Name: Salmon Donburi Rice Bowl - Quick Lunch
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 10 min
Total time: 25 min
Yield: 2
Ingredients: 200g salmon tartare - cut into small cubes; 1/2 onion - thinly sliced; 2 tbsp mayonnaise; a dash of salt and sugar; 2 eggs; For the sauce (but you can also use off-the-shelf tsuyu); 2 tbsp soy sauce; 1 tsp sugar; some sesame oil

March 12, 2021

Salmon Donburi Rice Bowl – Quick Lunch

Salmon Donburi Rice Bowl - Quick Lunch

Persons

Prep Time

15 minutes

Cook Time

10 minutes

Total Time

25 minutes

Ingredients

200g salmon tartare - cut into small cubes
1/2 onion - thinly sliced
2 tbsp mayonnaise
a dash of salt and sugar
2 eggs

For the sauce (but you can also use off-the-shelf tsuyu)

2 tbsp soy sauce
1 tsp sugar
some sesame oil

Instructions

1. In a small cup, add all the sauce ingredient and mix. Microwave 20 to 30 sec at 600w. Set aside.
2. Soak the onion in water for about 10 min and then drain well. Transfer into a small bowl and add mayonnaise, salt and sugar. Mix and set aside.
3. In a cooking pot, boil water and cook eggs for 6 mins (or more if you like harder eggs). After they are done, soak them in cold water until use.
4. Serve the hot steamed rice in your serving bowl. Add onion slices on top, then salmon. Roast with a cooking torch if you like (optional). Pour the sauce and sprinkle chopped scallion.
5. Place the boiled egg (cut in half), enjoy!

Notes

You can also use off-the-shelf tsuyu / 3x concentrated (つゆ), in this case silute 1 part tsuyu with 3 parts water. Adjust adding water to your taste.

February 23, 2021

Salmon Roll – Maki Sushi

Salmon Roll - Maki Sushi

Serving Size

3 Sushi Rolls

Prep Time

40 minutes

Cook Time

30 minutes

Total Time

1 hour, 10 minutes

Ingredients

300g of Japanese uncooked Rice

For the sushi vinegar

50g rice vinegar or apple cider vinegar
18g sugar
7g fine salt
3 sheets of nori

For the filling

1/2 onion - thinly sliced - Soak in water for 10 minutes
1/2 to 1 avocado - sliced
a dash of lemon juice
180g to 200g salmon tartare
some mayonnaise

For the dipping sauce

Soy sauce
Wasabi

Instructions

1. Start by cooking your rice. Meanwhile make the sushi vinegar : In a cooking pot add vinegar, sugar and salt. Cook until almost boiled and sugar and salt are completely melted. Remove from the heat and set it aside.
2. Transfer the cooked rice into a heat-safe bowl, and pour the sushi vinegar from #1 on it. 'Slice' the rice with a rice paddle and let it cool down.
3. Place "Sushi bamboo rolling mat" on your worktop and then a nori sheet (shiny side down).
4. Spread about 180g sushi rice evenly. Leave an about 2cm edge uncovered.
5. Spread mayonnaise along the center line, as much as you want, over the rice. Place avocado, onion and salmon along that line too. Then roll up the maki tightly with a sushi rolling mat. Make 2 more sushi rolls.
6. Cut slices in the sushi roll with a clean and moistened knife. Please clean your knife before each new slice.
7. Serve wity soy sauce and wasabi :)

February 23, 2021

Strawberry Butter

Prep Time

15 minutes

Cook Time

20 minutes

Total Time

35 minutes

Ingredients

60g salted or unsalted butter - softened
40g strawberries
20 to 25g white sugar
a dash of salt if you used unsalted butter

Instructions

1. In a small cooking pot, add strawberry and sugar, cook until strawberries are soft.
2. Transfer into a safe-heat bowl and blend until smooth. Then set aside.
3. In an another bowl, add the butter (softened), and mix with an electric hand mixer until smooth. Then add the strawberry puree little by little (or else butter and puree would separate). Mix well at each addition, continue until you use it all up.
4. Add a dash of salt if you used unsalted butter. Mix. Transfer into a small cup, cover and chill in the fridge.
Enjoy with a slice of bread or anything else you like!

