Corn and Chicken Laksa. Chicken Tikka Masala Recipe. Sweet and Sour Chicken Recipe. How To Make Bento. Many of Just One Cookbook readers have asked me to write a post about how to make bento since last year.
How to Spice Up Any Meal. Literally. This is a post from NF Rebel Chef Noel.
Remember those diagrams of the tongue that you learned about in school? They told you the tongue tasted different flavors depending on the section. The back tastes bitter, the front tastes sweet, and the sides taste salty and sour. 1. Bitter 2. Most of us now know this is wrong. There is another lie that has been circulating the fitness world for years. We know diet is 80% of the battle when it comes to achieving our health and fitness goals. Just like the squat and deadlift adhere to the 80-20 rule, today we’re going over some basic skills that will allow you to see maximal benefit for minimal effort. Oknomiyaki. Two approaches to katsu sando, plus more Japanese sandwiches. Last week, I wrote about tonkatsu, deep fried pork cutlets, for The Japan Times.
I did do several ‘test cutlets’ for the article, and most of them were consumed happily by Mr. Guy. He used a small one in this Guy Does Bento, and a couple ended up as katsu sando, or tonkatsu sandwiches. You’ll readily encounter in katsu sando in Japan - in konbini (convenience stores), bakeries, supermarkets and department store food halls.
Katsu sando are always served cold or at room temperature, so the cutlet inside is not hot. Here are two of the better ones. Pan-fried lemon chicken nuggets. Although I use chicken quite a lot in my bentos, I realized that I have very few bento-appropriate chicken recipes up here on Just Bento, or even over on Just Hungry.
I am going to rectify this situation over the next few days, so if you are a chicken fan, stay tuned! The first chicken recipe is one I have made for years and years - tender, lemony white meat nuggets that are infused with lemon. They very quick to make, good hot or cold, and versatile. They are pan fried, not deep-fried, so they are not crispy on the outside, but are delicious nevertheless.
You can use them in a rice based bento, with noodles, or as a sandwich filling. Chicken Nanban 2 ways. Chicken nanban is fried chicken that’s been briefly marinated in a sweet-sour-salty and slightly spicy sauce or dressing called nanban sauce.
The recipe for basic, make-ahead-and-stock nanban sauce is over on Just Hungry. Chicken Nanban 2 ways. Homemade Sakura Denbu - sweet, pink, fluffy fish flakes. Sakura denbu (桜田麩) is a sweet-salty, fluffy pink flaked fish condiment - a sort of fish furikake - that is used in sushi rolls as well as to decorate various rice dishes.
It’s used quite often in spring, because of its dainty appearance and cherry-blossom pink color. (Sakura means cherry blossom or tree.) You can buy it in little packets at any Japanese grocery store, but commercial sakura denbu usually has MSG and various preservatives in it. Plus, it’s rather expensive at my local Japanese grocery store. Japanese Scotch Egg. First off, I haven’t actually uploaded a complete bento here in ages, so here is one!
It features Japanese Scotch eggs, which you see in the near-most box. (The rest of the bento consists of cucumber slices with sea salt; a carrot and celeriac salad; onigiri with umeboshi filling; banana and mini-cupcakes. The whole bento is about 1100 calories - I intended it to be for 2, but ended up eating the whole thing by myself!) The original Scotch egg is a British pub snack, made by wrapping a hardboiled egg in sausage meat and deep frying it. Stuffed Pan Fried Hanpen, 'foxy' light fish cakes. There are many kinds of fish cakes in Japan, and most of them are available readymade.
One of my favorites is hanpen (はんぺん). Hanpen usually comes in single packs. Here’s one I bought at a Japanese grocery store. The hanpen itself looks like this. Hanpen is made of ground up white fish (surimi), grated yamaimo (a type of yam, the same one that’s used to give a light texture to okonomiyaki, egg white and sals. Miso Marinated Pork (butaniku no misozuke) Something for the omnivores!
