustard, soy sauce, chili sauce, or sesame sauce. It is salted and wrapped in lettuce or perilla leaves. Squid is also marinated in hot pepper sauce and cooked on a pan (nakji bokum or ojingeo bokum/ojingeo-chae-bokkeum ...
Katsu ika odori-don (活いか踊り丼, dancing squid rice bowl) is a Japanese dish consisting of a fresh squid atop either rice or noodles. Upon pouring soy sauce on the squid, it squirms ("dances") as the muscles react to the sodium in the sauce, in a similar manner to how frog legs twitch when being seasoned. [1]
A soy sauce on the sweet-side, [8] or a marinade blending soy sauce with (sweet) mirin are said to be used. [9]Nowadays, there a Matsumae zuke sets or kits (precut squid and kelp) available [10] for easy preparation, but to create from scratch, below is a home-cooking recipe published in newspaper: [11]
1 ½ cup Japanese rice, cooked to fluffiness Three umeboshi salted Japanese plums (available at Asian food stores; for smaller umeboshi, use one for each rice ball) Two sheets of dried nori seaweed
At port towns where the caught squid are brought ashore, the freshly caught squid are semi-translucent, [2] have excellent texture, and are "marvelously sweet, especially the morning-caught squid shipped alive". [2] In Japan, the abundantly caught surume ika or Japanese flying squid, available from early summer onwards, is used to make this dish.
Ikayaki, or grilled squid. Ikayaki (いか焼き, イカ焼き, or 烏賊焼) is a popular fast food in Japan.In much of Japan, the term refers to simple grilled squid topped with soy sauce; the portion of squid served may be the whole body (minus entrails), rings cut from the body, or one or more tentacles, depending on the size. [1]
Ikameshi is prepared by removing tentacles from and gutting the squid, which is then stuffed with washed rice and cooked in dashi. Toothpicks and other such items may be used to keep the rice in place. The rice itself is usually a blend of both glutinous and non-glutinous rice. [2]