Ika Meshi (Rice Stuffed Squid)
Ika Meshi (Rice Stuffed Squid)

Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, ika meshi (rice stuffed squid). One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Ika Meshi (Rice Stuffed Squid) is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals on earth. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. They are fine and they look fantastic. Ika Meshi (Rice Stuffed Squid) is something which I have loved my entire life.

Add all the * ingredients into a pressure cooker and turn on the heat so it mixes together. Remove innards and skins from the squid. Ika meshi is a simple dish in which a whole squid is stuffed with seasoned rice and cooked.

To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook ika meshi (rice stuffed squid) using 7 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Ika Meshi (Rice Stuffed Squid):
  1. Take 6 small size squids
  2. Make ready 150 g Rice
  3. Get 3 Tbsp Soy sauce *
  4. Make ready 3 Tbsp Sake *
  5. Take 3 Tbsp Sugar *
  6. Make ready 3 Tbsp Shiro-dashi *
  7. Take 3 Cups Water *

Ika Meshi rice-stuffed squid is a traditional meal made in Hakodate area. With the tentacles and all innards cut off and taken out, the squid is stuffed with rice and closed with a toothpick to keep the rice from spilling out, before being cooked in a soy sauce-based sauce. We are making small Ikameshi, simmered squids with sweet rice inside. The dish is famous for Ekiben, railway boxed meals, in Hokkaido prefecture.

Steps to make Ika Meshi (Rice Stuffed Squid):
  1. Add all the * ingredients into a pressure cooker and turn on the heat so it mixes together.
  2. Remove innards and skins from the squid. Poke some holes into the surface of each squid with a toothpick and stuff rice into each one so it fills them about half of the way. Close the open edge with a toothpick.
  3. Place all squids into the cooker, put the lid on and heat on the medium setting. Once the pressure is on, turn to lower heat and let it cook for about 10 minute.
  4. Once the pressure is gone, take off the lid and cook for about 15 minutes until the sauce is nearly gone.

How to make simmered squids stuffed with sweet rice. Sometimes, I can get my hands on live squid. Ive done the ika somen and what not and they are very tasty. But, I wanted to try something new and ika meshi sounds like the perfect thing to try anew. I was wondering if any of you tried it and would like some pointers or even a recipe would be nice.

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