You want to try the traditional sushi from Mie Prefecture in Japan? This is tekone sushi てこね寿司 and it’s simply delicious!
The bonito is marinated in a soy sauce/sake which goes well with the vinegared rice. Its taste is addictive due to its blend of flavors. Easy to make and ideal for hospitality, you can now recreate this local dish in your own kitchen!
Japanese utensils for tekone sushi recipe
A hangiri
A hangiri is a wooden tray used to prepare the rice for sushi. It will also serve as a presentation container that will be placed in the middle of the table.
However, if you don’t have one, you can use a wide and flat container.
A rice spatula :
This spatula sushi rice practice is used to pack, mix and aerate the sushi rice. It will also be used to arrange your rice in your maki or nigiri if you have any.
Rice cooker:
To go faster, we advise you to equip yourself with a rice cooker. The Japanese brand Zojirushi is our choice for the best rice cooker. We have always cooked with a rice cooker and have tested a lot of them but this model is simply incomparable
Otherwise, if you don’t want to invest, we recommend our sushi rice recipe made with a pot.
Recipe tekone sushi with bonito
Equipment
- 1 Rice cooker
- 1 hangiri
- 1 Spatula
Ingredients
- 700 g hot Japanese rice
- 70 ml sushi vinegar You can check our recipe for sumeshi vinegar rice or take a ready-made one
- 250 g bonito
- 80 ml soy sauce
- 30 ml sweet sake
- 10 sheets shiso perilla
- 15 g ginger
- white sesame
- nori leaves in strips
Instructions
Preparation
- Cut the shiso perilla leaves and ginger into julienne or small cubes.
- Cut the bonito into 1 cm wide pieces.
- In the hangiri, mix your cooked Japanese rice with the sushi vinegar using a rice spatula.
- In a saucepan, heat the sake and soy sauce together over low heat until the alcohol is dissolved (about 5 minutes).
- In a dish, place your bonito slices and dip them in the previous sake/soy sauce. Let marinate for 15 minutes in the refrigerator.
Presentation
- In your hangiri filled with rice, arrange your marinated bonito, then top with the garnishes. First the perilla shiso leaves, then the ginger, then the white sesame and finally the nori leaves in strips.
- You can add some marinade sauce on top. It's ready to go!
Did you know ?
The Shima area in Mie prefecture is a fishing community. The women work as Ama (fishing divers) to look for sea urchins and shellfish, and the men are busy fishing for bonito. They also have to prepare food for their families. So they take fresh fish and mix it by hand “TEKONE” with rice and nori seaweed seasoned with shoyu (soy sauce), ginger, shiso leaves to create tekone sushi. Tekone sushi literally means “sushi mixed with fingers”. This dish is so widespread that it has become a classic that everyone enjoys, especially during celebrations.
Our tips for the tekone sushi recipe
This dish is placed in the middle of the table, and you serve your guests with a rice spatula directly into the bowls of each
You can eat tekone sushi with a little wasabi it is a delicacy.
The perilla shiso leaves can be found in Asian grocery stores but you can replace them with flat parsley, coriander, basil, green onions, chives, leeks…
