Name: Black bread loaf - Black shokupan
Prep time: 2 h
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 2 h 45 min
Ingredients: 340g bread flour (or 335g/T65 and 5g/ gluten flour ); 10g black cocoa powder; 230ml water; 12g whole milk powder; 30g sugar; 6g salt; 10g glucose syrup; 32g unsalted butter; 5g active dry yeast

May 11, 2020

Black bread loaf – Black shokupan with bread machine

Black bread loaf - Black shokupan

Prep Time: 2 hours

Cook Time: 45 minutes

Total Time: 2 hours, 45 minutes

Asian & Wafu, Bread, Bread & Pizza, Cooking, Cooking Recipe, Danish Pastry, Everyday cooking

Black bread loaf - Black shokupan

Ingredients

340g bread flour (or 335g/T65 and 5g/gluten flour)
10g black cocoa powder
230ml water
12g whole milk powder
30g sugar
6g salt
10g glucose syrup
32g unsalted butter
5g active dry yeast

Instructions

1. Add water, bread flour (and gluten, optionally), black cocoa powder, sugar, salt, glucose syrup and milk powder in the pan of your bread machine. Select dough cycle and press start as per manufacturer's instructions.
2. After 5 min add butter in the pan and add yeast in the yeast compartment.
3. When the dough cycle is complete, remove it from the machine and place on a floured surface.
4. Punch the dough down and divide it in 3 pieces. Cover them with a dry cloth. Let rest for about 15min.
5. Working with one piece at at time, use a rolling pin, roll the dough back and forth, shaping it into a flat oval. Fold it length-wise, bringing both sides onto the centerline. Then roll it up. Place the shaped dough, seam side down, in a greased loaf pan. Repeat with the other dough balls, placing another in the center, and the last one at the other end of the pan.
Cover and let rise for 40~60min or until the dough rises to 85~90% of the square pan height.
6. Preheat the oven to 190℃. Cover the pan with a lid and bake for 30 minutes.
7. Unmold and transfer the bread to a cooling rack. Wait till it completely cools down before slicing.

https://atelierlalune.com/2020/05/black-bread-loaf-black-shokupan-with-bread-machine/

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.

https://atelierlalune.com/2020/05/japanese-dry-curry/

May 3, 2020

Soy Sauce ‘Shoyu’ Senbei

Shoyu Senbei - Senbei with soy sauce

Prep Time: 15 minutes

Cook Time: 20 minutes

Total Time: 35 minutes

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

Shoyu Senbei - Senbei with soy sauce

Ingredients

20g rice flour
1/2 tsp sugar
1/4 tsp fine salt
1/2 tbsp grated parmesan
1 tbsp white sesame
20ml boiled water
150g steamed japanese rice (reheat with a microwave if was frozen)

For the dipping :

1/2 tbsp soy sauce
1/2 tsp mirin
1/2 tsp sugar
1/4 sheet of nori/seaweed - cut into small pieces

Instructions

1. In a heat-safe bowl, add rice flour, sugar, grated parmesan and salt. Mix well.
2. Slowly pour the boiled water, using a cooking scale to help you add the right quantity. Mix with a silicone spatula until it comes together.
3. Add the steamed rice (microwave it for 30 sec at 600W if it was frozen) and sesame. Knead with your hand (or a spatula) until well combined. Pre-heat the oven to 200℃.
4. Spoon some rice mixture (about 1 to 2 tbsp) and make it into a ball, then flatten it with your hand. Make it even thinner, using your fingers. Place on a baking sheet on an oven tray. Repeat until you have used up all the rice mixture.
NOTE : a thinner senbei will be crispier.
5. In a small bowl, add the dipping ingredients (soy sauce, mirin and sugar) and mix. Set aside.
6. Bake senbei 10 min, pull it out from the oven once and flip them all once. Brush the dipping sauce from #5 onto each senbei and sprinkle some nori over the sauce.
7. Then put it back to the oven and bake for another 10 min.
8. Transfer to a wire rack.

https://atelierlalune.com/2020/05/soy-sauce-shoyu-senbei/

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 28, 2020

Face mask – another design

Here is another face mask design. It is quite efficient as it requires less fabric than the previous one ;-) I also tried with Jersey fabric for the outer shell and it worked out very fine :-)

Download from the product page here – don’t worry it’s free of course!

April 25, 2020

Char Siu (BBQ pork belly)

Prep Time: 15 minutes

Cook Time: 45 minutes

Total Time: 1 hour

Asian & Wafu, Cooking, Cooking Recipe, Everyday cooking, Fast & Yummy, Pork

Servings: 5 persons

Char Siu (BBQ pork belly)

Ingredients

1kg skinless, boneless pork belly - cut in 2 or 3 long stripes

For the seasoning :

50g white sugar
2 tbsp soy sauce
1 1/2 tbsp dark soy sauce
1 garlic clove - grated
1 thumb of ginger - finely julienne
1 tbsp shaoxing cooking wine or cooking sake or white wine
1 anise seed
1/2 tbsp oyster sauce
1 tbsp honey

Instructions

1. In a bowl add all the seasoning ingredients and mix.
2. Place the pork in a container or ziplock bag. Add the sauce (from step 1) and Marinate 24 to 48 hours in the fridge.
Next day
3. Preheat oven to 190℃.
4. Line a tray with foil and place the marinated pork. Bake for 20 minutes.
5. Remove from the oven once and flip the pork. Bake for another 15 minutes at 200℃.
6. Remove from the oven once more and flip the pork. Cook again, 8 to 10 minutes, at 200℃.
7. Meanwhile, prepare the sauce. Transfer the dipping sauce from the ziplock bag to a small cooking pan and bring it to a boil. Once it has boiled, simmer for a few minutes or until the sauce has thickened a little. Set aside.
8. Wait 10-15 minutes before slicing.
9. Slice the pork thickness as per your taste, then serve with sauce!

Notes

Char Siu is good for the ramen topping, also fried rice! Or why not make the char siu buns:)

https://atelierlalune.com/2020/04/char-siu-bbq-pork-belly/