Japanese

Shirasu Don (Baby Sardines over Rice)

Name: Shirasu Don (Baby Sardines over Rice)
Total time: 10 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Japanese
Ingredients: 4 cups cooked white rice; 1 cup shirasu; 1 tbsp soy sauce; 1 tsp grated ginger; 2 scallions; 1 tbsp toasted sesame seeds

Yuki @yuki_1993

Shirasu Don (Baby Sardines over Rice) is Japanese home cooking, eaten at breakfast. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.

10 min Easy Pescatarian Dairy free

Ingredients

Serves

The quantities follow this count.

4 cups cooked white rice
1 cup shirasu
1 tbsp soy sauce
1 tsp grated ginger
2 scallions
1 tbsp toasted sesame seeds

How to cook it

Divide the rice among bowls.
Mound the shirasu over the rice.
Drizzle with soy sauce and scatter the ginger, scallions, and sesame seeds over the top.

Watch how to cook Shirasu Don (Baby Sardines over Rice)

Someone making it start to finish, so you can see what the steps look like.

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Serve it with

A Japanese breakfast is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Shirasu Don (Baby Sardines over Rice), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

What it is eaten with
- Genmai Gohan (Steamed Brown Rice)
  
  45 min

Safe at your table

Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Shirasu Don (Baby Sardines over Rice) carries gluten, soy, fish, and sesame. It is free of the remaining 6 allergens on that list.

Every tracked allergen in Shirasu Don (Baby Sardines over Rice)
Allergen	In this dish	Cook this instead
Peanuts	No
Tree nuts	No
Dairy	No
Gluten	Yes	Asa Sarada (Morning Cabbage and Corn Salad)
Shellfish	No
Eggs	No
Soy	Yes	Asa Sarada (Morning Cabbage and Corn Salad)
Fish	Yes	Asa Sarada (Morning Cabbage and Corn Salad)
Sesame	Yes	Asagohan Teishoku (Traditional Japanese Breakfast Set)
Coconut	No

These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.

What it brings to the plate

Estimated, per serving

Calories: 270 kcal
Protein: 8 g
Carbs: 54 g
Fat: 2 g
Fiber: 1 g
Sugar: 1 g
Sodium: 510 mg
Saturated fat: 1 g

Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.

When to cook it

Shirasu Don (Baby Sardines over Rice) takes about 10 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at breakfast. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.