Chawamushi (茶碗蒸）- video tutorial

This recipe I have previously list in my previous post some time back.. As per my friend say I love cooking, why not I make some video.. So here is one of them..

You can refer to my recipe here..

(Serves 2)

Ingredients (as per video):-

2 eggs (you can add 1 more egg for more eggy taste)

6 frozen shrimps 1 crabstick - cut into thin slices

Seasoning :-

1 1/2cup dashi stock 1 stalk spring onions chopped 2 tbsp light soya

1 tbsp mirin

Miso soup with Salmon

I chance upon a website that has a recipe that can cook salmon in miso soup and since there was one time i have half piece of salmon steak so why not?

I did not follow exactly on the recipe but I just lump whatever I had that can match with the soup.

Serves 2  3

Oyakodon

This is one of my favourite one dish Japanese cuisine. I like the combination of egg and chicken.. For my version, I added seaweed strips for another type of combination as I think the seaweed taste very matches with egg and chicken.

Serves 2

Curry Udon

I was once at this tamoya udon shop at Liang court one day, initally want to order curry udon but need to wait awhile so hence I try other options. A few days back I still have one packet of instant in my fridge and also I bot many carrots so I was thinking why not make my own curry udon? Hence this is my own verison of curry udon. Hehe...  

Serves 1

Chawamushi - new creation of my own verison

Previously I have blogged about chawamushi. So this post is mine another creative and creation of my own verison of chawamushi. I have some left over corn after making japanese potato salad, so I decided to use  of them for some sushi and some for chawamushi.

Japanese Potato Salad

Found this recipe on another blog. Hence decided to give it a try. I did not know corn can be part of a salad. Is so refreshing and crunchy. So does the japanese cucumber.  I have change part of the recipe to make it less fattening yet still very delicious. I even eat it for breakfast during my working days.

Sukiyaki Pork Bowl

Aha recently feel so japanese, so that why have been cooking some japanese food. Last time in the past when ever I step into any yoshinoya outlet, my favourite order will be the vegetable beef bowl. But ever since I known my bf, I never touch beef again. Anyway back to the point, a couple of weeks ago I bought a recipe book about Japanese meal. This recipe which I will be sharing is adapted from the recipe: Sukiyaki Beef Bowl found in the book. I used lean pork to replace beef.

Chawamushi

Whenever I dine in japanese resturant, most of the time I will order my favourite side dish: chawamushi. I like the sweetness taste in it. You still see some soup-like water when you eaten part of it. I must say this is one of the creative dish invented by japanese people. They can add in crabstick, chicken etc to make it so delicious. Compared to our own chinese style, we often mix the egg with fish or minced meat only. The taste is much more savory.

I always very curious and always wanted to try out this dish on my own. I ever bought a premix of chawamushi. Taste almost the same as those japanese resturant. But however there is a strong determination in me that I wana do everything from the start. After see I eat I shoot I post's one of the video on the making of chawamushi, I decided to follow the same method but ingredients wise I did not follow the same. So here below recipes is my own style.

Ramen in miso soup - serves 1

I always love noodles more than rice. It can be cook in either dried, soup, or even semi- dried. I always like how japanese restuarant the way they handle their own kinda ramen. Thinking to myself, if only I know how to cook my own style of ramen in miso soup how great it would be. And yesh! I finally did some research and managed to get some related recipe to try on my own. 

The picture which you see below is my 2nd attempt of the recipe which I gona share with you guys. My 1st try did not reali work out well due to my hot spring egg as the egg white was too watery and I did not put in boiled water to cook it.  Did further research and managed to succeed for the 2nd time.

Ingredients:
1 egg
1 serving cup of canned corns
2 stalk of xiao bai cai - seperate stem and leaves
1 vegetarian cha siew- cut into thin slices
1 serving size of ramen

Soup base:
1 tablespoon of miso paste
1 packet of dashi soup base

Garnishing:
1 stalk of chopped spring onions

Method:

Spring egg

1. Put eggs in boiling water and cook it for six mins.
2. After six mins, take out the egg and cool it down with ice water.

Ramen

1. Cook ramen in boiling till soften for 1 min and place it in a bowl of cold/warm water.

Miso Soup

1. Follow the same step as stated in my previous blog post: http://evesj85-recipes.blogspot.sg/2012/12/miso-soup-serves-two.html. (Except for the step in adding tofu in the step).
2. Add in xiao bai cai and cook till the vegetables are cooked. Switch off the fire.

A. Drain off the water away from the ramen, place vegetarian char siew, corns and vegetables nicely.

B. Cut the egg into half and place it nicely.

C. Add in the miso soup and garnish with chopped spring onions.

Miso Soup (serves two)

I have been craving to cook my own miso soup but doesn't know how to go about it until I come across Dr Lesie Tay's Ieatishootipost blog on one of his ieatvideo. There is one particular video which teaches how to make simple miso soup on your own. So I am gald that I can make my own and share this recipe with you guys =D 

Ingredients:

1 silken Tofu - cut into small cubes

1 tablespoon of miso

* I dun really want my soup to taste super salty so I bought the above instead

1 Packet of dashi soup powder

Method:-

1. Boil a pot of water and add in dashi soup powder. Stir well.

2.  Lower the fire to small fire. Disolve one tablespoon of miso with wire ladles(like above) into the   soup(this step is to enable miso being dissolve into the soup evenly.)

3. Add in tofu and simmer for1 to 2 mins.

If you prefer with seaweed, you can add in some wakame seaweed before adding in tofu. You can get such seaweed at Singapore Meidi-Ya supermarket which is located at Liang Court.

You may also want to refer to the below ieatvideo for clearer idea of how to prepare this simple soup.

