Name: Oven Roast Beef
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 1 h
Total time: 1 h 15 min
Yield: 5 persons
Ingredients: 1kg top round roast beef; 3 garlic cloves - grated; 1 tsp kosher salt; 1 tbsp olive oil; dash of pepper; For the sauce; 1 tbsp olive oil; 2 to 3 garlic cloves - grated; 1 shallot - finely chopped; 20g unsalted butter; 2 tbsp soy sauce; 1 tbsp worcestershire sauce; 1/2 to 1 tbsp brown sugar; 2 tbsp mirin

January 6, 2020

Roast Beef in the oven

Oven Roast Beef

Persons

Prep Time

15 minutes

Cook Time

1 hour

Wait Time

1 hour

Total Time

1 hour, 15 minutes

Ingredients

1kg top round roast beef
3 garlic cloves - grated
1 tsp kosher salt
1 tbsp olive oil
dash of pepper

For the sauce

1 tbsp olive oil
2 to 3 garlic cloves - grated
1 shallot - finely chopped
20g unsalted butter
2 tbsp soy sauce
1 tbsp worcestershire sauce
1/2 to 1 tbsp brown sugar
2 tbsp mirin

Instructions

1. Coat the block beef with olive oil, salt, pepper and garlic and let sit for about 30 min.
2. On a frypan, grill the beef (only its surface) on all sides until well browned.
3. Preheat your oven to 110℃ degrees.
4. Place the roast beef onto a baking dish. I usually put aluminium foil on the baking dish. Bake for 50min or more. (Depend on how your beef is big.)
NOTE : Insert your meat thermometer into the thickest part of the meat, if it shows 60 to 63℃ degree, then the meat is ready!
5. Wrap the roast up tightly in the foil and let it rest outside the oven at room temperature. While it is resting, it will continue to cook.
6. In the meantime, making the sauce In the same frying-pan (just remove any burnt garlic bits) fry the garlic until fragrant. Add shallot and cook until browned. Then add butter. Once the butter is melted, add all the other sauce ingredients (soy sauce, worcestershire sauce, sugar and mirin). Bring it to a boil and add olive oil (1 tbsp). Then transfer to your serving plate. Almost ready!
6. Using a sharp knife, slice the roast beef into thin slices (as per your taste) and serve with the sauce!

January 4, 2020

Coleslaw salad

Persons

Prep Time

30 minutes

Cook Time

10 minutes

Total Time

40 minutes

Ingredients

500g cabbage - finely chopped
1 onion - finely chopped
1 carrot - finely chopped
2 tsp salt

For the dressing

2 tbsp heavy cream
60g mayonnaise or more
1 tbsp apple cider vinegar
30g sweetened condensed milk
1/2 tsp honey mustard (or just mustard)
a dash of pepper
a dash of salt to taste (if necessary)

Instructions

1. In a bowl add cabbage, onion, carrot and salt (2 tsp). Toss to combine. Let it sit for about 30min to draw out excess water. Drain well.
2. In a big bowl, combine all the dressing ingredients and mix. Add the vegetables from #1 and stir until combined well.
3. Cover and refrigerate before serving.

January 1, 2020

Seafood Cream Croquettes

Seafood Cream Croquette

Persons

Prep Time

30 minutes

Cook Time

1 hour

Total Time

1 hour, 30 minutes

Ingredients

1 tbsp olive oil
1 to 2 garlic clove - grated
1 onion - thinly sliced
50g unsalted butter
40g plain flour/cake flour (T45)
600g milk
1 tsp kosher salt
1 tsp soy sauce
1/2 white sugar
pepper to taste

For the filling :

100g small shrimps
150g crab stick - roughly chopped
2 tsp scallion - chopped
or
250g small shrimps
3 brown mushrooms
1 egg mix with 50g milk
some panko/bread clumbs
some plain flour (T45)

Instructions

1. In a frying-pan, heat 1 tbsp olive oil and fry the garlic until fragrant and add the onion, cook until lightly browned.
2. Add the butter and melt completely, then add the flour. Stir and mix well.
3. Add milk little by little and continue simmering until thick, stirring occasionally with a spatula.
4. Add kosher salt, soy sauce, sugar and pepper. Mix.
5. Add, scallion, shrimps, crab sticks and mix well. (or shrimps, brown mushroom)
6. Remove from the heat and transfer the mixture on a plate or a baking pan. Leave it to cool. Then cover with plastic wrap and keep it in the fridge (or freezer if you are in hurry.) for about 1h or more until it's firm.
(The mixture is very soft, so better make it firm well so that easy to handle for the next steps.)
7. Lightly wet your hands with water and make small portions. The shape can be rough at this stage, it does not matter too much.
8. Dip each croquette (in this order) in flour, egg then panko. Make sure to coat with panko evenly all around, making the croquette into a nice round shape.
9. In a large cooking pot, heat the oil on medium-high heat to about 170C degree or until small bubbles appear around your chopstick. Deep fry 2 or 3 croquettes until all sides are nicely brown.
10. Transfer to a plate lined with paper towel to drain off the excess oil. Repeat with the remaining croquettes.
Serve hot!

