Saturday, December 16, 2006

How to make New Year "the dish boiled [ time-tested ] in soy and sugar" is introduced.

■ Material :

Chicken thighs Two sheets
Chestnut 12 pieces
Dried shiitake mushrooms Four-sheet vegetable oil Proper quantity
Reserved water used to reconstitute food of dried shiitake mushrooms 300 cc very-refined sugar Tablespoon 2
Alcohol Tablespoon 2
Soy sauce Tablespoon 3


■ Recipe ■


■1

Chicken thighs are cut to bite-sized pieces.

■ 2,

A chestnut strips off the skin and shiitake mushroom is cut in a half.

■ 3,

Oil is heated in a pan, and it browns beautifully brown on the surface of chicken, and also shiitake mushroom is added and stir-fried.

■ 4,

A seasoning and a chestnut are added to 3 and a drop-lid is placed.

■ 5,

It boils down until stock is lost, and if gloss comes out, it will complete.

Thursday, December 14, 2006

kurikinton

If it is called the representation of Japanese New Year food, there is "rice cakes in vegetable soup", but there is "kurikinton."


The meaning which puts "kurikinton" into "dishes for the New Year" is reminded of a golden lump, and there is an opinion of being used for the assorted refreshments of "New Year dishes" as what has the good luck which brings about prosperity in business and luck with money.


The indispensable recipe of "kurikinton" is introduced to "New Year dishes."


■ Material :

Sweet potato 500g
Fruit of a gardenia One piece
Very-refined sugar 250g
Salt A little
Candied food of a chestnut 5-6 pieces

■ 1,

A sweet potato turns to the skin more thickly and soaks it in full water.

■ 2,

The fruit of the gardenia wrapped in 1 and gauze is boiled until it becomes soft.

■ 3,

It crushes, after draining 2, sugar and nip of salt are added, it coats with glaze heating on low and mixing about 15 minutes, and, finally a chestnut is added.

Since a chestnut will require time if it is boiled, let's buy candied bottling etc.

It is a dish like the sweet sweets which boiled the chestnut.

rice cakes in vegetable soup

If it is called the representation of Japanese New Year food, there is "rice cakes in vegetable soup."

Application of the ingredient put into rice cakes in vegetable soup is possible.

The recipe of typical rice cakes in vegetable soup is introduced.


■ Material :
Carrot Two
Japanese radish 1/2
Japanese honewort 1/2 pack
Chicken 300g
Burdock One
Konnyaku One pack rice cake A part for the number

Broth 2000 cc
Soy sauce Tablespoon 5
Salt Teaspoons 1/2
Alcohol Tablespoon 3
Mirin Tablespoon 2

■ 1,

A carrot and a Japanese radish are cut into quarter-rounds, and a burdock is shaved, is exposed with water and boiled, respectively.

■ 2,
Japanese honewort is cut to about 2cm, and konnyaku is made small so that it may tear by the taste of a glass etc. Chicken is cut to bite-sized pieces.

■ 3,
if broth is poured over fire and it boils up -- Japanese honewort -- the ingredients of an except are paid, and a seasoning will be added if it boils up again.

■ 4,
Rice cake is boiled in another pan.

■ 5,

If fire passes in 3, rice cake will be piled in a vessel, Japanese honewort is put in, and it completes, applying 3.

the sweet red bean soup with mochi of coffee flavor

In Japan, rice cake is eaten in the New Year.

As a dish using rice cake, there are "sweet red bean soup with mochi", "rice cakes in vegetable soup", etc.

"Sweet red bean soup with mochi" is the clean sweetness, and is popular also with a child.

Here, "the sweet red bean soup with mochi of coffee flavor" is introduced.


Although it was an easy recipe, there was the little taste which devises and is different from usual,

■ Material : 2 persons

It boils and is an azuki bean can. 200g rice cake Four sheets
Water 1/2 cup
Instant coffee Tablespoon 1

■ Recipe

■ 1,

An azuki bean, water, and instant coffee are put into a pan, and it applies to fire.

■ 2,

it becomes brown rice cake -- a grade burns and it is made soft.

■ 3,

Rice cake and the juice of 1 are dished up in a vessel, and it completes in it.

A coffee scent is comfortable.

Stew of a chestnut and tofu-lees konnyaku

Stew of a chestnut and tofu-lees konnyaku

It is a dish using a chestnut and tofu-lees konnyaku.

It is effective in there being an effect which receives a chestnut the flow of blood or warms the body, and metabolism becoming good.

Since it is effective in otherwise preparing the tune of skin, a Japanese woman is fond and eats.


■ Material :

Tofu-lees konnyaku One pack
Shiitake mushroom Eight pieces
Bamboo shoot 100g
Chestnut (what was boiled) 16 pieces
Japanese leek One
Soy sauce Tablespoon 3
Alcohol Tablespoon 1
Sugar Teaspoon 2
Pepper Proper quantity
Base of a soup cube One piece
Water 400 cc


■ Recipe ■


■ 1,

Tofu-lees konnyaku sprinkles a little alcohol and soy sauce, it seasons before cooking, and shiitake mushroom is cut into strips.
■ 2,

A Japanese leek is sliced aslant. A bamboo shoot is cut into a comb type.

