Name: Oreo pocky
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 10 min
Total time: 55 min
Ingredients: 40g cake flour/plain flour (T45); 10g whole-wheat flour; 15g unsalted butter; 15ml whole milk; 15g white sugar; dash of salt; ; 2 to 3 oreo cookies - remove the cream layer inside the oreo cookies.; 60g white chocolate

August 6, 2020

Oreo pocky

Prep Time: 45 minutes

Cook Time: 10 minutes

Total Time: 55 minutes

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

Oreo pocky

Ingredients

40g cake flour/plain flour (T45)
10g whole-wheat flour
15g unsalted butter
15ml whole milk
15g white sugar
dash of salt
2 to 3 oreo cookies - remove the cream layer inside the oreo cookies.
60g white chocolate

Instructions

1. Place flour, sugar, salt in a food processor and process to mix, then add butter and milk. Re-process the machine and run until blended well (until the dough turns like a crumbly ball).
2. Transfer the dough on a lightly floured surface and knead it to shape into a circle. Roll out the dough to about 0.3 to 0.5 cm thickness square shape and cut them into a long stick shape using the knife.
3. Place them on the baking sheet you prepared.
4. Bake them for about 8 to 10 mins preheated oven (180℃). Let the pocky cool down completely.
5. Process the cookies to a fine crumb in a food processor. Set aside.
6. Melt the white chocolate in a hot water bath (50℃), brush the chocolate all sides of pocky, let the excess drip off. Immediately sprinkle oreo crumbs over the chocolate. Repeat all pocky to finish. Place on the plate and chill until chocolate has set.

https://atelierlalune.com/2020/08/oreo-pocky/

July 14, 2020

How to cook Japanese rice without a rice cooker

Prep Time: 30 minutes

Cook Time: 20 minutes

Total Time: 50 minutes

Asian & Wafu, Cooking, Cooking Recipe, Everyday cooking, Rice

How to cook Japanese rice without a rice cooker

Ingredients

3 cups Japanese rice (about 450g)
600ml water
If you want to make less or more :
1 cup Japanese rice (about 150g)
200ml water
2 cup Japanese rice (about 300g)
400ml water
4 cup Japanese rice (about 600g)
800ml water

Instructions

1. Wash the rice and drain well. Transfer into a bowl and soak with 600ml water for about 30 to 60 minutes.
2. Transfer rice and water into a large cooking pot. Cover and cook over high heat, bring it to a boil. Once it boiled then, simmer (over the lowest heat) for 10 minutes.
3. Remove from the heat and let it steam for 10 to 12 minutes (do not open the lid yet.)
4. Fluff the steamed rice with a rice paddle gently.

Notes

You can also freeze the steamed rice in plastic containers for a later use, or if you have leftovers.

https://atelierlalune.com/2020/07/how-to-cook-japanese-rice-without-a-rice-cooker/

May 8, 2020

Making Kazari Sushi : Sakura petals

Please take a look at my sushi making video!

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 :-)

https://atelierlalune.com/2020/04/chicken-amakara-sweet-and-sour-with-egg-sauce/

April 22, 2020

Pão de queijo – Brazilian Cheese Bread

Pão de queijo - Brazilian Cheese Bread

Prep Time: 15 minutes

Cook Time: 20 minutes

Total Time: 35 minutes

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

Pão de queijo - Brazilian Cheese Bread

Ingredients

1 egg
1/2 cup (100ml) whole milk
30g olive oil
40g grated cheese - your choice
100g tapioca starch
a dash of salt
1 tbsp grated parmesan
1 or 2 garlic cloves - grated (optional)

Instructions

1. Add all the ingredients in a blender (or the pot of your hand blender) and pulse until smooth. Use a spatula to scrape down the sides and blend very well.
2. Pour the prepared batter into a mini-muffin tin, fill each to about 70%.
3. Bake for 15-20 minutes at 200℃. Remove from the oven and let cool on a rack for a few minutes.

Notes

The texture is a bit different when you cook with mini muffin pan and silicone mini muffin pants.

https://atelierlalune.com/2020/04/pao-de-queijo-brazilian-cheese-bread/

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/