Meatloaf with Shiitake and Tofu

Western

Traditional

Meat

Appetizers

Ingredients (6 to 8 servings) (1 hour)

10g Dried Shiitake , cut or break into half.
200g Ground pork-A
270g Atsuage (A Japanese Style Fried Tofu) -A
1 Egg-A
1/4,80g Onion-A
3 Tbsp Panko (breadcrumbs)-A
1 Tbsp Sake-A
1 Tbsp Mirin (Japanese Sweet Rice Wine)-A
1 Tbsp Miso-A
1 Tbsp Soy sauce-A
1 Tbsp Apricot jam-B
1 Tbsp Sake-B
1 Tbsp Mirin(sweet cooking rice wine)-B
1 Tbsp Soy sauce-B
45 ml Shiitake soaking water

Steps

For the meatloaf:(A) Place the dried shiitake mushroom in a bowl and cover with 60ml water.　Soak for 30 minutes, reserve the liquid.

Put ground pork, Atsuage, egg, onion, panko, sake, mirin, miso and soy sauce in a food processor and process untileverything is finely chopped.

Drain and squeeze the shiitake mushroom, and stir into the meat mixture. Preheat oven to 200℃. Line a loaf pan with oven paper. Press mixture evenly into the loaf pan, and bake for 15 minutes.

For the Apricot sauce: (B)Place apricot jam, sake, miring, soy sauce and 45ml of the reserved liquid in a small saucepan. Simmer, until reduced the sauce by two thirds.

Spread the apricot sauce on the meatloaf, and bake again at 180℃ for 20 minutes.

Point

Rehydrating dried Shiitake with cold water gets rid of bad odors and brings out more sweetness and flavor.