December 27, 2019

homemade “teuchi” udon

homemade "teuchi" udon

Persons

Prep Time

30 minutes

Cook Time

1 hour, 30 minutes

Total Time

2 hours

Ingredients

285g plain flour / cake flour (T45)
3g gluten powder
12g katakuriko/potato starch
130g water
18g salt

Instructions

1. In the mixing bowl of your KitchenAid, add flour, gluten powder and potato starch. Mix well with a hand whisk. Then fit KitchenAid with the dough hook.
2. In a small cup, add salt and water. Mix well until dissolved.
3. Slowly drizzle in water mix, scraping down the sides of the bowl as needed while you mix at the lowest speed. Continue until the dough comes together into a shaggy dough.
4. Transfer the dough out to the work surface and knead by hand. Shape it into a rough ball. Cover with plastic wrap and let it sit for about 1 hour.
5. Divide into 3 equal pieces on the work surface. Cover with plastic wrap. It is OK if the dough is not smooth at this stage.
6. Fit the Pasta Roller onto the KitchenAid mixer. Set it to position 1 (thickest). Flatten by hand one dough piece into a rough rectangle about 1.5 cm thick. Process at speed 1 and slowly feed the piece of dough through the Roller. Feed it through again at the same (thickest) setting 1 several times until the dough is silky and smooth. You may fold it in half before running it through. It usually takes me about 10 times and sometimes more. In the beginning the dough will be ragged. As you repeat, after more runs, it will get silky and smooth alright.
7. Once the dough is smooth, turn the dial to the next thickness setting 2 and run the dough through once or twice.
8. Repeat #6 and #7 with the rest of dough balls.
9. Attach the Spaghetti Cutter and run the dough through to cut it. Dust generously the noodles to coat them with potato starch and gently shape into serving sized bundles. Place on the prepared plate. Repeat with the remaining dough pieces.
NOTE: you can also cut by hand. Check out the video below!
10. Get a large pot of water boiling. Add the noodles to boil there for 10min. Now you can stir them gently but only at the very beginning. It is better not to touch the udon after that, or they might become very fragile and break down into short bits. Strain and rinse the udon noodles with running water to remove the gooey texture from the surface. Immerse the washed udon back in boiling water to warm them up. Pull them out again of the water, serve in a bowl before pouring the hot soup.
You can enjoy the cold udon, directly after the cold water rinsing with tsuyu!

December 17, 2019

Meat doria – Bolognese Rice Gratin

Meat doria - Bolognese Rice Gratin

Persons

Prep Time

30 minutes

Cook Time

50 minutes

Total Time

1 hour, 20 minutes

Ingredients

2 rice cooker cups Japanese short grain rice
2 tbsp olive oil
3 garlic cloves - finely chopped
350g ground beef
1 onion - finely chopped
100ml white cook wine or cooking sake
1 canned tomatoes (400g)
1 tbsp tomato paste

Ingredient A

2 bay leaf
1 beef stock cubes
1 tsp white sugar
1/2 tsp worcester sauce
2 tbsp ketchup
2 tbsp olive oil

For the white sauce

1 garlic clove - grated
50g unsalted butter
30g cake flour / plain flour (T45)
1L whole milk
1 1/2 tsp kosher salt or more if necessary
1 tsp sugar
dash of pepper
cheese as much as you need

Instructions

1. In a large cooking pot, heat olive oil (2 tbsp) on medium high and cook garlic until fragrant. Then sauté onion until soft. Add ground beef and cook until the beef is no longer pink.
2. Add the cooking white wine and cook for a few minutes.
3. Add the canned tomatoes and tomato paste. Then add the ingredient A, bring it to a boil. Reduce the heat to low, simmer for about 20 min. Add the olive oil (2 tbsp) and set aside.
4. making white sauce : Melt butter in a saucepan, add the grated garlic and cook until fragrant. Then add cake flour. Stir continously until a paste forms, using a wooden spoon or a spatula. Add milk gradually, and stir thoroughly to loosen up the thick flour mixture.
5. Now using a whisk, and gradually, add the rest of the milk. Whisk vigorously until smooth and silky.
6. Butter the baking dish and put the steamed rice in. Pour the white sauce on top of the rice, and then cover with meat mixture. Sprinkle some cheese (as much as you like!) on top. Cover again with the white sauce on top.
7. Bake in oven on high heat (200℃) for about 20 to 30 minutes or until browned.

December 11, 2019

Curry rice without curry roux

Persons

Prep Time

30 minutes

Cook Time

1 hour

Total Time

1 hour, 30 minutes

Ingredients

2 tbsp vegetable oil
4 garlic cloves - finely chopped
15g fresh ginger - finely chopped
500g pork or beef - cut into strips (then soak with 2 tbsp white cooking wine.)
1 carrot - small cubes
1 onion - roughly chopped
50g butter
80g cake flour/plain flour (T45)
5 tbsp curry powder
1/2 tbsp cumin powder
1/2 tbsp paprika powder (not spicy)
2 tbsp brown sugar

Ingredient A

1 tsp instant coffee powder
1/2 tsp kosher salt
1/2 tsp soy sauce
1 1/2 apricot jam
2 beef stock cubes (20g)
2 tbsp ketchup
900g water or more water if necessary
dash of salt

Instructions

1. In a small bowl, add all the flour ingredients and mix. (flour, curry powder, cumin, paprika, brown sugar) Set aside.
2. In a frying-pan, heat 1 tbsp oil and cook pork (or beef) until no longer pink. Set aside.
3. In a large cooking pot (non-stick is ideal), heat 2 tbsp oil and fry garlic and ginger until fragrant. Add onion and cook until lightly browned.
4. Add carrot and cook for a few minutes. Add butter and melt it completely. When the butter is melted, then add the flour mix from #1 in one go. Mix well to combine evenly.
5. Now add water. At the beginning add the water little by little and mix (mix well at each addition so that you don't make any lumps).
6. Add the ingredient A, prepared meat and mix. Bring it to a boil, then cover and simmer for about 40 to 50min.
7. Add some water if you think it is too thick. Adjust with salt and pepper to your taste.
8. Serve hot with hot steamed rice!
(Sorry there was no picture with the rice as it was too dark to take a decent shot...)