Japanese hamachi teriyaki with maitake foam and crispy tosaka seaweed

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This hamachi teriyaki from Miho Sato is a beautiful take on a Japanese classic. The glossy, grilled hamachi is served with a fragrant maitake foam, and a crispy garnish made from dehydrated tosaka seaweed.

First published in 2024

Ingredients

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Sansho midori oil

  • 25g of shiso leaves
  • 20g of chives
  • 15g of spinach
  • 20g of sansho pepper, sansho
  • 100ml of vegetable oil

Hamachi

  • 240g of hamachi fillet, cut into 4 x 60g pieces
  • 100g of shio koji, liquid type
  • 10g of potato starch, ideally katakuriko
  • 5g of vegetable oil

Maitake mushroom foam sauce

Teriyaki sauce

  • 100g of sake
  • 200g of hon mirin
  • 150g of soy sauce, gluten-free
  • 100g of granulated sugar, ideally zarame-tou

Garnish

Equipment

  • iSi whip
  • salamander
  • Thermomix

Method

1

Start by making the tosaka seaweed garnish. Sprinkle the tosaka seaweed with some sugar and then dehydrate in a dehydrator set to 74°C for 5 hours. This can also be done at a low temperature in an oven

2

To make sansho midori oil, blanch all the green herbs for 15 seconds and then cool

3

Transfer the herbs to a Thermomix along with the sansho and oil. Heat to 45°C and blend for 5 minutes. Alternatively, if you don't have a Thermomix, this can be done by heating the oil with the herbs and then transferring to a high-powered blender and blitzing

  • 20g of sansho pepper, sansho
  • 100ml of vegetable oil
4

Strain the green oil through some muslin and set aside

5

Meanwhile, marinade the sliced hamachi in the shio koji for 30 minutes

  • 240g of hamachi fillet, cut into 4 x 60g pieces
  • 100g of shio koji, liquid type
6

To make the maitake mushroom foam sauce, sear the maitake mushrooms in a pan with the oil

7

Add soy milk, garlic and salt and simmer until the garlic has softened

8

Blend the sauce until smooth

9

Pass the sauce, and then whisk in xanthan gum. Transfer to an iSi cream whipper

  • 1.5g of xanthan gum
10

Meanwhile, bring all the ingredients for the teriyaki sauce to a simmer, and stir until the sugar has dissolved

  • 100g of sake
  • 200g of hon mirin
  • 150g of soy sauce, gluten-free
  • 100g of granulated sugar, ideally zarame-tou
11

Remove the hamachi from the shio koji and pat dry. Sprinkle katakuriko on both sides of the hamachi

  • 10g of potato starch, ideally katakuriko
12

Heat a frying pan with the oil and fry the hamachi on both sides over a high heat

  • 5g of vegetable oil
13

Brush the hamachi with the teriyaki sauce, and then grill until glossy under a salamander grill or regular grill. Grill the maitake mushrooms for garnish as well, until brown and crispy

14

To plate, serve the grilled yellowtail on a bed of seaweed and grilled maitake, and add a side of foamed maitake mushroom sauce and a drizzle of green oil

First published in 2024

Ten years of rigorous training in Japan armed Miho Sato with remarkable sushi-making skills and a deep appreciation of her craft. Having cooked at Japanese restaurants around Europe, today she is the UK’s only female sushi master, introducing Londoners to edomae style at The Aubrey.

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