Kinki is “rockfish” in English and nitsuke means boiled fish (or vegetables) in soy sauce. Winter is the best season for rockfish, and nitsuke is the most popular way to eat it. This picture is from yesterday’s dinner. The kinki is on the right side of the bento box.

Yield: 2 people
Time: 20 minutes

Ingredients

2 kinki steaks 3 slices of ginger

Spices

1/3 cup water
1/3 cup sake
2 tbsp soy sauce
2 tbsp mirin
2 tbsp sugar

Preparation

Mix spices in a bowl (water, sake, soy sauce, mirin, sugar)
Add Kinki, mixed spices, and ginger in a sauce pan, then boil for 15 minutes over hight heat. (Flip kinki over halfway through).

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