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In Japan, most of the sauce's sweetness, and some complexity, is provided by mirin, a sweet cooking wine.
Caramel is as basic to the Vietnamese kitchen as stock is to the French, and it is most often used in savory, not sweet cooking.
If there is no Japanese market nearby, online sources, health food stores and some supermarkets can supply the basics, like mirin (a sweet cooking wine) and miso paste, as well as specialties like dried kombu (a seaweed) and bonito flakes.
Generally, I'm sceptical of claims that dried pulses and beans are so superior to their more convenient counterparts, but here it must be admitted that they make a real difference, because their earthy, slightly sweet cooking water then flavours the rice, and indeed the entire dish.
Since traditional mirin, or sweet cooking sake with 1% alcohol, is considered an alcoholic beverage, supermarkets carrymirin-fumi, ormirin-like sake, with up to 0.9% alcohol.
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It is Japanese in origin and loaded with the warmth of soy, ginger, sweetness (best provided by mirin, the sweet Japanese cooking wine, but sugar or honey will do, too), winter squash and the peel and juice of a lemon.
Most contain starchy sugars, so they brown beautifully and become sweet after cooking.
The sweet, hot cooking juices from the pork coat and wilt the bitter radicchio leaves, and the hazelnuts add a good crunch.
For Jewish women, this time of year means baking the special family dessert (often an apple or honey cake to encourage a sweet New Year), cooking Aunt Sadie's special beef brisket and potato, pulling out the sweet noodle pudding (kugel) recipe and making room arrangements to entertain at least double the amount of people for dinner than on any other night.
The banana (Musa spp ., including sweet and cooking bananas, is the number one tropical fruit, with a global production exceeding 100 million tons in 2006.
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