Modoki Shitake mushrooms, candy apple

Ingredients

Shiitake mushrooms, yam, yukari, oil, apples, sugar, sake, salt

Recipe

Modoki Shiitake mushrooms

  1. Cut shiitake mushrooms in decorative shapes.
  2. Grate the yam.
  3. Add Yukari (dried Japanese basil) to 2. and mix well.
  4. Spread 3. on the bottom side of Shiitake mushrooms (1 – 2 cm thickness)
  5. Deep fry 4. at about 170℃ in oil.

Candy apple

  1. Cut apple into 12 pieces.
  2. Soak apple pieces in salt water.
  3. Put the apple pieces into the pot so that they do not overlap.
  4. Add 45 g of sugar per 1 apple.
  5. Add 100 ml of sake and a little bit of salt. Cook a medium flame until the liquid disappears.