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Cod Shirako Clear Soup

This time, we used cod milt to evoke the image of a snowy landscape.

Sailfin sandfish, kombu-cured

This is a palate-settling course themed around Akita Prefecture's local cuisine. For the Sailfin Sandfish Kombu-Cured, I wanted people to enjoy every…

• Serves 1 · ¥520

• Cook time 12 hr

Shirako tofu spring roll with arrowhead bulb and sudachi

When wrapping the shirako tofu in spring-roll pastry, I add a little powdered karasumi and Kikuhime daiginjo sake lees — the karasumi adds salinity…

Milt tofu

The shirako tofu for the clear-soup course is made by stretching the shirako with just enough surimi that its aroma is not lost. On top of the…

Shrimp-shaped taro, soft roe wrapped in sea bream, spring cabbage rolled in fried tofu pouch, bamboo shoot simmered with bonito, pan-simmered butterbur

For the simmered course's sea bream-wrapped shirako, the shirako and fish flesh are salted, butterflied open, dusted with "Pearl Meat" (a food-safe…

Salt-Steamed Abalone, Tosa-Marinated Herring-Roe Kelp Wrapped in White-Silk Yam, Kamaboko Molded with Salmon Milt, Black Rice and Squid Rice, Deep-Fried Megisu with Red Yukari, Simply Grilled Amagi Shiitake with Salmon Roe, Mukago and Tonburi Terrine, Spaghetti Squash and Pine Nuts in a Momiji-Style Dressing

For the Tosa-marinated herring-roe kelp wrapped in white-silk yam, I cut the mountain yam with a knife, soak it in a light alum-salt solution for…

Sea Bream Roe and Milt with Grated Daikon in Shuto Sauce

For the sea bream roe and milt with grated daikon in shuto sauce: heat freshly grated raw daikon, combine it with shuto (salted bonito innards)…

Milt tofu; kombu-cured cod; persimmon wrapped in prosciutto, and more

The baked apple is made by cutting apple into comb-shaped wedges, coating generously with granulated sugar, and baking in the oven; once cooled and…

Spiny lobster, oyster, and sea urchin and milt, grilled

For the additional course — ise-ebi, oyster, uni, and shirako, grilled — I salt the shirako lightly and boil it, bind it just slightly with premium…

Cod steamed with grated turnip, grilled cod milt

Steamed fugu milt and tofu skin

Grilled fish milt set in jelly

For the grilled shirako set in jelly, today I finished it with a ponzu-thickened sauce, but the currently trendy ponzu gelée would also work nicely.

Crumbled tofu in a snow-flurry presentation, oil-simmered lotus-root mochi, and cod milt simmered in sake

Deep-fried pufferfish

For the vinegared course's deep-fried fugu, I coat the pufferfish in potato starch and egg yolk and deep-fry it to a golden color, in a style named…

Wild ayu fermented sushi, milt-and-roe uruka, and shibu uruka

Pufferfish milt checkerboard tofu, first-frost style

For the clear-soup course, I finely minced mountain yam and stirred it into a lightly kuzu-thickened soup broth, styling it after the first frost.

Dressed milt

For the milt dish, hosta shoot, the tender inner sheath of a bamboo shoot, and Japanese Japanese parsley are set together using an agar called…

Light kuzu-thickened clear soup, fugu milt tofu, and kinko ikomi

For the kinko ikomi in the clear soup, we soak the kinko (a prized species of sea cucumber) in water mixed with straw ash and leave it for about…

Tiger fugu milt manju

For the tiger fugu milt manju, ginkgo nuts pressed through a fine sieve are combined with fish paste and fresh cream, then used to wrap and roll…

Pufferfish milt long-kept pickle, set milt custard

As for the appetizer course yose-jirako, whenever I make a set, custard-style dish, adding a little fresh cream gives a very good texture, so I…

Sea bass baked in pastry

For the grilled dish, the sea bass baked in pastry: the sea bass is quickly seasoned with salt and pepper and seared to color. Spinach ohitashi is…

Surf clam grilled with sea urchin sauce, duck wrapped in Shimonita leek, cod wrapped in its own milt and grilled with tomo-dare sauce, shrimp-shaped taro grilled Shigaraki-style

This time I made grilled dishes the centerpiece. For the surf clam grilled with uni sauce, the equal-parts mixture of three seasonings becomes…

Cod milt and napa cabbage amber terrine, kelp-grilled milt

Normally, we set the napa cabbage in a terrine mold. This time, we made sheets from the napa cabbage stems and wrapped the set filling in them to…

Cod milt, nanban-style deep-fried