◾︎ Fukagawa-Meshi
【Ingredients】(Serves 2)
700 g Manila clams
40 ml sake
1+1/2 Tbsp sugar
1+1/2 Tbsp mirin
1+1/2 Tbsp light soy sauce
1 knob ginger

【Directions】
1. Put the Manila clams into a frying pan with sake, cover and cook. Cut the ginger into thin strips.
2. Remove the clams from their shells, and keep the clam stock (“juice”).
3. In a pot, combine sugar, mirin, light soy sauce, 1/3 of the clam stock from 2, add the clams and simmer.
4. Put rice into a rice cooker, add the cooking liquid from 3 and the remaining clam stock from 2, add the ginger and cook the rice.
5. Once cooked, add the clams from 3, and mix.