Friday, October 28, 2011

Okinawan stir-fry dish, champuru!

Hi.
Today's recipe which I introduce to you is Okinawan stir-fry dish, champuru!
Its name is... "the champuru made of tofu and bell pepper!"
OK now, I'll show you the ingredients.
Serves 4
Coarse-grained tofu---300g
Bell pepper---5
Ham---5 slices of ham
Beaten egg---beaten egg of 1 egg
Dried bonito---1 pack of dried bonito (2.5g)
Sesame oil---suitable quantity
Crazy salt---proper amount (You can use a normal salt and pepper.)
(A)Soy sauce---one half of teaspoon
(A)Sake---one half of teaspoon
1. Tear coarse-grained tofu in bite-size pieces. Put them on the paper towel, and strain off the water from them.
2. Cut the ham into little pieces. After that, sprinkle (A) over the ham, and mix them.
3. Cut the bell peppers into halves. And cut them into little pieces like the picture above shows.
The dressing is finished!
4. Stir-fry the bell peppers, and add Crazy salt into the pan. After that, take out them from the pan to the plate.
5. Add ham and coarse-grained tofu into the pan. Fry tofu like burning.
6. Return the bell peppers to the pan, and add Crazy salt.
7. Add beaten egg and dried bonito, and mix them up.
Completion!
You think it looks not so good? But the taste is so nice! I like this dish, and I have cooked this many times. I think dressing of the bell peppers is a little bit trouble, but it is worth the trouble because this dish is really delicious.
I learned that it is important to strain off the water from tofu. But you don't need to be so serious about straining off the water from tofu.
I also learned that it is significant to care about the amount of Crazy salt because too much salt is not good for our health.
If you like this recipe, please try to make it! I'm sure it's tasty!
See you!

Friday, October 21, 2011

Food boiled and seasoned!

Hi.
Today's recipe is a little bit difficult and takes over 30 minutes.
The recipe is "pork and taro's boiled and seasoned!"
Right then, let me introduce you the ingredients of the recipe.
Sliced pork belly---125g
Frozen taro---about 250 to 300g
Dried bonito---2.5g
Honewort---3 to 4
Ground white sesame---one half of tbsp
Red pepper (cayenne pepper)---proper amount
(A)Sugar---one half of tbsp
(A)Sake---one and one half of tbsp
(A)Sweet sake for seasoning---one and one half of tbsp
(A)Soy sauce---one and one half of tbsp
1. Cut the sliced pork bellies into 6 to 7cm long.
2. Heat the frozen taroes up by microwave oven until they are tender.
3. Put the dried bonito into three fourth cup of boiling water and make the instant soup stock.
4. Put the sliced pork bellies into the pan and cook them with a moderate fire. When the color of the meat changed, turn them over and cook.
5. Then, add (A) into the pan, and mix them.
6. Add No.3 straining with basket, and boil it. After that, add taroes, cut taroes in half, and give it a good boil to make them absorb the soup.
7. If the soup runs out, make (A) again and add it. And boil the contents in the pan until they become tasty.
8. When you think they are okay, dish up the contents in the pan.
9. Put chopped honeworts, ground white sesame, and red pepper on the pork and taroes.
Completion!
It takes about 20 minutes to soak up the soup into the taroes, and it's a little bit work.
But the taste is so good, so please try to make it if you like it!
I learned that the sliced pork bellies had a lot of oil, and I didn't have to add oil when I cooked the meat.
Also, I learned that it takes a lot of time to absorb the soup into the taroes.
Then, see you!

Saturday, October 15, 2011

My favorite dish!

Hi!
This time I'll introduce you the recipe which is my favorite!
The recipe is... "an omelet containing fried rice!"
Yes, it's "omu-rice" in Japanese, and I love it.
Then, I'll show you the ingredients right now.
Serves 2
Rice---2 rice paddles of rice
Vienna sausage---9 to 10 small Vienna sausage
Onion---one half
Egg---4
Ketchup---suitable quantity
Crazy solt (You can use normal solt and pepper)---proper amount
Butter---suitable amount
Sesame oil---proper quantity
1. Make the Japanese omelet. Hmm... it doesn't look so good...
But I won't give up! Next!
2. Mince the onion, and fry it with butter until it becomes brown and translucent like the fourth picture.
3. Add the ketchup into the pan, and mix the ketchup and the onion.
Here's the point!
If you heat the ketchup before you mix the ketchup with other ingredients, they don't become watery!
That's the reason why I put the ketchup into the center of the pan.
4. Cut the Vienna sausage into little pieces.
5. Add the Vienna sausage into the pan, add the ketchup, and mix them well. After that, add the Crazy solt proper amount.
6. Get ready to add rice.
7. Add rice, ketchup, and the Crazy solt, and mix them up. Season the rice with the ketchup and the Crazy solt.
8. Dish the rice up.
9. Cover the rice with Japanese omelet.
10. Write or draw something on Japanese omelet, and completion!
I tried to write "omurice," but I could write only "om." However, you can see "urice" in the air because you are imaginative!
Usually, you may use the chicken in the rice, but I use the Vienna sausage instead of the chicken, and it goes with the ketchup rice! Using the Vienna sausage is easier maybe, so I recommend you to use the Vienna sausage in the rice.
I learned that it is difficult to make the Japanese omelet fluffy, but it is important not to give up.
I need to keep in practice in making Japanese omelet.
If you like this recipe, please try to make it, and tell me what you wrote/drew on Japanese omelet!
See you again!

Saturday, October 8, 2011

Delicious Chicken!

Hi.
Today, I will introduce you a recipe I tried.
The title of the recipe is...
"Chicken and beansprouts thickened with powdered kudzu."
Let me introduce you the ingredients right now.
Serves 2
Chicken's breast meat---2 large
(A)Consomme cube---1
(A)Soy sauce and sweet sake for seasoning---1 teaspoon each
(A)Sake---1 tbsp
(A)Water---4 tbsp
Beansprout---120 grams
Cherry tomato---5 to 6
Starch
Sesame oil
Crazy solt(You can use a normal solt and black pepper)
1. Cut into the meat and make its thickness evenly. And put the Crazy solt on both sides of the meat steadly.
2. Cut 1 piece of the meat into 2 pieces. Rub the Crazy solt into both sides of the meat.
3. Roast the meat with sesame oil at a moderate fire for 7 minutes.
4. Wipe the oil off and turn the meat, and roast them for 5 minutes.
5. Cut 1 piece of the meat into 3 pieces, and dish them up.
6. Remove the stems of cherry tomatoes, and cut them in half. And boil (A) in the frying pan, then put beansprouts and the tomatoes and boil them. After that, put the starch to the pan.
7. Sprinkle No.6 over the meat.
Completion! It looks delicious, doesn't it?
This was so good, but for me, a little bit too much.
I learned that it takes a lot of time to make the meat well-done. Also, I learned that using Crazy solt is very important because solt and pepper make the meat so juicy.
I recommend this dish to those who love the meat!
If you like this, please try it!
See you!