Name: Japanese dry curry
Yield: 5 persons
Ingredients: 3 garlic cloves - finely chopped; 650g ground beef; 1 onion - finely chopped; 1 red onion - finely chopped; 1 carrot - finely chopped; 1 green bell pepper - roughtly chopped; ; For the seasoning :; 2 tbsp vegetable oil; 3 tbsp cooking sake or cooking white wine; 1 1/2 tbsp soy sauce; 2 tbsp worcestershire sauce; 2 tbsp honey; 1 tbsp ketchup; 40g tomato paste; 1 1/2 tsp kosher salt; 3 tbsp curry powder; 1/2 tbsp paprika powder; ; 1 tsp mustard; 1 tsp sugar; ; 3 to 5 hard boiled egg for topping

May 6, 2020

Japanese dry curry

Asian & Wafu, Beef, Cooking, Cooking Recipe, Everyday cooking, Fast & Yummy, Rice, Vegetables

Servings: 5 persons

Japanese dry curry

Ingredients

3 garlic cloves - finely chopped
650g ground beef
1 onion - finely chopped
1 red onion - finely chopped
1 carrot - finely chopped
1 green bell pepper - roughtly chopped

For the seasoning :

2 tbsp vegetable oil
3 tbsp cooking sake or cooking white wine
1 1/2 tbsp soy sauce
2 tbsp worcestershire sauce
2 tbsp honey
1 tbsp ketchup
40g tomato paste
1 1/2 tsp kosher salt
3 tbsp curry powder
1/2 tbsp paprika powder
1 tsp mustard
1 tsp sugar
3 to 5 hard boiled egg for topping

Instructions

1. In a wok or skillet, heat 2 tbsp vegetable oil and fry garlic until fragrant. Add onion, red onion, carrot and cook, finally add ground beef, continue stir-frying until the meat is no longer pink.
2. Add "seasoning" ingredients (cooking sake, soy sauce, worcestershire sauce, honey, ketchup, tomato paste, kosher salt, curry powder, paprika powder). Stir for another 3~5min over low heat. Then add green bell pepper. Cook for another few minutes.
3. Add mustard and sugar. Stir well.
4. Serve with hot steamed rice, top with an egg over the rice.

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April 30, 2020

Chicken amakara – sweet and sour with egg sauce

Chicken amakara - sweet and sour with egg sauce

Prep Time: 30 minutes

Cook Time: 40 minutes

Total Time: 1 hour, 10 minutes

Asian & Wafu, Chicken, Cooking, Cooking Recipe, Egg, Everyday cooking, Fast & Yummy

Servings: 5 persons

Chicken amakara - sweet and sour with egg sauce

Ingredients

700g boneless, skinless chicken breasts - cut into bite sizes
60g katakuriko/potato starch

Ingredient A

2 tbsp cooking sake or cooking white wine
1 tsp white sugar
1/3 tsp fine salt

For the seasoning sauce

2 1/2 tbsp soy sauce
150ml apple juice + 50ml water (or 40ml apple syrup + 160ml water)
2 to 3 tsp white sugar
2 tsp vinegar (apple cider vinegar)

For the egg sauce

2 egg - hard boiled and chopped
1/4 onion - finely chopped, soaked in water, then drained well
60g mayonnaise
1 garlic - grated
1 tsp white sugar
1/4 tsp fine salt

Instructions

1. In a small bowl, add all the egg sauce ingredients and mix. Chill in the fridge until the chicken is ready.
2. In a medium bowl add chicken and ingredient A. Marinade for 15 minutes at least.
3. Meanwhile, make the seasoning. In a small bowl add all the seasoning ingredients and mix. Set aside.
4. Add katakuriko/potato starch into a bowl with chicken and mix well to coat the chicken evenly.
5. In a frying-pan, heat 2 to 3 tbsp vegetable oil, place all chicken and cook. Flip once, cover and simmer for about 3 minutes.
6. Uncover and cook them until both sides are nicely brown.
7. Pour all the seasoning in one go over the chicken and mix the sauce evenly in the pan.
8. Transfer the chicken onto a serving plate and garnish with the egg sauce :-)

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April 10, 2020

Soft Dinner Buns with your Home Bakery

Prep Time: 1 hour

Cook Time: 1 hour

Total Time: 2 hours

Bread, Bread & Pizza, Cooking, Cooking Recipe, Everyday cooking, Fast & Yummy

Soft Dinner Buns with your Home Bakery

Ingredients

For 8 buns :

260g bread flour (or 255g/T65 and 5g/gluten flour)
20g white sugar
4g kosher salt
23g unsalted butter
65ml whole milk
130ml water
1/2 tsp mayonnaise
4g dry yeast

For 6 buns :

200g bread flour (or 196g/T65 and 4g/gluten flour)
15g white sugar
3g kosher salt
18g unsalted butter
50ml whole milk
100ml water
1/2 tsp mayonnaise
3g dry yeast

Instructions

1. Add bread flour, (or T65 + gluten flour), sugar, salt, butter, milk, water and mayonnaise in the pan of your bread machine. Add yeast in your machine's yeast compartment. Select dough cycle and press start as per manufacturer's instructions.
2. When the dough cycle is complete, remove it from the machine and place on a floured surface.
3. Punch the dough down and divide it in 8 (or 6 pieces) pieces. Cover it with a damp cloth. Let it rest for 10 to 15min.
4. Shape each piece into a round ball. Arrange on lined baking trays. Cover and let rise for 40~60min in a warm place or until the dough has doubled in volume.
5. Bake in a preheated 180℃ oven for about 15min. Remove from the oven and let it cool down on a wire rack.

https://atelierlalune.com/2020/04/dinner-soft-buns-bread-with-your-bread-machine/

