Tsukudani of Nori and Sansho

The Tsukudani is a culinary preparation, based on seaweed or seafood, fish, crustacean, meat or vegetable that has been long simply, confirmed, in a sweet and salty sauce, usually with sauce soy, sugar, mirin.
It usually has a sweet and intense salty flavor, which keeps the ingredients.

Because of its strong flavor, the Tsukudani is served as an accompaniment of steam cooked rice since the EDO period (1600-1800). It is called GOHAN NO OKAZU or Flat accompaniment to rice because it is consumed with steam cooked rice to perfume it.

The Tsukudani is always served and eaten fresh, leaving the refrigerator, and will not be annealing before being consumed.