
March 2024 (vol. 197)
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It is an easy and perfect side dish for Bento box!
Leftover carrot scraps can be used for Bolognese Sauce!

Difficulty: Easy
Time: 20min
Number of servings: 8 pieces
Ingredients
- 8 thinly sliced pork loin
- 8 1.3inch-long carrots salt
- A
* 2 tsp. Sake
* 2 tsp. Mirin (sweet Sake)
* 2 tsp. soy sauce - corn or potato starch
- 1 tsp. cooking oil
Directions:
- Use a small (2cm=0.8inch) flower-shaped cookie cutter and cut out the carrots. In a boiling water, cook the carrots for 10 minutes, drain well, and cool.
- Place pork slices, season with a bit of salt, place the cooked carrot on the end of the pork, then start rolling.
- Heat cooking oil in a frying pan, place the rolls seam side down, you can cover and steam to cook them through for a couple of minutes, then make sure to flip the rolls so that all sides are cooked equally crisp and brown.
- Add and coat with A, sprinkle with a few pinches of corn or potato starch, and stop the heat when the sauce thickens.
- When they are cool enough to handle, cut one side to let show the beautiful flower shape.
*You can eat the scraps to see how they taste 😉

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