Fukagawa Don

Fukagawa Don , on top of the rice , the rice bowl that multiplied by the miso soup stewed vegetables such as green onions clams , and Aoyagi and clams .

Is in each place to shop Monzennakacho and near Fukagawa Koto , issued a sign as " Fukagawa Don " .

Origin
It is said that the land at the mouth of the Sumida River , and that toward the end of the Edo period , it was caught well , such as clams and clams , and shellfish from the estuary , which was started to eat between the fishermen come and go there is from .
That you can be able to be able to make it easily in no time because it can shellfish such as clams and clams get immediately , unit price is cheaper catch is abundant , cooking is also a simple , bolt down more quickly is preferred cooking in response to Edo people at the time , began to spread in an instant .

There is the thing which I Takikon rather than what you stewed , name or even referred to as " Shenzhen rice " , some of them were various arrangements .

In Tokyo station , station lunch sale of " Shenzhen rice " is .
Ekiben popular boiled fish that taste with firmly is not riding on top of the lunch of " Shenzhen rice " , you can get pickles and cooked food also entered quietly , to write to the mouth quickly , in the that there is also nutritional value it has become .

How to make

Material ( serving )
1 if rice
120g shelled clams
Leek 20g
Deep-fried tofu 10g
Increments laver appropriate amount
1 egg
Broth 220cc
Light soy sauce 20cc
Mirin 10cc
Miso 8g
To make a soup seasoned with mirin and light soy sauce to 1 . Broth . Deep-fried tofu that was in shredded green onion and you have diagonal cut , providing a shelled clams .
Put beaten the miso soup which I made with 2.1 , and cook over high heat .
Immediately beginning to boil 3 . , Green onions and diagonal cut , deep-fried tofu that was in shredded and put in the order of clams shelled .
※ When you put the egg , after you turn on the shelled clams .
※ domestic is desirable that the clams . If a good quality clams did not enter the hand , is recommended to cook with water in advance .
After cooking about 7 minutes 4 . , Was subjected to warm rice , and voila sprinkle shredded nori .
※ About the time you cook . When the room temperature about 7 minutes over high heat soup 1 . If the state that I Tsu boil , about 2 minutes over high heat aim .
※ When I put the eggs in three , without breaking the eggs as soon as they start eating , try to eat by dividing the half-boiled egg around eating about 1 /3 .
※ You try to put the pepper and red pepper to your liking also is recommended .

Tips for cooking .
 Shallots and sweet kelp , sushi gully , pickled radish is recommended for garnish . Beer , of course , the affinity with the white wine and sake is also excellent . Where I tried various flavors without sown , Fukagawa Don to put the sauce and peanut brittle Fukagawa Don to put the curry powder was well received from the clerk . If you are about to make it , try putting your eggs all means after you put the material in step 3 , and then , put the peanut brittle sauce or curry powder to your liking .

Persimmon Fukushima Po bean paste

It is dried persimmon that was fumigated with sulfur and astringent . A kind of dried fruit .
It was developed in the Taisho years : ( Date- old county Isazawa village Isazawa ) Date City , Fukushima Prefecture Yanagawa Isazawa .

Made in the unique manufacturing method of drying by fumigation with sulfur astringent . Persimmons only dried simply , become stiff black and dried , (such as persimmon time ) blowing white powder sugar of time has elapsed further . Features in touch juicy like half raw , security persimmon , 's soft as yokan against this . No toxicity to volatilize during drying sulfur. It is rich in nutrients such as potassium vitamin .

I use mainly astringent , such as ( without it Hirata ) Without flat nuclear Hachiya persimmons and ( Ki is Hachiya ) in the raw material . Hachiya persimmons are soft and large , flat non- nuclear is a characteristic sweetness is strong in small .

Date, future agricultural cooperatives , an integrated agricultural cooperative and (JA Date- future ) , Date, fruit agricultural cooperatives , a specialist agricultural cooperative ( abbreviation security persimmon Fukushima Prefecture Date City , Date, county of neighborhood is the birthplace is , or " Ita by ") , it is mostly shipped . However , small farmers and cooperatives by the spread of the Internet in recent years , for direct sales to consumers over the Internet is also increasing rapidly .

To become production of persimmon , the golden age of shipping baggage Ann November to February , it is not a slack season even in winter to snowfall farmers to produce persimmon po bean paste . Thanks to the persimmon po bean paste , compared with rural areas of other provinces in the Tohoku region , migrant workers engaged in , such as civil engineering industry out into the city in winter is small , such as Date City - Date- county production area . Further , due to the special product , it is hard to drop in prices compared to agricultural products such as fruit and vegetables in general , has become a valuable stable income as a farmer.

Way of eating
- Soft , I just eat .
• Do not hang it in the good place of cool ventilation and dry , it can be kept for three months to half a year or more when stored in the refrigerator , but if you save over a long period of time , drying progresses gradually, and hardening gradually as time persimmon . You can mix it with all-night cram session and salad by slicing , or tossed in yogurt Chop finely , different way of eating can be security persimmon to dry hard time has elapsed . And stored frozen to long-term storage in the soft state . 15 degrees or less is preferably storage temperature .
• When making pickles and sweets , and kneading in addition to sugar in order to take the sweetness , and finished with fragrant natural sweetness .

Background of persimmon birth po bean paste
There is a decline of silk market of Japan . (East region to be Kawamata Town Date City , Fukushima and Iino district of current in particular ) Fukushimabonchi region of the Meiji period from late Tokugawa period was sericulture area of nation's leading . There were also facilities such as yarn-making factory moisture , while small in sericulture farmers also Isazawa . However , the size of the width of variation of the raw silk market has been a problem . By fluctuation in the market , some that you make lots of money , is was also farmers go bankrupt . In addition , I began to see signs of Shayoka of silk market and into the Taisho period . So , start a search for new agricultural products to replace the sericulture , the result , persimmon chubby Anne , and also birth , put the emphasis on the cultivation of peaches and apples later , influential people who Isazawa of fruit trees the current center of I have set a foundation of agriculture .