Eel Over Rice (Unagi Don)

Ingredients
1) Frozen Package of Unagi (Eel) (from your local Japanese grocery store)
2) 1.5 cups of Sushi Rice or a sweet rice variety such as Cal Rose / Nishiki brand.
3) Sesame seeds (garnish)

Directions
Prepare a rice cooker and cook rice till most of the water has cooked away (~10 minutes) then add your frozen unagi into the rice cooker and cook for the remaining time to finish cooking the rice! Serve over rice! Garnish with sesame seeds.


Barbecued Eel and Sauce

• ½ cup plum wine
• ½ cup sake
• 250 grams white sugar, plus 125 grams
• 4 quarts spring water
• 4 pounds freshwater eel fillets
• ¾ cup soy sauce

Place plum wine, sake, sugar and spring water in a pot. Bring to a boil and add eel fillets. Turn heat down to low. Cook for 30 minutes without boiling. Remove eel from liquid and let cool. Place an additional 125 grams of white sugar and ¾ cup soy sauce to the pot. Reduce mixture until a thick glaze forms.