Easy Japanese Sukiyaki Sauce

Fish

 4-ingredient sukiyaki sauce perfectly balances savory and sweet flavors in a classic Japanese hot pot dish. Make it with cod and spinach, or add it to your traditional beef hotpot.

Ingredients:

Sukiyaki Sauce: mirin soy sauce sake raw sugar Sukiyaki with Cod & Spinach: sukiyaki sauce dashi  cod fillets fresh spinach soba noodles scallions red chilis 

Let's Get Cooking

1. Prep Sauce

Simmer soy sauce, mirin, sake and sugar over medium heat until sugar has fully dissolved.

2. Cook Fish

Add dashi broth to the skillet of sukiyaki sauce. Bring up to a simmer.

Add fresh cod fillets and cover the skillet. Allow broth to simmer gently, poaching the fish.

Add the fresh spinach, wilting the leaves in the final minute of cooking.

Add soba noodles in bottom of bowl. Top with wilted spinach, then a cod fillet.

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Pour broth over cod, then garnish with scallions and chilis.

Prep for Service

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