February 6, 2021

Hot and Sour Soup

Persons

Prep Time

20 minutes

Cook Time

30 minutes

Total Time

50 minutes

Ingredients

1 tsp vegetable oil
100g pork belly - thinly sliced, pepper-and-salted
1 tsp potato starch / katakuriko
about 250g soft tofu - cut into cubes
1/2 carrot (~50g) - cut into julienne
2 to 3 shiitake (~60g) - sliced
60g leek - cut into julienne
2 to 3 eggs

For the Soup :

800ml water
3 tsp Chinese chicken bouillon powder
1 tbsp cooking sake or white wine
1 to 2 tbsp apple cider vinegar or rice vinegar
2 tbsp soy sauce
1 to 1.5 tsp kosher salt (adjust to your taste)
1 tbsp oyster sauce
1 tbsp potato starch / katakuriko dissolved in 1.5 tbsp water

Instructions

1. In a cooking pot, heat 1 tsp vegetable oil and cook the pork. When the pork is almost cooked, add carrot, leek and shiitake. Stir-fry for a few minutes.
2. Pour the water (800ml) and bring it to a boil, adding chicken soup powder, cooking sake, soy sauce, kosher salt, oyster sauce.
3. Once it has boiled then add tofu and bring it to a boil again. Add vinegar (1 or 2 tbsp, depending on your taste). Pour the dissolved potato starch to thicken the soup. Then add the beaten eggs but don't mix them in until the eggs are cooked.
4. Serve hot! Add Ra-yu (chili oil) or homemade rayu if you like spicy!

February 1, 2021

Pink Udon – Philips Pasta Maker

Pink Udon

Serving Size

5 to 6 people

Prep Time

15 minutes

Cook Time

15 minutes

Total Time

30 minutes

Ingredients

80g cooked beetroot - cut into cubes
150ml water
250g cake flour / plain flour (T45)
5g gluten powder
35g katakuriko / potato starch
10g tapioca flour
5ml water

Instructions

1. In a blender cup, add beetroot and water. Blend until a smooth paste. Sieve twice, first with a large mesh, then with a fine mesh sieve. Set aside 108ml of it.
2. In a cooking bowl, add plain flour, potato starch, tapioca powder and gluten powder and mix well.
3. Set the disc for Udon and transfer the dough into the pasta machine's tank. Start the machine. Add 108ml of beets juice and then 5ml water.
4. Prepare the tray and sprinkle potato starch. Noodles come out! cut the first 10cm and put it back in the tank. Resume the program.
5. Dust the udon as it comes out with flour and cut them when you reach the length you want.
6. Continue until the machine stops or the dough is all used up.
Enjoy!

December 12, 2020

Chocolate Mochi

Prep Time

20 minutes

Cook Time

1 hour

Total Time

1 hour, 20 minutes

Ingredients

100g glutinous rice flour
70g white sugar
120ml water
100ml milk
60g chocolate (i use milk chocolate) - cut into small pieces
cocoa powder (unsweetened)

Instructions

1. Spread some cocoa powder onto a plate and set it aside.
2. In a bowl, add glutinous rice flour, sugar and mix well.
3. Add milk and water, then mix well. Transfer to a cooking pot.
4. Cook over medium heat. Mix gently with a silicone spatula. Once it starts to be thick, add chocolate and mix constantly until completely incorporated.
5. Cook until it all comes together, silky and smooth. Spread some cocoa powder onto the workspace and place the mochi on it. Spread more cocoa powder over the mochi.
6. Coat mochi with cocoa powder on all sides. Shape it to an about 2cm thickness. Cut into bite sizes, dust with more cocoa powder on all sides and place mochi on the plate you prepared.
7. Cover with saran wrap and chill in the fridge before eating.