Gingered Sardine

Photo: flickr user stu_spivack

Ingredients

20 sardines (iwashi)

1/2 ounce ginger (tsuchi-shoga)

1/2 cup kelp-flavored fish stock (nidashijiru)

1/4 cup soy sauce (shoyu)

1/8 cup sweetened cooking sake (mirin)

1/8 cup Japanese rice wine (sake)

1 1/2 tablespoons sugar

1 tablespoon vinegar

Preparation

Remove fish heads and clean. Cut ginger into matchstick-size pieces.

Preheat high-speed gas oven to about 450 degrees. Put sardines, ginger and simmering liquid ingredients in oven ware, place parchment paper drop lid directly on ingredients and cover with another tight-fitting lid. Cook in gas oven about 15 minutes; leave in oven for another 15 minutes. Alternatively, fish can be simmered on stove.

This recipe yields 4 servings.