8th May 2018 / Last updated : 9th May 2018 Mog 02 : Main Dishes

Stuffed Eggplant (なすの肉詰め)

Eggplants don’t have strong tastes themselves. But once cooked with meat, they soak its broth well and become very tasty. They are excellent supporting actors! Ingredients (for 3 servings) Eggplant: 3 Minced meat (pork or chicken): 150 g Onion (chopped): 50 g Tofu: 25 g Grated garlic: 1 tsp Dashi powder (if any, otherwise chicken soup powder): 1.5 tsp Black pepper: adjust to taste All-purpose flour: for dusting Oil: for frying Soy sauce: adjust for taste (Optional) Instruction Cut tips off of eggplants and hollow out them with a spoon. Shift all-purpose flour inside the eggplants. Chop the eggplant pulp into small pieces. Add 2 dashes of salt and rub […]
1st May 2018 / Last updated : 18th January 2019 Mog 03 : Side Dishes

Egg Soup with Cabbage (Cabbage Kakitamajiru, キャベツのかき卵汁)

Speaking of traditional Japanese soup, probably you imagine Miso soup. I will introduce this easy and quick recipe. You can use beans sprout for ingredients as well. Ingredients (3 servings) Cabbage leaf: 1 (A) Dashi broth: 600 mL (or 600 mL of water and 1 tsp of Dashi powder) (A) Soy sauce: 1/2 tbsp (A) Mirin: 1 tsp Egg: 1 Starch: 1 tsp with 1.5 tbsp of water Instructions Cut a cabbage leaf into bite-size pieces. Put condiments (A) and water in a saucepan and heat until it comes to a boil. When the cabbage is cooked, turn off the heat, add watery potato starch and stir it. Turn the […]
13th April 2018 / Last updated : 13th April 2018 Mog 03 : Side Dishes

Spinach simmered in Dashi Broth (Hourensou Nibitashi,ほうれん草の煮浸し)

Very simple, but you can taste vegetable itself. Ingredients Spinach: 1 bunch Here I used komatsuna (Japanese mustard spinach), looks like spinach. The name ‘komatsuna’ is from the Japanese komatsuna (小松菜), ‘greens of Komatsu’, a reference to Komatsugawa village where it was heavily grown during the Edo period. Fried tofu: 1 Dashi: 300 mL (or 300 mL of water and 2 tsp of dashi powder. To prepare dashi is check this page) Soy sauce: 1 tsp Mirin: 1 tsp Instructions Rinse spinach to remove dirt and cut it into 4 cm long. Cut fried tofu into bite-sized pieces. Put condiments in a pan and heat until the liquid comes to […]
21st March 2018 / Last updated : 30th December 2018 Mog 01 : Basic

Homemade mentsuyu

Read an article on mentsuyu to learn what it is. Mentsuyu is a very useful condiment. You don’t like additives? Make homemade mentsuyu, then!  Ingredients Dashi 150 mL (Check this page to learn how to make dashi.) Soy sauce: 2 tbsp Mirin: 1/2 tbsp Sugar: 1/2 tsp Instructions Put all ingredients in a pot and heat over high until it comes to a boil. Cool down until the liquid becomes warm. If you concentrated type mentsuyu, boil down the liquid to about a third. Store in a jar and keep it in a fridge.