Description: Simple but delicious shiitake mushrooms. This can be canape, finger foods or appetiser. Serves: 10 piecesCooking time: 10 minutes Ingredients Shiitake mushrooms (alternatively chestnut mushrooms) - 10 pieces or 200g Garlic - chopped in fine pieces, 2 cloves Olive oil - 1 tablespoon Dried chili - chopped, 1 piece Salt - 1 dash Black pepper … Continue reading Aglio e olio peperoncino shitake mushroom
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Hearty Stewed Meat & Potatoes (色々肉じゃが)
Description: Japanese slow cook food. Can be cooked in large portions and kept for the following days.Serves: 4Cooking time: 30+ minutes Ingredients Beef (sirloin, alternatively rib-eye or any other part) - cut in bite size, 150g Onion - chopped, 2 or 300g Baby potatoes - 10 pieces or 250g Green Beans - 80g Carrots - … Continue reading Hearty Stewed Meat & Potatoes (色々肉じゃが)
Maguro Tatsuta-yaki
Description: No deep fry, simple, and delicious. Nostalgic Japanese dish. Serves: 2 Cooking time: 30 minutes Ingredients Tuna - cut into bite-size, 160g Potato flour - 2 tablespoons Soy sauce - 1 tablespoon Sake cooking wine - 1 tablespoon Lemon juice - ½ teaspoon or squeeze from ½ wedge of lemon Sunflower oil - 2 tablespoons Method … Continue reading Maguro Tatsuta-yaki
Slightly simmered Chicken, Chikuwa and Green pepper
Description: Simple, fast but tasty. Nothing really special but still amazing.Serves: 2 Cooking time: 15 minutes Ingredients Chikuwa fish cake - chopped diagonally, 160g Green pepper - chopped, 1 small piece or 80g Mincemeat (chicken or turkey) - 100g Soy sauce - 2 teaspoons Mirin cooking wine - 2 teaspoons Sake cooking wine - 2 teaspoons … Continue reading Slightly simmered Chicken, Chikuwa and Green pepper
Pork Ginger & courgette Sauté
Description: The fresh lemon flavour with a little ginger punch matches with the fatty pork and courgette.Serves: 2Cooking time: 15 minutes Ingredients Sliced pork belly- chopped, 80g Courgette - chopped, 1 piece or 200g Ginger - chopped into small pieces, 5g Lemon juice - 1 teaspoon or squeeze from 1 wedge of lemon Olive oil … Continue reading Pork Ginger & courgette Sauté
Stir-fried chicken and green pepper
Description: Simple and Fast to prepare. For one of your lazy day meals. You may want to eat this with a bowl of steamed rice.Serves: 2Cooking time: 10 minutes Ingredients Minced meat (chicken or turkey) - 100g Green pepper - 160g Ginger - pureed, 1 teaspoon Soy sauce - ½ tablespoon Sake cooking wine - … Continue reading Stir-fried chicken and green pepper
Fresh octopus and olive oil pasta
Description: There are no special ingredients required to cook this pasta, but you can make restaurant-grade pasta at home.Serves: 2Cooking time: 25 minutes Ingredients Spaghetti - 180g Boiled octopus (alternatively, uncooked octopus and boil it at home) - chopped in small pieces, 160g Garlic - chopped, 2 cloves Olive oil - 2 tablespoons Pitted olives … Continue reading Fresh octopus and olive oil pasta
Stuffed mushroom
Description: Just a little bit of twist can make mushrooms special. This can be a canape, finger food or an appetiser. This is also one of the common ippin-ryori (一品料理) which is Japanese à la carte.Serves: 2Cooking time: 15 minutes Ingredients Mushrooms (shitake, chestnut or portobello) - 200g or 10 pieces Minced meat (chicken or … Continue reading Stuffed mushroom
Chinese cabbage namul (白菜のナムル)
Description: Easy to prepare and healthy. Simple but it is nice to have it as an appetiser, side dish or even as a snack.Serves: 2Cooking time: 10 minutes Ingredients Hakusai cabbage - chopped, 200g Tuna tin - 1 small tin or 60g Sesame oil - 1 teaspoon Ground black pepper - 1 dash Salt - … Continue reading Chinese cabbage namul (白菜のナムル)
Yellow Tail Radish (ブリ大根)
Description: My favourite. Typical Japanese à la carte (Ippin-ryori: 一品料理). Serves: 2Cooking time: 40 mins - according to your preference Ingredients Yellow tail - cut into bite-size, 2 pieces or 200g Daikon radish - chopped into a quarter slice (1cm width), 200g Soy sauce - 1 tablespoon Mirin cooking wine - 1 tablespoon Dashi stock - … Continue reading Yellow Tail Radish (ブリ大根)