Beef Steak Donburi

Another worthy recipe to try from "Cooking with dog"!

Medium rare steak with homemade onion ponzu sauce, saute onion with mushroom and lettuce over steamy hot Japanese multigrain rice! So good! Oishii!

Teriyaki Chicken Meatballs

Tried another keeper recipe from one of my favourite recipe site for Japanese food! These chicken meatballs with homemade teriyaki sauce are such delight! Minced chicken breast meat mix with tofu, capsicum, egg and ginger made into meatballs, pan fried and glazed with teriyaki sauce! The meatballs are soft, tender and flavourful!  

Recipe adapted from "Just One Cookbook"!

Korokke - Japanese Potato and Bacon Croquette

Croquette also known as Korokke in Japanese, is a Japanese deep fried dish. Basically is mixing meat, seafood or vegetable into balls, coat with flour, egg and bread crumbs to fry. Usually served as snack or as a side dish. This recipe is definitely a keeper! 

Recipe adapted and modified from Just One Cookbook, one of my favourite site for Japanese food recipes!

Curry Udon with Chicken Karaage

Weekday easy cooking - one dish meal!

Japanese curry is one of the easiest Japanese dish to cook at home with the help of instant curry roux! I enjoy my delicious curry udon so much! Yum!

Easy Baked Salmon

This is another easy recipe from Cooking with dog! I love all her cooking videos which showcase lots of simple Japanese food recipes! 

Serve it with rice or just on its own for a light meal!

Katsudon (Pork Tonkatsu Rice Bowl)

This is a very simple and delicious recipe, adapted from "Cooking with Dog". Recommended by  a friend. Cooking with Dog is a Youtube cooking show hosted by a mysterious Japanese chef and her dog Francis! I love her simple cooking and recipes! 

Katsudon

Simple and delicious with well balanced flavour. Definitely going to cook this again and again!

Japanese Curry Sloppy Joe

20 Mar 2011

When I saw this recipe over at Happy Home Baking, I knew I will be making it soon. True enough I cooked this few days later. I never try the real sloppy joe before but I do like this one very much with a Japanese twist! For those who like Japanese curry sauce, you will definitely heart this! I cooked the pork version as my aunt don't take beef. This sauce is good for baked pasta too!      

Japanese Curry Sloppy Joe Sandwich

Last homecooked lunch for Year 2010

31st Dec 2010

On the last day of the year 2010, I cooked a simple and delicious lunch for my family. Japanese curry is probably one of the easiest dish on earth to prepare and yet it can taste like restaurant's standard. Served it with good quality Japanese rice, definitely is a comfort dish to me. Mine is the quick and simple version as I used sliced saute beef instead of beef cubes, so don't need to stew it till the beef tender.

Japanese beef curry with rice

Ingredients: (Serve 4)
1 box (100g) Golden Curry sauce mix - hot
400g Sliced Beef (seasoned with some meat tenderiser)
2 nos Carrots (sliced thickly)
1 no Yellow Onion (slice into wedges)
2 tbsp Frozen Green Peas
2 Cups of Stocks/Water




Method:
1. In a large skillet, heat up 2 tbsp of olive oil and stir fry onions and carrots till fragrant. Add stock/water and bring to boil for 10-15min till carrot is cooked.
2. Break the curry paste into small cubes and add in.
3. Stir well and add in beef and green peas. Cooked for awhile about 5 mins till cooked.
4. Serve it with warm Japanese rice.

* Can add vegetables like celery and potatoes, used chicken instead of beef. Or you can cook a vegetables curry served it with deep fried chicken chops/nugget and fish fillet etc.

Sushi - Tuna Maki

Thursday - 30 Oct 2008

Make some tuna maki this morning to finish off the balance cucumber & yellow raddish in my fridge

Today I made the japanese version - maki (no sesame oil & soya sauce added)

Recipes - 5 rolls
1 Can Tuna (drain and mix with chopped onion, dill weed, mayo & pepper)
5 strips Yellow radish
10 strips Jap cucumber
1 egg (make omelette & cut into 5 strips)
10 crab sticks
5 sheets of nori (seaweed)
2 bowls of cooked sushi rice mix with 2 tbsp of sushi vinegar immediately after the is rice cooked. Leave to cool.

Method:
1. Lay nori sheet on base of mat.
2. Spread the cool rice.
3. Assemble the ingredient.
4. Roll it up & cut.

Sukiyaki Hotpot

Sunday - 26 Oct 2008
This long weekend was a busy holidays for me, I had spent 2 days doing grooming for my dogs and also need to bake a cake for my brother's BD. On days like these, too tired to go out for dinner, we will do some real simple cooking. So hotpot is the best solution, we love these very much as its easy to make, delicious and is satisfying.



Kikoman Sukiyaki Sauce - An easy to use sauce to make sukiyaki hotpot. This can be found in all major supermarkets.

Sukiyaki hotpot - Ingredients:
1. Very thinly sliced pork (Shabu Shabu)
2. Leek
3. Chinese cabbage
4. Golden mushroom
5. Spring onion
6. Japanese bean vermicelli (see pic below)
7. Tofu (Usually I omit as my aunt don't take tofu)
8. Any other ingredients you want to use (I like to add fish maw)
9. Stock (to add more flavour instead of using plain water)

Methods:
1. Assemble all ingredients into the pot except the meat.
2. Add stock and sauce, bring to boil.
(if using stock, do not add too much sukiyaki sauce, it will be too salty)


Get this from all major supermarkets at the japanese products section.