i think so too its like comfort food for the Soul and the recepies are amazing too! my coleeges and boyfriend make fun of it: i used to watch it during night shifts. they think its weard to have a dog in the kitchen. But i feel relaxed when he yawns in the backround and its diferent to other shows without giving you the feel that its just for atantion.
Yall can literally get 1kg for less then 1$ here in malaysia. Its like grass here. Why buy when u can just fish it yourself. Its literally everywhere here.
This is so delicious!! I found frozen unagi at the Korean grocery store and made this. My favorite is the one with the green onions, wasabi, and nori. I like it more than the one with soup, but the soup one is good too. :)
THAT DOG IS THE CUTEST THING EVER! Oh and of course, the recipe and video was awesome! I love Japanese food please make more videos to educate us on the culture and cuisine! :)
Konnichiwa Francis and of course, the chef. I wonder if there's another way to subtitute the bonito flakes flavor? I live in a tropical Island, Dominican Republic and the Asian influence is not very strong. So, it's hard to find ingredients like that. something else, Can I use white wine instead of sake? Hope to hear from you soon. Arigatou gozaimasu!! Sayounara
+Harrison Jaquez Hola! cómo que la influencia asiática no es fuerte? jajaja :) date un vuelta por el barrio chino y puedes encontrar el caldo de bonito en polvo lo uso a diario en mi cocina viene en una caja blanca con letras azules "hondashi" ;) ~ la anguila sería un poco más dificil ...
ah i mean soma from, "shokugeki no soma" it s a cooking manga. so far , the protaganist has made 2 dish that he tell the judge to pour a soup over their donbori to enhance the favor. that s why when she does it too , soma come to my mind immedietealy.
The closest taste I can think of, would be that of smoked Spiny Dogfish belly (also called Mud Shark). In western Europe it's common and a delicatesse but in America's East Coast it's used mainly for pet food, although local restaurants trying more and more to promote it. So, if your local fishmonger should have it, it should literally be dirt cheap.
Hi, just want to say that I took the liberty to translate the subtitles to German (a "thank you" for all those great videos). Would be nice, if you would add, who translated what in the description, since I plan to translate more videos (and yes, because I'm vain). Regards, Fenriz... :-)
Hi I love your show and I've been watching for a long time! I was just wondering what type of grill did you use to cook the unagi? Is it a yakiami grill? It just looks closer to the stove top than what I've seen before =]
Sake is an alcoholic beverage made from fermented rice and it is one of the essential ingredients in Japanese cooking. :) The alcohol will evaporate while cooking but it will bring out the savory flavor of dishes. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sake Junior Mercado Nicaragua
+Cooking with Dog Please could you advise the best alcohol-free alternatives to cooking with sake and mirin? My relative is allergic to alcohol, so I generally settle for vinegar and sugar.
+Alexander Rowley there isn't really a sub for sake that I can find that doesn't have alcohol. you can make the dish without it but it doesn't taste the same.
+fpngan that's not actually completely true. There's always some residual amount left and it kinda impossible to take it all out without ruining the dish.
What good timing! I just found and bought frozen roasted unagi at the grocery. My daughter love it and orders it in restaurants a lot, but I wasn't sure how to cook it at home, so this is perfect! It looks delicious! Thank you!
A fabulously easy and diverse recipe: I love watching your videos at home. This is one I recipe I am definitely going to search out: if I can find the frozen Eel which I am sure I will be able to...keep cooking 'dog'. I also enjoy the 'easy and quick dashi stock' you made...it is usually many more steps and ingredients
using honey instead of sugar , interesting Also you can have the unagi sauce on beef steak and bacon , taste so good in london can get best raw eel from billingsgate market or straight from the fish market
Just a word of warning, the canned unagi is NOTHING like what is shown in the video. It's chewy, slightly pungent and a different breed of eel is used, so it's served in smaller pieces. If I could compare it to anything, I'd say that it tastes like rather overcooked anchovies cooked in teriyaki-esque sauce.
