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Ingredients
- 3 Eggs
- 4 tsp Sugar
- 1 just to make the faces Black sesame seeds, shio-kombu
- 1 tsp Soy sauce
- 2 tsp Dashi stock
Method
- Mix the eggs, sugar, soy sauce and dashi stock together, and make a tamagoyaki (rolled omelette).
- Put it on a sushi mat lined with plastic wrap while still hot.
- Put a pair of chopsticks (that are square shaped at the thick end if possible) on top of the tamagoyaki with the ends pointing in opposite ends.
- The total thickness of the 2 chopsticks should be as even as possible.
- Adjust the chopsticks so that they sink into the tamagoyaki.
- Wrap the tamagoyaki with the sushi mat, secure with rubber bands and leave until cool.
- If the tamagoyaki has become cat-shaped, they're good to go.
- Cut into slices that are as thick as you want.
- Make the eyes and nose with black sesame seeds and the mouth with a piece of shio-konbu.
- Done!
- Each one has a different expression!
- They're even cuter with cheeks.
- If you put three of these in a bento, it becomes really fun and colorful.
- I tried turning the rather misshapen bits upright to make tadpoles.
- The red color on these is umeboshi.
- I used brown sugar in these, and they turned into tan colored kittens!
