Recipe: Tasty Marinated Tuna Sashimi Rice Bowl

Marinated Tuna Sashimi Rice Bowl. It's Marinated Sashimi Rice Bowl and commonly Tuna Sashimi is used, but I sometimes use Salmon Sashimi. Make a delicious sashimi tuna rice bowl from scratch using an umami-rich marinade to really bring out the flavor with our recipe. Maguro zuke don is a simple yet umami-packed easy meal. "Zuke" means to marinate and "don" is short for donburi, which means rice bowl.

Whip up Chef John's spicy tuna rice bowl in a flash for a meal that's as easy as it is comforting and delicious. While rice is cooking, place tuna into a large mixing bowl and break up with your hands or a fork. Make Tekka Don at home with sashimi grade tuna marinated in soy sauce, sake, and mirin served over rice, garnish with sesame seeds and nori. You can cook Marinated Tuna Sashimi Rice Bowl using 10 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Marinated Tuna Sashimi Rice Bowl

1. It's 100-150 g of Tuna Sashimi.
2. You need 1 of serving Freshly Cooked Short Grain Rice *OR Sushi Rice.
3. It's 1/2 sheet of Nori (Seaweed Sheet) *toasted, torn into small pieces.
4. You need of Toasted Sesame Seeds.
5. Prepare 1/2 of Spring Onion *finely chopped.
6. It's of Wasabi.
7. You need 1 tablespoon of Soy Sauce.
8. Prepare 1/2 tablespoon of Mirin.
9. You need of <Marinade>.
10. You need 1/2 tablespoon of Sake (Rice Wine).

Place the tuna on top of steamed rice that has been cooled. Super easy meal with sashimi quality tuna, Marinated Tuna on Rice requires no cooking. A standard Japanese-style rice bowl would be too small as the tuna slices are placed on top of the rice. You could use a soup bowl or noodle soup bowl instead.

Marinated Tuna Sashimi Rice Bowl instructions

1. Cut the block of Tuna into 7-8mm thick slices if not sliced yet. Combine the marinade ingredients in a bowl, add Tuna slices and marinate for about 20 minutes..
2. Note: Mirin and Sake are alcoholic. You may wish to boil the marinade first. Make sure the marinade is cool when you add Tuna..
3. Half fill a bowl with freshly cooked Short Grain Rice (*OR Sushi Rice), scatter 1 tablespoon of the marinade over the rice, cover with Nori, then place the marinated Tuna slices..
4. Sprinkle with Spring Onion and Toasted Sesame Seeds, and top with some Wasabi..

Tekka Don is a rice bowl with marinated tuna Sashimi on top. It is an extremely easy dish to make if you have good Sashimi grade tuna (raw tuna that is sold to be eaten raw). Even though the dish is not complicated, Tekka Don tastes really good and is much more special than typical Donburi (rice bowl). Combining sashimi grade tuna and then marinating in a soy and mirin based sauce gives this dish its unique flavour. Spicy tuna donburi, or don, is a Japanese dish where spicy tuna is served atop a bowl of steamed rice.