@CarefreeGirlie Your comment was far from a statement. And those type of comments are becomming frequent, attention seeking and most definitly annoying. If you want a thumbs up, come up with something people agree with not a comment ASKING for thumbs up. I rest my case.
Watching this is torture. I want to make that, all three versions, SO BAD! It makes me feel bad for Francis, what with him having to sit right in front of that amazing food and not be able to have some. I would attack that food right in front of the camera!
I love every thing you make but the only thing I don't like is the dog really I love pets but the kitchen is not place for animals I have small cat I love her so much butI don't allowed her to come in the kitchen
@speedtypermananswer I am young fresh japanese but love rice. the situation of japanese traditional food is like what you says. because traditonal foof is TOO TOO TOO expensive for the poor young ages. Unagi(eel) is too.
I cant have frozen roasted unagi... Only freach eal... I would like to know how roast it ? Cause when I tried, it was too "fatty" and unplaisant to eat... How do we get the dry texture? Thanks ! ^^
I thought so. I thought it seemed pretty ludicrous to add an ingredient just so it evaporates and leaves nothing behind. I knew it had to have left some kind of flavor, but I wanted to be sure.
Is unagi sold in the U.S.? Ive always wanted to try eel since watching an episode of samurai champloo where Jin makes fried eel on a stick. Where I live we have a food 4 less AND a save mart
That stove is used for hotpot or outdoor cooking but I think beacuse of the postion of the stove you see in the back.. its hard to film in that postion.. so they use portable stove
no need to apologize for the time between videos, francis!we anxiously await new ones, but they are always worth it no matter how long the wait!the dish looks yummy!
all i want to say is you MUST have a grill basket to make this. i dont have one and i didn't think the unagi would be as fragile as i thought it would be. it was hard to turn the unagi on the grill so get a grill basket b4 u make this. n yes i made this food but sadly it got burned :( .....
unagi is one of my most valued foods in the whole world xD i love it i love it! its not always cheap to get, but when im able to eat some grilled eel...MMMM~ @3@
Not sure if you'r being sarcastic, but if you are chill out. I've already gotten the answer. Please consider that all comments eventually are in the past.
@calic0o Unagi don and Hitsumabushi is almost same. Hitsumabushi uses Hitsu, a wooden container for cooked rice. Unagi don uses Don, a bowl for cooked rice. Additionally, they have some trivial differences. - うな丼と ひつまぶしは ほとんど同じです。 ひつまぶしは ひつが使われます。 うな丼は丼が使われます。 ほかにも、いくつかの ささいな違いがあります。
Unagi don was my favorite lunch in San Francisco. So so simple but irresistible. Recently I found an authentic Asian grocery store within reasonable driving distance (still a haul but worth every mile traveled). I shall seek this elusive frozen roasted eel.
I lol'd. Have you ever watched this cooking show before? The dog ALWAYS sits there and "narrates".That's why its called "cooking with dog" He is very well cared for (clearly hes clean, fed and well groomed) and please tell me what dog DOESN'T look at food and instantly want it even if they have just been fed 10 mins before? It doesn't mean he is mistreated. If I gave my dog scraps from my dinner every night, like he wants even though he's had food, the poor thing would weigh a ton. He's fine.
Fabulous recipe. I will try it with dashi powder. In Canada - we have a huge Asian population and in any large city can great find Asian stores. We also have TnT Supermarkets in the bigger cities which are the size of a WalMart but cater to all Asian cultures. Amazing selection of everything! I travel regularily to Japan/S.Korea and stopped bringing things home as they are all readily available here. However - I still bring back dried Tuna as it is really better from |Japan.
