Japanese food

[fadyllan]

Oh, yes. Sushi is no stranger anymore to all of us. BUt here's another Japanese food that you should try. It is called Gyoza Recipe. Gyoza is a kind of dumplings. Gyoza can be steamed, fried, boiled..etc.

INGREDIENTS:

* 1/3 cup chopped cabbage (boiled)
* 2 tbsps chopped green onion
* 1/2 pound ground pork
* 1 tsp sesame oil
* 1 tsp sugar
* 2 tsps soysauce
* 1/2 tsp garlic salt
* 1/2 tsp grated fresh ginger
* 20 gyoza wrappers
* 1 tbsp vegetable oil

PREPARATION:
Combine all ingredients other than oil in a bowl and mix well by hands. Place a teaspoonful of filling in a wrapper and put water along the edge of the wrapper. Make a semicircle, gathering the front side of the wrapper and sealing the top.

Heat oil in a frying pan. Put gyoza in the pan and fry on high heat for a min until the bottoms become brown. Add 1/4 cup water in the pan. Cover the pan with a lid and steam the gyoza for a few minutes on low heat.

[fadyllan]

This one reminds me of Doraemon. Any of you ever watch that cartoon. When i was little i love to read the comics too. That blue robot from the future that i have a pocket contains all cool gadgets.

Dorayaki Recipe

INGREDIENTS:

* 1 cup flour
* 2/3 cup sugar
* 1/2 tsp baking soda
* 3 tbsps water
* 3 eggs
* 3/4 pound anko (sweet azuki beans)
* *vegetable oil for frying

PREPARATION:
Put eggs and sugar in a bowl and whisk very well. Dissolve baking soda in water. Add the water in the egg mixture. Add sifted flour in the egg mixture gradually. Heat a frying pan and lightly oil it. Pour a scoop of the batter in the pan and make a small pancake.

(*about 4 inches in diameter.) Turn over when bubbles appear on the surface. Repeat this process to make 8-10 pancakes. Cool the pancakes. Make pairs of pancakes and put a scoop of anko sweet beansbetween them. (like an ice cream sandwich.)

Here's how Dorayaki looks like..

[fadyllan]

This one is called Daifuku.

INGREDIENTS:

* 1 cup shiratama-ko (rice flour)
* 1/4 cup sugar
* 1 1/4 cup water
* 1 cup anko

PREPARATION:
Put water, shiratama-ko, and sugar in a pan. Place the pan on low heat. Keep stirring the dough until thicken. Flatten the dough on a floured flat pan. Divide the dough into 12 pieces and make rounds. Put a spoonful anko on a piece of dough and wrap the anko by stretching the dough. Rounds off the daifuku.

Here's how it looks like


And here's how you make Anko
INGREDIENTS:

* 1 cup azuki beans
* 10 cups water
* 1/3 cup sugar

PREPARATION:
Put 4 cups of water in a pan and add azuki beans. Put the pan on high heat and bring to boil. Stop the heat and drain the water. Put 6 cups of water in a pan and add the boiled azuki beans. Put the pan on low heat and simmer the beans for an hour until soften. Take out excess water from the pan and add sugar. Stir the azuki on low heat for a few minutes until thicken. Stop the heat.

[kimmiz]

oh i love sushi, it's one of the best things i've ever eaten!