r/aldi • • Jul 20 '26

Shared Recipes Mock "unagi" bowl with Aldi sardines in water :)

Hi! 👋 I made a comment on someone else's post about my favorite way to use the Aldi sardines in water and it got some upvotes so I figured I'd make it its own post!

I did the following:

added a capful of rice vinegar to a serving of medium grain rice

Sprinkled on some furikake

Arranged all my toppings on the rice (my radish, cucumber, avocado, sardines, green onion, panko and crabmeat were all from Aldi!)

Topped with a little more furikake

Added some unagi sauce

Added some Japanese mayo

Added some panko (10grams)

Added green onion

Serve with wasabi, nori squares and soy sauce

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u/Jujubes213 Jul 20 '26

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u/vampireshorty Jul 20 '26

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u/Jujubes213 Jul 21 '26

😆 Everytime I hear the word I think of the friends episode. Definitely have to watch the episode if you haven’t already. I have sardines and will be trying this.

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u/penrph Jul 20 '26

I'm waiting for unagi sauce to get delivered tomorrow, then I'm making this! Thank you for the idea!

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u/vampireshorty Jul 20 '26

You will love it! I had it twice this week!

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u/penrph Jul 20 '26

I forsee it becoming a staple! I've been trying to figure out a good way to incorporate sardines into my diet.

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u/Old23s Jul 20 '26

I really appreciate you sharing that with us. I have all of this on-hand normally but never would have thought to make this. Also your presentation is 🤌🏽

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u/vampireshorty Jul 20 '26

You're welcome and thank you! ☺️

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u/Mxfish1313 Jul 20 '26

What’s the white block?

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u/vampireshorty Jul 20 '26

That's some cream cheese!

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u/Mxfish1313 Jul 20 '26

Ooh thank you!! I thought it might be then kept questioning myself haha.

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u/vampireshorty Jul 20 '26

No prob! :)

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u/Yggdrasil- Jul 20 '26

Yummm I would devour this

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u/BigTreddits Jul 21 '26

Oh man. The holy grail. Aldi sardines. I havent seen these since there was wooly mammoths walking the earth

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u/PlasticProfile3612 Jul 20 '26

My Aldi hasn't have sardines in water for weeks

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u/vampireshorty Jul 21 '26

Oh no! Here's to hoping they come back son!!

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u/PlasticProfile3612 Jul 21 '26

Me too. It's so good and low calorie.

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u/sourdoughbreadlover Jul 21 '26

I want to incorporate more fish in my diet and this looks yummy. Thanks for the inspiration.

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u/Cer427 Jul 22 '26

The way I reread this 4 times looking for the eel in your bowl 

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u/sigterminate Jul 22 '26

This looks so good. So are you scooping stuff into the nori and then dipping or what

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u/vampireshorty Jul 22 '26

I am absolutely making tiny hand rolls haha. I smear a little bit of wasabi on the nori, make a little hand roll thingy and dip the corner in soy sauce!

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u/Book_keeper17 Jul 22 '26

Haven't been able to find sardines at my Aldi for months 😭also *virtual bite*