Pork is the most popular meat in Japanese cooking, but so far I haven’t posted any (non-bacon) pork recipes on Just Bento, though I do have a couple over on Just Hungry that are bento-friendly, such as tonkatsu (breaded and fried pork cutlets). This classic sweet-salty, intensely flavored miso marinated pork is really well suited to bentos. Shrimp Tatsutaage: Japanese Crispy Fried Shrimp. These light and crispy shrimp are fairly low in calories, even though they are fried.
You only need about 1 cm / 1/2 an inch of oil to fry these in a regular frying pan, so don’t be afraid to try them even if you don’t do much deep-frying. They are very easy to make with frozen shrimp, and just a bit more work with fresh shrimp. Recipe: Shrimp Tatsuaage Adapted from a recipe in Today’s Cooking: Beginners magazine. Each shrimp is about 30-40 calories depending on how well you drain off the oil. Chicken Karaage: Japanese Fried Chicken. A revised and updated recipe! In the 7 years since I originally posted this recipe, chicken karaage has gotten much better known in the western world. In the U.S. a lot of people now call it JFC, or Japanese Fried Chicken. I've tweaked the recipe a bit and cleared up the instructions, but fundamentally it's the same recipe I learned from my mom, decades ago.
This is my absolute favorite way to make, and eat, fried chicken. Unlike other types of fried chicken, karaage never leaves me feeling greasy and slightly gross afterwards. The kara part of the word karaage refers to China, meaning that this method of preparing chicken was probably inspired by China. The Guy's Two-Step Nikujaga (Japanese meat and potatoes) It’s been a long while, but yes, I am back blogging! This is a simple recipe for nikujaga, or Japanese style stewed meat and potatoes, from The Guy. Initially he was following the basic recipe I had given him, but he decided to pare it down so that he didn’t have to look at the instructions every time he made it. Spinach Tamagoyaki (Spinach-packed omelette) This is a very easy to make tamagoyaki (Japanese style omelette) that is chock full of spinach. Even spinach doubters may like this, since the egg, onion and garlic neutralize the iron-rich quality which some people have problems with.
Bento for Cheap Bastards. Several weeks ago, I wrote a cheap bento guide on my journal. I got a decent response, and I’ve finally decided to move it over here, and update it a bit. In short order (read: a week or so) I’ll be testing some of the containers listed and updating with firsthand data. I love bento. It’s healthy, it’s relaxing, and it’s nourishing. Working Mother. Flower Power! A simple sandwich blooms with cheese, fruit and veggies cut in flower shapes with cookie cutters. Pack open-faced and let your kiddo put it together at lunch time. Cut veggie slices with a smaller cutter. Press a flower cutter into an apple, just hard enough to score the peel, then slide a paring knife under the scored edge to remove the flower shape.
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Oyakodon Recipe. Candied Sweet Potatoes. Fall is here and it’s my favorite season of the year. I love how leaves turn into beautiful colors and make joyful crackling sounds as you step on them. Miso and Japanese / Asian Food - Hikari Miso Co., Ltd. Yakisoba is a perfect quick meal everyone loves. Tazukuri (Candied Sardines) I feel a bit odd to post recipes for Japanese New Year foods, Osechi Ryori (おせち料理), even before Christmas has arrived. These two holidays are really close to each other so I hope you don’t mind me starting to share the osechi ryori recipes early because I have prepared several dishes this year.
Ramen Egg 味付け玉子. There seems to be a ramen craze sweeping the US lately. No, I am not referring the instant ramen packages you find in the grocery store aisles. I am referring to the fresh ramen noodles served in a delicious hot broth the chef has been preparing for days, topped with slices chashu (stewed pork), veggies, and a ramen egg. Across the US, cities from New York, Nashville, to San Francisco, there seems to be always a line outside the popular Japanese chains as Ippudo (博多一風堂) and Santouka (山頭火), as well as local stores. Ramen Recipe. Have you tried miso ramen before? This past summer, we went to Hokkaido in Japan which is the birth place of Sapporo Miso Ramen. The bowl of miso ramen from Tenhou in the fame Ramen Alley was heavenly.
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