Saturday, August 23, 2008

Narutomaki(Kamaboko)

Some time back I posted a message on my other blog about wanting to find a recipe for naruto. In case you don't know, Naruto is a Japanese fish cake with a pink spiral commonly used to decorate ramen.

Image taken from japanesefood.about.com

Not long ago, someone commented on that post stating that I might have better luck searching under the name kamaboko. I did have better luck, but I still haven't found anything I could consider a recipe. There are many sites that say cooking naruto at home just isn't done because the process is too difficult. I did find one person at Recipe Link that listed some of the thickeners used in making kamaboko, but that is hardly a recipe.

My other blog gets a decent number of hits and nobody has been able to find a recipe. I've scoured the internets trying to find one. Can any of you good blog readers find anything? I promise to do a follow-up on this with pictures of me making it and the recipe/process if someone is able to find me a recipe.

2 comments:

tokyo_tomato said...

here is a kamaboko recipe my mom uses:
4 cups of fish. 3/4 cup sugar. 1/2 cup water. 1 egg. 3/4 cup chopped cellery. 3/4 cup chopped carrots. 3/4 cup chopped onions. 3 tsp flour. 2 tsp salt. 1 tbsp liquor 3 tsp cornstarch.
Instructions. Mash (scrape) meat from fish into a paste. Mix all ingredients together except cornstarch. Leave until last to mix in (cornstarch). Make into small patties or small pieces. Put small amount of oil into oval fry pan. Deep fry pieces until golden brown. Do not overheat the oil.
Enjoy.

K.Takeuchi

Alexis von Blumenthal said...

http://lovebitescooking.blogspot.com/2010/11/narutomaki-kamaboko-recipe.html

I sussed it!