April 10, 2020

Beef Udon – Japanese Niku Udon

Beef "Japanese Niku" Udon

Prep Time: 30 minutes

Cook Time: 15 minutes

Total Time: 45 minutes

Asian Noodles, Beef, Cooking, Cooking Recipe, Everyday cooking, Fast & Yummy, Soup

Servings: 5 persons

Beef "Japanese Niku" Udon

Ingredients

For the udon soup

2L water
1 katsuo dashi pack - optional
3 tbsp soy sauce
4 tbsp mirin
1 tbsp sugar
2 tsp fine salt
2 tbsp hondashi powder

For the beef topping

500g beef - shaved or sliced as thinly as possible, and cut into bite sizes
Seasoning for the beef
20g fresh ginger - cut into thin match sticks
4 tbsp soy sauce
4 tbsp cooking sake or white cooking wine
2 tbsp mirin
5 tbsp water
2 tbsp white sugar
1/2 tsp hondashi powder
Some scallion - finely chopped or sliced
Udon noodles for 5 people
NOTE : When I don't have mirin in stock at home, I use "apple syrup". Dilute it five times with water.

Instructions

1. Making the beef topping
In a cooking pot, add all the seasoning ingredients for the beef, and start to cook over medium-high heat. Just before it boils, add the beef. Cook the beef, stirring occasionally. Once it has boiled, turn the heat to low and simmer for 5 min. Set aside.
2. Making the udon soup
In a big cooking pot, add 2L water and katsuo dashi pack (optional, if manage to get some). Turn the heat to high. Just before it boils, add all the soup ingredients (soy sauce, mirin, sugar, salt and dashi powder) and bring it to a boil. Remove the dashi pack powder from the soup. Set aside.
3. In another large pot, bring water to a boil over high heat. Add the udon and cook until just softish (or the hardness you like of course). Drain and split the udon noodles in each large serving bowl. Pour the hot udon soup form #2 over the noodles.
4. Top with the cooked beef and sprinkle some of sliced scallions over the beef. Serve immediately!
If you like it spicy, I suggest you use "Ichimi Togarashi" or "Yuzu Kosho"

Notes

In Europe it is a bit difficult to find thinly sliced beef. So I usually purchase a whole cut of beef, then I freeze it and slice it myself. These days I love to use "Basse Cote à Braiser" for this dish.

https://atelierlalune.com/2020/04/beef-udon-japanese-niku-udon/

April 9, 2020

Curry senbei (okaki) Japanese Rice Crackers

Prep Time: 20 minutes

Cook Time: 30 minutes

Total Time: 50 minutes

Bread & Pizza, Cookies, Cooking, Cooking Recipe, Fast & Yummy, Japanese, Rice, Sweet cooking

Servings: about 15 senbei

Curry senbei (okaki) Japanese Rice Crackers

Ingredients

20g rice flour
15 to 20g Japanese curry roux (grated) or 1/2 tbsp curry powder
1/2 tsp fine salt
1/3 tsp sugar
20ml boiled water
150g steamed japanese rice (microwave it if the rice was frozen)
1 tbsp sesame

Instructions

1. In a heat-safe bowl, add rice flour, grated curry roux (or curry powder), sugar and salt. Mix well.
2. Slowly pour the boiled water, using a digital cooking scale. Mix with a silicone spatula until it comes together.
3. Add the steamed rice (microwave it 30s at 600W if it was frozen) and sesame. Knead with your hand (or spatula) until well combined. Pre-heat the oven to 200℃ degree.
4. Spoon some rice mixture (1 to 2 tbsp) and make a ball shape, then flatten it with your hand. Make it thinner using your finger. Place on a baking sheet on an oven tray. Repeat until you use up all the rice mixture.
NOTE : Thinner will make a more crispy senbei!
5. Bake the tray 10min, remove from the oven once and flip all the senbei. Then put it back to the oven and bake again for 10 min.
6. Transfer to a wire rack.

Notes

I also tried with a "Farine de riz complet" and it worked.

https://atelierlalune.com/2020/04/curry-senbei-okaki-japanese-curry-rice-crackers/

April 6, 2020

Nutella in cookies

Nutella-in-Cookies

Prep Time: 30 minutes

Cook Time: 10 minutes

Total Time: 40 minutes

Cookies, Cooking, Cooking Recipe, Fast & Yummy, Sweet cooking

Nutella-in-Cookies

Ingredients

35g unsalted butter - soften
15g brown sugar
30g white sugar
a dash of salt
15g egg
60g plain flour/cake flour (T45)
1/8 tsp baking soda
some of nutella

Instructions

1. In a bowl, sift together flour and baking soda. Set aside. Pre-heat the oven 170℃.
2. Start with the Nutella filling Use a teaspoon and place 10 portions of Nutella on the prepared baking sheet. Place them gently in the freezer for 20 to 30 minutes or until firm. As they get harder they will be easy to use.
3. Meanwhile make the cookie dough In a bowl, add the butter (softened), sugar (both brown and white), salt and mix well with a spatula until smooth.
4. Incorporate the egg little by little (to prevent curdling) and make into a smooth mixture.
5. Mix in the dry ingredients from #1 until combined with a spatula. Wrap the dough with a plastic wrap and let it sit about 30min in the fridge.
6. Divide the cookie dough into 10 pieces (about 15g each). Roll each one into a ball, then flatten it. Place one frozen nutella portion (from the freezer) in the middle of the flattened cookie and pull the edges together to wrap the nutella ball.
7. Place them on a cooking sheet. Bake for 9~10min until the cookies look puffy but the centers still look soft. Do not overbake.
8. Remove from the oven. At that point I like to immediately press lightly the cookies to create a sort of decoration. Let it cool on the trays for about 5 minutes, then transfer the cookies to a wire rack to cool down completely.

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