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Home / Courses / Appetizer & Snack / Inarizushi

Inarizushi

By: 👩‍🦳 Linda · Published: 🖨 February 21, 2010 · Updated: 💻May 5, 2017 · 🗨 13 Comments

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Inarizushi – sushi rice stuffed in sweet soy sauce flavored tofu pouches. They are the perfect food on-the-go and are fun and tasty to eat.

Inarizushi - sushi rice stuffed in sweet soy sauce flavored tofu pouches. They are the perfect food on-the-go and are fun and tasty to eat. | RotiNRice.com

Sushi has really gained popularity in the past decade. Once only savored at Japanese restaurants and made specially by trained sushi chefs, they can now be found even at your local grocery store. Arguably, the quality may not be the same but most are pretty decent for everyday fare. Many have also learned to make their own at home. You can do it too with a little patience and practice. Do give it a try.

There are many different types of sushi out there. Inarizushi is probably the easiest one to make. It is very popular with kids and is often placed into bento boxes. To make Inarizushi, you need only seasoned abura-age (fried tofu pouches) and vinegared rice. Abura-age can be purchased at Asian grocery stores carrying Japanese or Korean products. They usually come frozen but some stores do carry fresh ones. Prepared or seasoned abura-age are very convenient and can be found in the refrigerated section.

Inarizushi - sushi rice stuffed in sweet soy sauce flavored tofu pouches. They are the perfect food on-the-go and are fun and tasty to eat. | RotiNRice.com

Easy and delicious Chirashi zushi topped with nori, shredded egg, tofu pockets, seasoned mushrooms, sliced green beans, lox, and fish roe. Very yummy! | RotiNRice.com

Chirashi zushi (scattered sushi) is another easy sushi to make as the ingredients are simply arranged attractively on top of a bowl or container of vinegared rice. By contrast, nigiri-zushi (hand-molded sushi) found most often at Japanese restaurants is probably the hardest to prepare. It takes skill to mold that little block of vinegared rice which is then topped with a slice of seafood or meat.

Maki-zushi (sushi rolls) are the most popular and commonly found. They are also the kind of sushi that is most attempted by home cooks. They come in two sizes, futomaki (thick rolls) and hosomaki (thin rolls). Futomaki is thicker with several ingredients wrapped in the middle while hosomaki is thinner and only has one or two ingredients.

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Uramaki (inside-out rolls) is stunning with the vinegared rice on the outside but this is a little more challenging to make.

Other types of sushi include kazarimaki (decorative rolls) which are in a class of its own. These rolls require creativity and patience to prepare. Finally, there are the cone-shaped hand rolls known as temaki. This type of sushi is most favored for make-your-own sushi parties as they are pretty much free form and relatively easy to prepare.

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Today, we will attempt this easy Inarizushi. I used 10 seasoned and 5 fresh tofu pockets. The darker colored ones you see in the picture below are the pre-seasoned tofu pockets. You already have half the work done for you if you can find these convenient tofu pockets. They are very well seasoned. Just prepare the vinegared rice as per my uramaki post and continue with the remaining instructions in the recipe. I mixed some black sesame seeds into the rice for contrast of texture and color but you can leave it plain if preferred.

Inarizushi - sushi rice stuffed in sweet soy sauce flavored tofu pouches. They are the perfect food on-the-go and are fun and tasty to eat. | RotiNRice.com

The recipe below was adapted from Japanese Cooking by Emi Kazuko.

Inarizushi - sushi rice stuffed in sweet soy sauce flavored tofu pouches. They are the perfect food on-the-go and are fun and tasty to eat. | RotiNRice.com
4.84 from 6 votes

Inarizushi

Inarizushi - sushi rice stuffed in sweet soy sauce flavored tofu pouches. They are the perfect food on-the-go and are fun and tasty to eat.
Author : Linda Ooi
Course : Appetizer, Snack
Cuisine : Japanese
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Prep Time 30 minutes mins
Cook Time 15 minutes mins
Total Time 45 minutes mins
Servings : 5
Calories : 331kcal

Ingredients
  

  • 10 abura-age (fried tofu pouches)
  • 1½ cups water (360ml)
  • 2 tsp dashi
  • 2 tbsp soy sauce
  • 2 tbsp sugar
  • 1 tbsp sake
  • 1 portion vinegared rice please refer to Uramaki post
  • 1 tbsp sesame seeds (black or white)

Instructions
 

  • Prepare vinegared rice as per Uramaki post. While rice is cooking, prepare the tofu pouches.
  • In a medium sized pot, bring about half pot of water to boil. Add tofu pouches and boil for 1 to 2 minutes. This is to remove excess oil. Remove tofu pouches and allow them to cool.
  • Squeeze out excess water, and cut off a small section, about ¼ of one side of each tofu pouch. Gently pull open at the slit to make pouches.
  • Pour away the water used to boil tofu pouches. Bring 1½ cups (360ml) water to boil. Add dashi, soy sauce, sugar, and sake. Return tofu pouches back to pot. Simmer for 15 minutes. Remove and drain tofu pouches.
  • Mix vinegared rice with sesame seeds in a wet bowl or tub. Wet hands, take a generous amount of rice and shape into a rectangular block. Open one tofu pouch and insert the block of rice.
  • Neatly tug or fold in the edges of the tofu pouch.
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  • To serve, place rice side down on a dish.

