＜Uzaku Bento＞

■Uzaku / Eel & cucumber
【Ingredients】
1/2 piece grilled & seasoned eel
2 cucumbers
Salt
1 tablespoon Japanese sake
Ginger

Sanbai-zu / Japanese marinade:
2 tablespoons vinegar
2 tablespoons Mirin / sweetening made of Japanese sake
2 tablespoons light soy sauce

1. Rinse off the sauce of the grilled eel and wipe it with paper towels.
2. Sprinkle salt on the cucumbers, toll them briskly on a cutting board. Then apply shallow cuts on the cucumbers and leave until soften.
3. Rinse off the excess salt of the cucumbers wipe them with paper towels.
4. Cut 3 into a bite size.
5. Place the grilled eel in a frying pan, sprinkle with Japanese sake and warm.
6. Cut 5 into a bite size.
7. Combine the ingredients for Sanbai-zu in a bowl.
8. Add 4 & 6 in Sanbai-zu and combine.

【Garnish】
Ohba / Japanese sweet basil
Pickled Japanese radish
Lettuce
Egg
Red & yellow bell pepper
Green pepper
Carrot
Ganmodoki / Japanese deep-fried Tofu ball
Vegetable carving / broccoli stem