Recipes

Wasabi Paste
  • Ingredients
  • 1 tablespoon white peppercorns
  • 1 tablespoon black peppercorns
  • 1 tablespoon yellow mustard seeds
  • 1 teaspoon wasabi powder
  • 3 to 4 teaspoons warm water
  • 1/2 cup finely minced onion
  • 2 tablespoons sake
  • 2 tablespoons soy sauce
  • 2 tablespoons mirin
Directions
  1. Place the white and black peppercorns and mustard seeds in a spice grinder or blender and grind to a coarse powder
  2. Stir warm water into wasabi powder until it's smooth, adding more water a bit at a time, if necessary
  3. Let wasabi stand for 10 minutes
  4. Stir wasabi into onions along with ground spices, sake, soy sauce and mirin
  5. Use within 24 hours. Yield: 1/2 cup SUGGESTED USE: Sake and mirin are both Japanese rice wines
  6. Sake is dry and is used served warm for dipping with a meal, while mirin is quite sweet and is usually used in cooking only
  7. Try this spicy paste rubbed on flank steak or London Broil (4 hours), or even a beef top sirloin (4 hours)
  8. Also try it on firm fish fillets like swordfish or salmon (1 hour).


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