Smart Recipes with Umami

Seafood Bowl

  • Umami-rich Recipes with Seafood

A seafood bowl of rice mixed with green tea leaves. Umami of seafood and tea leaves are mixed together.The bitterness of the tea leaves that lingers is one of the delicious elements of the seafood bowl.

 Ingredients( for 2 persons )

  • 400g rice
  • 1 tbsp green tea leaf
  • 1 horse mackerel (for sashimi)
  • 60g tuna (for sashimi)
  • 2 scallops (for sashimi)
  • nori (laver) flakes
  • kinome (sansho leaves)
  • soy sauce and wasabi

 Recipes

  • 1. Make the green tea leaves finer with a grinder. Mix it with rice and arrange on a bowl.
  • 2. Shave the horse mackerel, tuna and scallops into bite-sized pieces.
  • 3. Place nori flakes on the rice and arrange the horse mackerel, tuna, scallops, and kinome colorfully. Serve it with soy sauce and wasabi.

Umami Score of Main Ingredients in the Recipe

あじ

Horse mackerel(Aji)

Inosinate :
270mg/100g

まぐろ

Tuna

Inosinate :
250〜360mg/100g

ほたて

Scallop

Glutamate :
140mg/100g

Guanylate :
14mg/100g

緑茶の茶葉

Green tea leaf

Glutamate :
220〜670mg/100g

  • Cooking time : 15 minutes
  • Calorific Value : 440 kcal

Green tea leaf is rich in umam substance, glutamate. Combined with regular ingredients and recipes, it brings synergistic effect and becomes much tastier.

Source

「うま味」パワーの活用便利帳

By using umami power, make your daily dishes more delicious

Seishun shuppannsha 2013 August

  • About 150 recipes by cooking specialist Fumiyo Kawakami are presented in the book.
  • The Umami Information Center provides basic umami information and Dr. Takashi Yamamoto, our president, supervised the book.