Easy Japanese Cooking Recipe Onigiri (Rice Ball)

This month`s Easy Japanese Cooking Recipe is Onigiri or Japanese rice ball.

Onigiri is a popular snack food or takeaway option for a quick meal. It is kind of like the sandwich in the West.


Ingredients
• 5 cups hot cooked Japanese style short-grain rice
• 4 sheets dried nori seaweed

For the Filling
• dried bonito flakes (moistened in soy sauce)
• salted salmon grilled
• umeboshi (pickled plums)
• 2 Tbsp black sesame seeds toasted

Method

1. Wash and cook the rice. Onigiri is made while the rice is still hot.
2. Slightly toast the nori sheets and cut sheets crosswise into 1-inch widths.
3. Toast the black sesame seeds in a dry frying pan.
4. Prepare your different fillings
     - the salted salmon should be broken up into small pieces
     - pit the umeboshi (pickled plums)
5. Form the triangles – When handling the hot rice, keep your hands moistened with salty water to season the rice slightly and keep it from sticking to your hands.
6. Place a handful of rice (about ½ cup) across the bent fingers of your left hand. Make an indentation in the rice and tuck in about a tsp of one of the fillings (Salmon. Plum, or Bonito flakes).
7. Use your index finger, middle finger, and thumb to mold the triangular shape.
8. Set the rice triangles down on their bases and cover each with a strip of nori seaweed.
9. Sprinkle one or both ends with the sesame seeds.

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Easy Japanese Cooking Recipe Gyudon (Beef Bowl)

This month`s Easy Japanese Cooking recipe is Gyudon or Beef Bowl.

It is a very popular item served by some of Japan`s fast food restaurants and is easy to make at home.

Preparation Time: 5-10 mins
Cooking Time: 7-8 mins
Makes 4 servings

Ingredients
• 6-8 cups hot cooked rice
• 225g thinly sliced beef
• 1 medium onion, thinly sliced
• 3 tbsp vegetable oil
• 2 tbsp fresh ginger juice

Sauce:
• 1 cup water
• 1/3 cup dark soy sauce
• 1/3 cup mirin

Method

1. Boil plain white rice
2. In a large frying pan, heat vegetable oil over a high heat
3. Cook the onion for a few minutes until soft
4. Add the beef slices and cook for another minute or until the meat is no longer red
5. Mix the ingredients for the sauce together and add sauce to pan
6. Continue to cook for another minute and then remove from heat
7. Stir in the ginger juice
8. To serve, put portions of hot rice 1.5 to 2 cups per serve into individual donburi bowls and cover with cooked beef and onions.

In Japan, a lot of people like to eat their gyudon with pickled ginger and top it with a lightly beaten raw egg mixed into the rice.

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Easy Japanese Cooking Recipe Hiyayakko Japanese Chilled Tofu

This month`s Easy Japanese Cooking recipe is Hiyayakko Japanese Chilled Tofu

Chilled tofu is called Hiyayakko in Japan and is the most popular tofu dish. All you need to do is place toppings on top of chilled tofu and it`s a great appetizer to serve during the warmer summer months.

Easy Japanese Cooking Recipe Yakitori Chicken

This month`s Easy Japanese Cooking recipe is Japanese Yakitori Chicken

Preparation Time: 15 mins
Cooking Time: 10 mins








Ingredients

• 1kg chicken thigh fillets, cut into 3cm pieces
• 8 green onions, cut into 3cm lengths
• ¾ cup dark soy sauce
• 6 tablespoons cooking saki
• 3 tablespoons mirin
• 2 tablespoons caster sugar
• bamboo skewers
• steamed rice, to serve

Method

1. Soak skewers in cold water for 15 minutes. Drain.
2. Combine soy sauce, saki, mirin and sugar in a small saucepan over medium-high heat. Bring to the boil. Reduce heat to medium. Simmer for 5 minutes or until sauce has reduced and thickened slightly. Allow to cool completely.
3. Thread chicken and onions onto skewers. Place onto a plate. Brush with sauce.
4. Preheat grill on medium-high heat until hot. Grill skewers, basting with sauce, for 6 to 8 minutes or until cooked through. Serve with rice.

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Easy Japanese Cooking Recipe Vegetable Tempura

This month's Easy Japanese Cooking recipe is Japanese Vegetable Tempura

Preparation Time: 25 mins
Cooking Time: 10 mins

1 cup self-raising flour
2 tbsp cornflour
1 ½ cups iced water
½ tsp salt
Extra self-raising flour for coating

1. Combine flour, cornflour and iced water and whisk to a slightly lumpy batter. Add more water if you want a slightly thinner batter but authentic Japanese tempura is slightly lump.

2. Place extra flour and vegetables into a plastic bag and shake to coat vegetables.

3. Dip vegetables in batter.

4. Heat oil until a faint haze appears and cook vegetables in batches until batter crisps.

5. Drain on kitchen paper and serve with a low sodium soy sauce and pickled ginger.

In Japan we use tempura batter with vegetables like onion, potato, sweet potato, pumpkin, shitake mushrooms, green pepper and carrot. It also works great with prawns and white fish.

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Easy Japanese Cooking Recipe Karaage (Japanese Fried Chicken)

This month's Easy Japanese Cooking recipe is Karaage (Japanese Fried Chicken)

Easy Japanese Cooking Recipe Miso Soup

This month's Easy Japanese Cooking recipe is Miso Soup

Easy Japanese Cooking Recipe Niku Jyaga (Meat & Potatoes)

This month's Easy Japanese Cooking recipe is Niku Jyaga (Meat & Potatoes)