■ 3,

The juice of tofu-lees konnyaku is extracted, and it burns, lifts and carries out until a color sticks from more oil.

■ 4,

Soy sauce, alcohol, sugar, pepper, the base of a soup cube, and water are mixed.

■ 5,

The oil tablespoon 1 is put into a frying pan, vegetables are put in and stir-fried, and the tofu-lees konnyaku and the chestnut of 3 are added.

■ 6,

Adding the seasoning of 4 and skimming, it boils down and completes until juice is lost for 15 minutes.


Since konnyaku is low calorie content, it is used also as diet food.
The instant noodles made from konnyaku are popular with a woman in Japan.

Tuesday, December 12, 2006

year-crossing noodles



In Japan, before the year on December 31 begins, the custom of eating "buckwheat noodles" is.

Since a year is greeted eating "buckwheat noodles", the name "near" it is called "year-crossing noodles."

Year-crossing noodles eaten to the end of one year.

It is said that it is meaningful in "Eating life for the purpose of living a long, frugal life like a side."

Probably, it is a thing which must be a side why?

It is that the customs of year-crossing noodles spread in the middle of the Edo period. There are opinions various in fact.

Although some are introduced, since it is in others still more, it is surprised.


■1.

The opinion of eating noting that I will omit one year of difficulties since a side goes out easily.

■2.

The opinion of sharing the good luck of it since a side is a plant which will regain its footing shortly after hitting on a day, even if it hangs down in a rainstorm.


It is a recipe of such "year-crossing noodles" this time.


■ Material :
Broth 1000 cc
Soy sauce Tablespoon 4
Mirin Tablespoon 2
Side A part for the number
Shrimp tempura A part for the number

■ 1,

Soy sauce and mirin are put into broth and it applies to fire.

■ 2,

A side is boiled.

■ 3,
Shrimp tempura is lifted.

■ 4,
It dishes up.


Well [ application also of the noodles of a pasta is possible and ].



It is a dish in which the heart and the body get warm.

Popular one-pot dishes are introduced in Japan this time.

One-pot dishes are eaten in Japan in winter which gets cold.

One pan is especially eaten with a family, a friend, and a sweetheart.

It is a dish in which the heart and the body get warm.


■ Name of one-pot dishes :



■ Material :

Spinach Large one-bundle (400g) pork loin (for shabu-shabu) 400g
Alcohol Two cups
Spice
Japanese radish 1/6 (150g) chili pepper flakes A little
Omnipotent Welsh onion One
Lemon-soy sauce じょうゆ
Juice of Yuzu Tablespoon 3
Soy sauce Tablespoon 3

■1
A spinach cuts off a root and cuts it in a half.

■2
A Japanese radish is grated, red pepper is mixed, and a Welsh onion is chopped finely and soaked in water. The juice and soy sauce of Yuzu are mixed.

■ 3,

alcohol is boiled up with a clay pot for 1 to 2 minutes, water is added till the 7th minute of a pan, if it obtains with 沸 and carries out, 1 and meat will be put in, and it boils, skimming.
■ 4,

■ Attach and eat 2.

常夜鍋 is the one-pot dishes which set pork, a spinach, and Chinese cabbage as the center of the ingredient. Since pork is used, it may be called 豚しゃぶ and pig dust. The name of 常夜鍋 was named from the place it is supposed that is not got bored even if it eats every night.


The pan which filled water is covered with sea tangle, and pork, a spinach, and Chinese cabbage are put in and boiled well to the broth into which sake was put. It is delicious, even if there is no regular recipe and it puts in beef, chicken, shiitake mushroom and tofu, and spring rain. It may boil only by Japanese sake, without using water.

Friday, December 01, 2006

A potato cooked in miso

A potato cooked in miso

Potatoes are foods popular also in Japan.

In Japan, boil a potato, or it burns or eats by using a salad.
A potato is indispensable also to curry or a stew.

The Japanese-style dish using a potato is introduced this time.


Material :

Potato 300g
Ground chicken 100g
String beans 30g
Broth One cup
Alcohol Tablespoon 1
Sugar Tablespoon 1 bean paste 30g
Ground sesame Tablespoons 1/2

■1

A potato strips off the skin, cuts it to bite-sized pieces, is soaked in water, and drains.

■2

String beans are aslant cut to three division into equal parts, and are boiled quickly.
■3

After putting broth and the potato of 1 into a pan and boiling about 3 minutes, in addition, it skims, loosening ground chicken with chopsticks.

■4

A seasoning is added, and it boils until it covers with a dropping lid and a potato becomes soft over a weaker medium fire.

■5

Ground sesame and string beans are added, and it mixes quickly, and piles in a vessel.


Although they are made, even if it makes potatoes stewed with pork a dish-cooked-in-miso lump by such touch, they are delicious.

Since vitamin C is also contained also unexpectedly, potatoes are foods which are nutritionally excellent.

Let's make it catch efficiently!!