Name: Blue Butterfly Flower Pea Tea Latte
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 10 min
Total time: 20 min
Yield: 1 person
Ingredients: 250ml milk; 2 to 3g butterfly pea tea; 35ml boiling water; 1/2 tbsp sugar or more; steamed milk or whipped cream as topping

January 22, 2021

Blue Butterfly Flower Pea Tea Latte

Persons

Prep Time

10 minutes

Cook Time

10 minutes

Total Time

20 minutes

Ingredients

250ml milk
2 to 3g butterfly pea tea
35ml boiling water
1/2 tbsp sugar or more
steamed milk or whipped cream as topping

Instructions

1. In a heat-safe cup, add 2 to 3g butterfly pea flower tea, pour the boiled water and let it rest.
2. In a cooking pot, add milk and sugar, mix gently. Cook until almost boiling.
3. Transfer into your serving cup (heat-safe) and pour the tea extract into the milk using a sieve.
4. Add some steamed milk or whipped cream to serve.
Enjoy tea time at home!

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.

December 12, 2020

Shio Ramen v2 – Salt Flavored

Shio Ramen V2 - Salt Flavored

Persons

Prep Time

30 minutes

Cook Time

40 minutes

Total Time

1 hour, 10 minutes

Ingredients

For the soup stock :

700g (approx) Chicken breast or Thighs - boneless
1/2 tsp fine salt
1 tsp sugar
1 tbsp cooking sake or cooking white wine
2L water (approx)

For the soup base :

50 to 80g green parts of a leek - chopped
1 tbsp sesame oil
60ml vegetable oil
5g katsuo/dried bonito flakes
5g garlic cloves - grated
3 tbsp kosher salt
1 tsp kobucha/kelp powder
2 tsp chinese chicken bouillon powder
150ml boiled water
Ramen noodles for 5 people
1 tbsp sesame oil

Instructions

1. Make the soup stock In a big cooking pot, add about 2L water and bring it to a boil. Once it boils add the chicken.
2. Bring it to a boil again, then remove from the heat. Cover and leave it for 1 to 2 hours.
3. Meanwhile make the soup base
In a heat-safe bowl, add katsuo flake, garlic and kosher salt and set it aside. In a small cooking pot, add leek, sesame oil and vegetable oil. Bring it to a boil and once it is boiling, simmer for 3 minutes.
4. Then immediately pour this oil mixture into a bowl. Mix well.
5. Add kobucha, chicken powder and boiled water. Mix well : the salt should melt completely. Set aside. You can leave it until the chicken is ready.
6. Using a cooking sieve, strain the soup base into another bowl. Press or squeeze well against the sieve.
7. Transfer the sieve residual into another bowl and blend it with your hand blender until it is smooth like a paste.
8. Remove the chicken from the water and cut it in slices. Set it aside. With the soup stock, strain once and add more water to reach a total of about 2.5L (it's about 500ml per person) then bring it to a boil.
9. Prepare the noodles Cook your ramen according to the package instructions. Place 2 to 3 tbsp (or more) soup base into your serving ramen bowl, add the boiled soup stock, then place the cooked ramen into the soup.
10. Top your ramen with chicken, leek, egg etc.....Sprinkle sesame, and enjoy :)

December 12, 2020

Homemade Olive Oil Sardines　オイルサーディン

Homemade olive oil sardines

Persons

Prep Time

30 minutes

Cook Time

40 minutes

Total Time

1 hour, 10 minutes

Ingredients

10 sardines in filets - cleaned, scaled
500ml water
5g fine salt
olive oil - enough to cover the sardines

Ingredient A

1 dried red chili or more
1 to 2 bay leaves
1 to 3 garlic cloves (or more!) - thinly sliced
1 tsp soy sauce
some oregano flakes

Instructions

1. Prepare the sardines, Remove if any bones left and cut in half. Remove skin if you prefer.
2. Add 500ml water and add 5g fine salt (1%). Mix. Add the sardines in the salted water and soak for 1 hour.
3. Wipe the sardines with a kitchen towel and place in the frying-pan. Pour some olive oil to cover the sardines. Then add all the ingredient A.
4. Cook over medium-high heat and bring it to a boil. Once it is boiling, reduce the heat to low and simmer for about 40 minutes.
5. Sprinkle salt to your taste. Remove from the heat.
6. Serve hot or cold :)

Notes

You may keep it a few days in the fridge.

October 10, 2020

Homemade Gyoza Wrappers v1 with Philips Pasta Maker

Serving Size

about 50 pieces

Homemade Gyoza Wrappers v1 with Philips Pasta Maker

Ingredients

500g cake/plain flour (T45)
70g potato starch
15g gluten
15g rice flour
230ml water
5g fine salt
potato starch/katakuriko

Instructions

1. In a small cup add water and salt. Mix well and set aside.
2. Mix dry ingredients (plain flour, gluten, potato starch and rice flour) in a bowl. Transfer to the "Philips Pasta Maker" equipped with "0.8mm sheet pasta disk". Close lid.
3. Turn the machine on and choose the setting. Press Start.
4. Slowly pour water mix through the opening in the lid.
5. Gyoza sheet will begin to form and it will come out within 3 minutes. Stop the machine once when the first 10cm are out, then cut them off. Put them back in the machine's mixing tank. That's because the first gyoza sheet is not smooth enough ;-)
6. Resume the machine and the gyoza sheet will be extruded again, as you fold the sheet, dust with potato starch. Do not cut it until the machine stops.
7. Lightly dust your chopping board with potato starch. Lay the sheet of dough on it and cut it out using a circle cookie cutter (about 9cm diameter). Dust the cut out wrappers with katakuriko/potato starch if necessary and set aside. Repeat as many times as you can (do not throw away the excess sheet).
8. Enjoy with your favorite filling!
9. Spread the excess cuts on an oven sheet, sprinkle ketchup and cheese. Bake for about 10 minutes at 200℃. Quick pizza is done :)

September 19, 2020

Homemade Gyoza Wrappers with Kitchenaid

Gyoza Wrappers w KitchenAid Stand mixer

Persons

Prep Time

15 minutes

Cook Time

30 minutes

Total Time

45 minutes

Ingredients

100g cake flour/plain flour (T45)
1/3 tsp fine salt
1/2 tbsp rice flour (optional)
50ml boiled water

Instructions

1. Add flour, salt and rice flour into a large bowl and stir well. Add hot water and stir with a rubber spatula. Then knead the dough by hand for about 1 to 2 minutes until it gets smooth. You can shape it into a ball.
2. Let the dough sit in the bowl for about 15 min, covered with a damp cloth.
3. Remove the bowl of your stand mixer and attach the pasta roller to it.
4. Take some of the dough (about 1/3), shape into an oval. Flatten it and dust it with flour on both sides.
5. Feed the dough through the pasta roller (setting 1 - thickest), at least 3 to 5 times or until the dough is smooth. Turn dial to the thickness setting 3 or 4 and run the dough through once or twice. Repeat (once or twice) at each following position until you reach setting 8. The target thickness really depends on your own preference. I like thin skin, so I roll it until setting 8 :)
6. Lay the rolled out sheet of dough on a cutting board and cut it out, using a circle cookie cutter (8~9cm diameter suggested). Dust the cut out wrappers with katakuriko/potato starch and set aside. Repeat as many times as you can.
Gather all the scrap dough, put it all together and re-roll it a few times until it becomes thin layers again.

Notes

I usually make 300g for 5 people.