JAPANESE FOOD RECIPES

Cold Somen Recipe

2009-07-05T08:39:00.001-07:00

Cold Somen ...a great Japanese Food Recipe to try !
Ingredients:

* 3/4 lb - 1 lb dried somen noodles
* *Mentsuyu (Japanese noodle dipping soup)
* *For toppings
* grated ginger, shiso leaves, myoga

Instructions :
Boil water in a large pan. Add dried somen noodles in the boiling water, gently stirring noodles with chopsticks. Boil somen noodles, following the package instructions. It usually takes a couple minutes to boil somen. If it's necessary, add a little bit of cold water in the pan to prevent overflowing.
Drain somen in a colander and cool them under running water.
Wash the noodles with hands under running water. Serve drained cold somen in a large serving bowl. Serve mentsuyu (noodle dipping soup) in individual cups and place some toppings, such
as grated giner, strips of shiso leaves, myoga slices on the side. The Japanese food recipe of somen is ready....nice !
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Pickled Ginger Recipe

2009-07-05T08:38:00.001-07:00

Pickled Ginger Recipe... a nice Japanese food recipe to try !
Ingredients:

* 2 lb fresh young ginger (shin shoga)
* 3 cups rice vinegar
* 2 cups sugar
* 2 tsps salt

Instructions:
Wash young ginger root and rub off skin. Slice the ginger thinly and salt them. Leave salted ginger slices in a bowl for one hour. Dry the ginger slices with paper towels and put them in a
sterilized container/jar. Mix rice vinegar and sugar in a pan and bring to a boil. Pour the hot mixture of vinegar and sugar over the ginger slices. Cool them. Pickled ginger changes its color to light pink. Cover the jar and store it in the refrigerator. The Japanese food recipe of pickled ginger is ready !
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Chirashizushi - Scattered Sushi Recipe

2009-07-05T08:32:00.000-07:00

Chirashizushi - Scattered Sushi Recipe ...a nice Japanese food recipe to try !

Ingredients:

* 2 1/4 cups Japanese rice
* (1/4 cup vinegar, 2 Tbsp sugar, 1 tsp salt)
* 3 eggs and 1/2 Tbsp sugar
* 1 cucumber, julienned
* 1/2 lb tuna sashimi slices, marinated in 2 Tbsp of soy sauce and a little bit of wasabi (if you would like)
* 8 dried shiitake mushrooms, rehydrated in 2 cups of warm water *keep the water for cooking
* ( 1 Tbsp soy sauce, 1 Tbsp sugar, 1 tsp mirin)
* 2 oz imitation crab, shredded
* 2 Tbsp white sesame seeds

INSTRUCTIONS
Prepare sushi rice. Remove stems from shiitake and slice thinly.
Heat 2/3 cup of the water used for rehydrating shiitake in a medium pan. Add shiitake and soy sauce, sugar, and mirin. Simmer shiitake on low heat until the liquid is almost gone. Set aside.
Beat eggs in a bowl and add 1/2 Tbsp of sugar. Oil a medium skillet and pour a scoop of egg mixture and make a thin omelette like a crape. Make a few sheets. Cut the omelettes into thin
strips. Serve sushi rice on a large plate or invividual bowls.

Spread simmered shiitake, cucumber, imitation crab meat, and omelettes strips over rice. Place tuna sashimi on top. Sprinkle sesame seeds. Serve pickled ginger on the side. Enjoy it !
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Pork Spring Roll Recipe

2008-12-28T08:00:00.001-08:00

Pork Spring Roll Recipe... a nice Japanese food recipe....!

INGREDIENTS:

* 1/4 pound ground pork
* 1 cup bean sprouts
* 1/2 cup boiled strips of bamboo shoots
* 4-5 dried shiitake mushrooms
* 1 oz. harusame (bean starch noodles) or cellophane noodle
* 1 tsp grated ginger
* 2 tbsps vegetable oil
* 1 tbsp cornstarch
* 2/3 cup chicken soup
* 1 1/2 tbsps soy sauce
* 1 tsp sugar
* 1 tsp sesame oil
* 2 tbsps sake rice wine
* mixture of 1 tbsp water and 1 tbsp cornstarch
* 10 egg roll wrappers
* mixture of 1 tsp flour and 1 tbsp water
* vegetable oil of frying

INSTRUCTIONS
Soak dried shiitake mushrooms in water for 30 min. to soften. Sprinkle cornstarch over pork meat and stir the meat. Boil starch nooldes (harusame) in a pan for a min. and drain. Cut the noodles into 3-inch length. Cut shiitake into thin strips. Heat oil in a frying pan and add ginger and saute. Add pork meat in the pan and saute well. Further, add shiitake and bean sprout and saute. Add chicken soup, sugar, soy sauce, sesame oil, and sake in the pan. Add starch noodles in the pan and simmer. When it boils, add mixture of water and cornstarch and stir well. Place the filling into a bowl and cool. Put 1-2 tbsps of filling on an egg roll wrapper. Fold one side over the filling to cover. Further, fold both sides of the wrapper over and roll to the edge. Seal the edge with the mixture of flour and water. Heat oil in a deep pan and fry spring rolls in 360 F until it's brown. The Japanese food recipe of spring roll is ready to serve....enjoy the appetizers !
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Fried Wonton Recipe

2008-12-28T07:57:00.001-08:00

Fried Wonton Recipe...a great Japanese food recipe ...try it ! Arigato !