Notes

If you are using seasoned tofu pockets (ajitsuke inari kantofu), skip all the tofu preparation steps.

Nutrition

Calories: 331kcal
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Inarizushi - sushi rice stuffed in sweet soy sauce flavored tofu pouches. They are the perfect food on-the-go and are fun and tasty to eat. | RotiNRice.com

Two pieces of Inarizushi and a cup of green tea is perfect for lunch. Any leftovers may be frozen and reheated for 1½ minutes in the microwave. That rarely ever happens at our house unless it is planned for. 😉

Inarizushi - sushi rice stuffed in sweet soy sauce flavored tofu pouches. They are the perfect food on-the-go and are fun and tasty to eat. | RotiNRice.com

Please do check out my two other posts in this series – Onigiri with Jyuntoro and Maki-zushi.

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Simple and tasty homemade rolled sushi or Maki-zushi filled with Nova lox and tender asparagus. Full instructions with step-by-step pictures. | RotiNRice.com

Inarizushi - sushi rice stuffed in sweet soy sauce flavored tofu pouches. They are the perfect food on-the-go and are fun and tasty to eat. | RotiNRice.com

NOTE: This post was updated on February 27th, 2014 with new pictures and additional write-up. Only minor changes were made to the recipe.

Enjoy…..and have a wonderful day! 😎

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  1. A 2 Z Vegetarian Cuisine says

    February 21, 2010 at 8:13 pm

    5 stars
    They look absolutely delicious..very nicely presented..

    Reply
  2. 5 Star Foodie says

    February 23, 2010 at 2:22 am

    Great to learn about different kinds of sushi! The Inari-zushi look so yummy in the fried tofu pouches!

    Reply
  3. Joy says

    February 23, 2010 at 3:08 am

    5 stars
    INARI my favoooriiiite!!! I love these sushis because they are easy to make and the tofu skin is so flavorful. It pairs really well with the slightly vinegared rice.

    Reply
    • Betty says

      February 16, 2022 at 12:27 pm

      5 stars
      Love these little fellows

      Reply
  4. Biren says

    February 23, 2010 at 1:29 pm

    A2Z Vegetarian Cuisine – Thank you!

    5 Star Foodie – I really enjoy Japanese cuisine. There is so much to learn. Inari-zushi is one of my favorites as I love tofu 🙂

    Joy – Yes, inari is really delightful. Also my favorite!

    Reply
  5. Sanjana says

    July 14, 2010 at 4:10 pm

    5 stars
    I love inari-zushi- so simple and really delicious. Thanks for the recipe. I can't wait to have a go at home.

    Reply
  6. Amanda@chewtown says

    August 13, 2012 at 3:23 am

    I love sushi and eat Japanese food for most of my weekly meals – but will all the wonderful sushi and sashimi out there, inari-zushi are my all time favourite – it must be the sweetness of the tofu.

    I am ashamed to say, I haven’t actually tried making it. Following your blog now in the hopes of more inspiration.

    Reply
    • Biren says

      August 16, 2012 at 3:40 pm

      Thanks Amanda for visiting and following! I love inari sushi too as tofu is one of my favorite things. I hope you will give it a try. It is not difficult to make. 🙂

      Reply
  7. Dee says

    July 16, 2016 at 2:08 am

    Hi Linda! I’m situated in Malaysia and have been hunting high and low for the Inari pouches! Do you know where I can get them here? My mom and I LOVE inari sushi and I’d like to make it. thank you!

    Reply
    • Linda says

      July 16, 2016 at 10:05 am

      Try looking for the tofu pouches at the refrigerated section of Isetan Food Market, KLCC or Tokyo Street Pavilion and Japanese Supermarket also in KLCC. I hope you find them. We love inari zushi too. 🙂

      Reply
  8. Bridget says

    August 12, 2017 at 5:19 am

    4 stars
    Great post i’ll definitely give it a try, how many calories would one piece be do you think? I had a few at a sushi train and I’m just trying to get a rough idea

    Reply
    • Linda says

      October 4, 2017 at 8:52 am

      It is about 150 calories per piece.

      Reply
  9. alexd says

    June 28, 2022 at 8:28 pm

    5 stars
    This stuff is delicious. It’s easy to make and “stuffs” well. Too bad only I eat them at home so I had to chop down the recipe and prepare only 4 or 6 at the time… they don’t do well more than a few hours in the fridge: it gets dry.
    Anyway, thank you for the recipe. I find myself preparing it quite often.

    Reply

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