Ebi Sushi

Aha, experimenting ebi sushi on a PH. Sudd gt a craving and urge to create own ebi sushi. Did quite a few research and here's hw I did mine:

Ingredients:

5 tiger prawns(veined, shelled)

Method:

1. Use disposable skewer poke through the prawn up to the tail. Make sure you use the skewer to    straighten the prawn and they should look like below:

2.  Prepare a small pot of boiling water(with salt disolved in it) and put in the prawns.

3.  Cook till the prawn is cooked. 

4.  Cool down the prawns in ice water.

5.  After 5 mins, take out the prawns and .  cut the prawns almost half(for me I cut the side where I slip open   the side to take out the vein.) Your prawns should look something like below:

6.  Alrite your prawns is ready to be serve with some Nigiri sushi. 

Soba Noodle

Recently I think my diet is slightly abit of haywire, so heatlhly concept automatically comes to my mind. Have tried eating soba noodle in resturant before. I kinda like the taste of the noodle and the soba sauce. So thought of prepare it on my own.

Ingredients:
2 crabsticks - cut about 2 cm length
Some leafy vegetables
Soba noodles(1 serving portion)

Soba sauce:-
I bot the ready to use soba sauce as per below.

* I pour in half a bowl of soba sauce and 3/4 bowl of cold water and mix well.

Method:

1. I blanch the crabstick and vegetables 1st in boiling salt water.(p.s for crabstick pls use only boiled plain water and vegetables with boiled salt water.
2. Set aside and I continue to cook the soba noodle. Once the noodle is cooked, put the noodles to cold water and wait for about 2 mins.
3. While waiting for the noodle to cool down, I went on to arrange the crabstick and veggie neatly and nicely on a serving plate.
4. Place the noodle on the serving plate. 

Tip: the correct way of eating this noodle is dip the noodle in the soba sauce and then bring it to your mouth. 

It's so delicious that I don't even have to add in extra seasoning as the noodle and soba sauce already goes so well with each other.

Simple and easy to do Terryaki chicken with egg~

Ingredients:
5 chicken fillets (chopped into cudes)
6 tablespoon of terriyaki sauce
(above ingredients I mix them together and marinade overnight)
1 yellow onion (cut into slices)
3 eggs (beaten)

Some seaweed (cut into thin strip as shown above)

Seasoning(for the egg mixture)
3 tablespoon of dashi soup
1 1/2 tablespoon of sugar.

Method:

1. Add in seasoning ingredients into the egg mixture and stir well.
2. Heat about 2 tablespoon of oil. Add in onion and stir fry till slight golden brown.
3. Add in chicken cubes and stir fry till brown color.
4. Pour in egg mixture and once the bottom of the egg mixture is cook, stir well with the chicken cubes. Cook till the egg mixture about 50% done.(means not to let the egg fully cooked so as to maintain the watery texture in it.)
5. You serve this dish on top of cooked rice and garnish with seaweeds.

Recently addicted make some sushi again. My fren recommend me to try out making some Tamayoki(Japanese rolled omelet) but to make this you need to have a square pan. But I managed to search online for a recipe which you still can do without using a square pan.

Tamagoyaki Sushi

Ingredients:

4 eggs (beaten)

1/3 cup of rice

Seaweed (cut into 1cm thin strip)

Seasoning:

3 Tablespoon of Dashi soup stock

1 1/2 Tablespoon of sugar

Method for Egg Mixture:

1. Add in dashi soup stock and sugar. Mix well.
2. Heat oil in wok and pour in 1/3 egg mixture.
3. Cook it until half done and roll to one side.
4. Add in half of the remaining egg mixture and have the rolled egg mixture flip over it.
5. Cook till half done and roll the egg again to make it thicker.
6. Add in the remaining egg mixture.
7. Cook till done.
8. Shape the egg mixture on bamboo mat.
9. Cut into1 inch thick pieces.

For the rice can follow my previous post:http://evesj85-recipes.blogspot.com/2012/02/simple-sushiserves-two-2-pax.html

Lastly, put the egg on top of the rice and wrap up the sushi of seaweed strip as shown in the picture.(Be sure to wet both side of the seaweed with water so that it will stick.)

Simple sushi~(serves two 2 pax)

Ingredients:

1 packet of powered sushi mix(as shown above, PS: I got it from ntuc)

Cooked rice(2 pax serving)

1 hotdog(bolied)

3 crabstick(bolied)

1/3 of japanese cucumber(cut into strips)

1/3 of carrot(cut into strips)

3 teaspoon of mayonise(for making crab mayo)

Some canned mayonise tuna

Tools you might need:

Nigiri Sushi Mold(as shown above, I got it at daiso; ps outlet)

Bamboo Sushi mat(for making california type of sushi)

Bamboo Spoon

Method:

1. Pour the powered sushi mix into the rice. (the packet serve 3 serving, so i only use up 2/3 of the mixture)
2. Use Bamboo spoon and mix well.

Crabstick Mayo

1. Chopped up 2 pcs of crabstick and mix well with three teaspoon of mayonise.

California Sushi

1. Cut the seaweed into half.
2. Spread the rice evenly in the centre. 
3. Add in filling such as hot dog, crabstick, tuna etc.
4. Use bamboo sushi mat and roll up.
5. Cut the sushi into three.

Nigiri Sushi

1. Cut the seaweed with the width of 2cm.
2. Put rice evenly into the Nigiri Sushi Mold.
3. Place the press lid on top and press down evenly and strongly.
4. Remove the press lid and overturn the container. Remove the nigiri sushi by pressing the centre part of the bottom of the container.
5. Wrap the sushi with the seaweed.
6. You can add the topping with tuna, cucumber & carrot, or crabstick mayo