Ingredients:

* 20 wonton wrappers
* 20 small cubes process cheese
* 8 shiso leaves
* Vegetable oil for frying

INSTRUCTIONS
Cut shiso leaves in halves. Place a piece of shiso and a cube of cheese in the center of a wonton wrapper. Fold the wonton wrapper in half diagonally, shaping into a triangle. Seal the edge well. Heat oil to 375 degrees F and deep-fry the wonton until brown. * Makes 20 pieces. The Japanese food recipe of wonton is ready....enjoy it !
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Chicken Tsukune Recipe

2008-12-28T07:56:00.001-08:00

Chicken Tsukune Recipe (deep-fried)

Tsukune are round or oval-shaped meat balls Japanese food recipe made by kneading ground meat with other ingredients. Tsukune can be fried, simmered, or grilled. Chicken meat balls are deep-fried in this tsukune recipe.

INSTRUCTIONS

* 1 pound ground chicken
* 1 egg
* 4 shiitake mushrooms
* 1/4 onion
* 1 tbsp soy sauce
* 2 tsp mirin
* 1/2 tsp salt
* 1 tsp fresh ginger juice
* 1/4 cup bread crumb
* *vegetable oil for frying

INSTRUCTIONS
Chop onion and shiitake mushrooms. Mix chopped onion, shiitake, chicken, soy sauce, mirin, ginger juice, salt, egg, and bread crumbs in a bowl. Mix well and make small balls. Heat oil in a deep-frying pan and deep-fry meat balls until they are brown. The Japanese food recipe of tsukune is ready to serve....arigato ! Nice one !
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Chicken Tatsuta Recipe

2008-12-28T07:48:00.000-08:00

Chicken Tatsuta Recipe

Chicken Tatsuta is a Japanese food -style fried chicken. Tatsuta indicates a way of cooking, which is a type of deep frying. After marinating meat/fish, sprinkle the meat with Japanese katakuri-ko (dogtooth violet starch) before frying. You can use corn starch if you don't have katakuriko.

Ingredients:

* 4 chicken thighs
* 3 tbsps soy sauce
* 2 tbsps sake
* 1 tbsps mirin
* 2 tsps fresh ginger juice
* 1/3 cup corn starch/flour/Japanese katakuriko starch
* vegetable oil for frying

INSTRUCTIONS
Cut chicken thighs into bite-sized pieces. Peel ginger and grate it, then squeeze it to take some juice. Mix saysauce, mirin, sake, and ginger juice in a bowl. Marinate chicken pieces in the sauce for 30min. Take out chicken from the sauce and pat lightly with paper towels. Preheat oil in 330 F in a deep pan. Lightly dust chicken with flour/corn starch and fry them. When chicken pieces are cooked well, remove from the pan and drain. *Be careful not to fry in high temperature, since soy sauce tends to burn easily. The Japanese food recipe is ready to serve..
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Chirashizushi Recipe

2008-12-28T07:45:00.000-08:00

Chirashizushi ...a great Japanese food Recipe to try ! Chirashizushi is a kind of sushi, which is colorful sushi.

Ingredients:

* 3 cups sushi rice
* 4 shiitake mushrooms
* 1/2 cucumber
* 3/4 cup dashi soup
* 3 eggs
* raw tuna/salmon slices
* boiled shrimp
* 2 tbsps mirin
* 1 tbsp soysauce
* 3 tsps sugar

INSTRUCTIONS
Prepare sushi rice. Put dashi soup, mirin, soysauce, and sugar(2tsps) in a pan. Add shiitake mushrooms in the pan and simmer untilthe liquid is gone. Cool the simmered shiitake mushrooms and slice them thinly. Beat eggs and add sugar(1 tsp). Pour one scoop of egg mixture into a frying pan and make a thin omelette like a paper.
Make a few sheets. Cut the omelettes into thin strips. Cut thecucumber into thin strips. Serve sushi rice on a bowl or a large plate. Spread shiitake mushrooms, cucumber, and omelettes strips
over the rice. Place raw tuna/salmon slices and boiled shrimps on top of the ingredients. The Japanese food recipe is ready to serve with pickled ginger on the side. Enjoy it !

Inarizushi Recipe

2008-12-28T07:03:00.000-08:00

Inarizushi Recipe

The Japanese food of Inarizushi is known as brown bag sushi. Sushi rice is packed in seasoned aburaage (fried tofu) pouches.

Ingredients:

* *For sushi rice:
* 1 1/2 cup Japanese rice
* 1 2/3 cup water
* 3 Tbsp vinegar
* 1 1/2 Tbsp sugar
* 1/2 tsp salt
* 2 Tbsp white sesame seeds
* *For cooking aburaage
* 6 abura-age (fried tofu)
* 1 cup dashi soup stock
* 2 1/2 Tbsp sugar
* 2 Tbsp mirin
* 2 Tbsp soy sauce

INSTRUCTIONS
Start cooking rice. Put aburaage into boiling water for a moment to remove the excess oil. Drain and dry with paper towels. Cut the aburaage in halves so that each piece have an open end. Put dashi soup stock, sugar, mirin, and soy sauce in a pan and bring to a boil. Add aburaage in the pan and lower the heat. Put a lid and simmer until the liquid is alomost gone. Stop the heat and let them cool for a while. Prepare sushi rice. Mix sesame seeds in the sushi rice. Wet your hands and make small mounds of sushi rice. Take a piece of aburaage and lightly press to remove the excess liquid. Open the pouch and stuff a mound of sushi rice inside. Fold in the open side to close the pouch. The Japanese food of inarizushi is ready to serve....great taste ! Enjoy !