You're welcome! Interesting, my Canadian friend was just telling me about Quebec last night! I recently moved to a small town where there is no Asian market either. But I drive 1-2 hrs to the closest Asian markets and stock up every several months. I bet you can also try online shopping too, amazon has a lot of Asian groceries and Hmart does online orders. I don't know if they ship to Canada but maybe you have similar Asian grocery stores that do online orders? Good luck! :)
@MrKatanaKid you know, you could've also proven your point by not swearing, that way you show her that you are better then her ^^ and further.. I didn't really mind your comment even though I am a girl.. I'm used to stuff like that XD and it is true that you should have a woman that cooks well so you know she can handle children and give them some good food to eat. But that doesn't mean man can't cook either ^^
@svamppi No. Hitsumabushi is Hitsu(櫃)-Mabushi(まぶし). "Hitsu" means the container in which cooked rice is placed. It had been widely used until electric rice-cooker became common. "Mabushi" is the noun form of the verb Mabusu(まぶす), which means garnish, coat, sprinkle or something like that. My English dictionary doesn't have any fitting words in this context... You can see what Hitsu looks like on Google. Try image search by the term "お櫃".
oooohh man. one of my absolute favorite dishes. first tried this in a restaurant in nagoya that has specialised on this dish (like most of the restaurants in japan basically do one thing - but perfectly) - SEX IN A BOWL! I'm absolutely sure, everyone would love this, even if they don't like fish in general. unagi (eel) has a nice fat layer that produces this 'bacon-ish' flavour when roasted/grilled. together with that salty/sweet japanese sauce it's SOO pleasing even to the westeners taste!
@AthrunApl I didn't want to be racist or mean, sorry for people who were insulted! Still, it seems to be a regular meal for Asians (not sure about specific countries, I'm afraid) So there's nothing "mean" about a cheap joke like this. I am far from being racist. Probably that a person who hates Asians would have written something like "F*cking Asians, they don't know good food" THAT would have been mean or racist. By the way, nothing personal with you, AthrunApl. I'm just answering everybody :P
Actually, if I am not mistaken, most if not all Eel blood is poisonous to humans ( hence why you see BBQ eel sushi and not raw) Now of course cleaning and good preparation could reduce the risk but why take the chance? It requires tremendous skill to prepare and cook Eel as to avoid contact with the blood as well as to properly cook it to make it delicious and safely consumable.
Hello cookingwithdog!!! I've watched this video many times and said to myself "i'll definatley try it out once i visit Japan ^_^ although i have one question, in several videos, the sauce that chef prepares (sake, mirin, soy sauce and sugar) contain alcohol and i'm muslim from Dubai - so can you use a substitute for it??? Thanks :D
I'm sorry, what was so sexist about that? He didn't say anything sexist at all. All he said was "God bless women that can cook a decent meal." What's wrong wit woman being able to cook? It's not like he said woman belong in the kitchen or their only place to be is in the kitchen. Seriously, THINK BEFORE YOU COMMENT.
You're welcome! I wish I was a team member! I love Japanese food and love cooking! Dashi stock is made by soaking the 2 ingredients in hot water. Miso soup uses the same dashi stock. There is an excellent blog article (not mine) on making dashi stock, if you google "How To Make Dashi (Basic Japanese Sea Stock)", first link is the article. Good luck!~
@BlueShadowRealm Sea eel (Anago) is a good alternative, but your family may not like it either. Another problem is difficulty to get Kabayaki (Eel or Sea eel, baked with sauce) outside Japan. Even in Japan, Unagi Kabayaki is not that affordable food for everyday dinner, though. I imagine Chicken Teriyaki should give something closer.
@MillyVanillification mind you asian cuisine tend to have a sort of buffet arrangement during actual family dinner times, so little servings of multiple dishes is commonplace. Unlike here in europe (speciafically in the UK) we would only have 1 dish for the main course with other things like starters, salads and so on.
I have made this dish three times since I watched the video a few months ago. I love it! Unagi kabayaki can be difficult to find in some places. If there is a local Asian grocer in town, you could try asking them to carry it for you. I found several places you could order unagi kabayaki online, but you will pay a premium. Thanks for the video!
@ImaLanger You could adapt, that's half the fun of cooking. Even on the coast where there is a good-sized Japanese population I cannot find everything that is in these recipes so I try and make reasonable substitutions when I have to. The magic is in the skill of the cook, not the ingredients. I daresay that Heston Blumenthal could make a cowpat tasty.
