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Sunday 2 October 2016

Trio vegetables Dorayaki

Dorayaki

    Who is the Doraemon fan? Well, Doraemon is my childhood memories and I remember it the most in my life. I love the Dorayaki in my previous workplace also my first time eating Dorayaki experience, it is so fluffy and flavorful, yet it is not so sweet to eat and the taste is balance, it seems like that I could eat no matter how much they serve me :).
Pancake in Japan Fukuoka, this is not dorayaki:).

Dorayaki in Japan

    Dorayaki is a common sweet in Japan which you can find easily in any convenient store, market, and specialty store, both in normal size and also mini size. It is also a famous sweet among the Wakashi (Japanese dessert) good to eat with green tea. The Dorayaki has improved since the day of its invention into the various flavor, appearance, and filling, you can find some sort of special Dorayaki if you find one Dorayaki lover.

The Trio vegetables Dorayaki

    The trio vegetables Dorayaki is a colorful Dorayaki recipe consist of green (spinach), orange (carrot), and purple ( Purple sweet potato), grill over low heat on a griddle to prevent brown but soft and fluffy. In addition, stuffed with not only Azuki (red bean) paste, but extra fruit and cream, boost your diet while eating a dessert.

Ingredients for 6 Dorayaki (30 ml for each pancake)

Prepare Time : 20 minutes
Cook Time :20 minutes
Ready In : 50 minutes

Dorayaki Batter
200 gm Pancake Mix
2 nos Whole eggs
1 tablespoon Water
5 tablespoons Granulated sugar
2 tablespoons Honey
1 tablespoon Mirin
Batter coloring
80 gm purple sweet potato
1 teaspoon lemon juice
30 gm Bok choy/ spinach
60 gm Carrot
Pancake filling
200 gm Mashed sweet potato
3 tablespoons Milk
2 tablespoons Granulated sugar
1 pinch Salt
100 ml Cream
1/2 tablespoon Granulated sugar
2 nos  Cherry tomato
2 tablespoons Sweet soy bean paste
1/3 nos (2 slices) persimmon
2 tablespoons sweet red bean paste

Mise en place:

1) Cooked and finely mash the purple sweet potato, then press it through a strainer.
2) Cooked and finely mash the carrot, then press it through a strainer.
3) blend the Bok choi/ Spinach with a little bit of water in a blender, then press it through a strainer.
4) Cube the sweet potato, cooked, and finely mashed, then press it through a strainer.
5) Thinly slice the persimmon into a ring shape.
6) Slice the each cherry tomatoes into three.
7) Whip the cream and sugar into a soft peak.
8) Cook the sweet potato in number(4) with milk, sugar, and salt, cook until it like a paste.

Method:

1) Whip the whole eggs, mirin, and granulated sugar in a bowl, until the mixture becomes light yellow.
2) Then whisk in the honey and mix them well.
3) Mix in the pancake mix batch by batch about three times, then water.
4) divide the pancake batter into 3 small bowls.
5) dye the small bowls of batter with carrot paste, spinach paste, and sweet potato paste, add a teaspoon of the lemon juice into the sweet potato batter bowl to prevent color change.


6) rub some oil in the pan and heat it up, make sure the griddle is free from oil streak.
7) pan fry the pancake over low heat to prevent burn mark, make sure the pancake is cooked.
8) Sandwich the red bean paste and sliced persimmon with the carrot pancake.
9) Sandwich the soybean paste and sliced tomatoes with the spinach pancake.
10) Sandwich the sweet potato paste and cream with the purple sweet potato pancake.


Saturday 1 October 2016

Ten reason to drink green tea

The advantages of green tea.
Green tea is the most advantageous refreshment on the planet.
Green tea
It is stacked with cell fortifications and supplements that emphatically influence the body. This fuses upgraded cerebrum limit, fat decrease, a lower risk of danger and various other fabulous points of interest.

Here are 10 therapeutic favorable circumstances of green tea that have been certified in human investigation contemplates.

Thursday 29 September 2016

Halloween Pumpkin Pie with puff pastry

Pumpkin pie

 

Pumpkin pie is a sweet treat pie with spiced, pumpkin-based custard filling. The pumpkin is an image of harvest time, and pumpkin pie is frequently eaten amid the fall and early winter. In the United States and Canada, it is typically arranged for Thanksgiving and Christmas, and is additionally included at Halloween. 

Wednesday 28 September 2016

Hanami Sushi Roll with simple home ingredients and simple technique

Sushi (すし, 寿司, )
Sushi is a kind of sustenance arrangement beginning in Japan, comprising of cooked vinegared rice (鮨飯 sushi-meshi) consolidated with different ingredients (ネタ neta, for example, raw fish, vegetables and some of the time tropical organic products.

Preparing Green tea

Preparing  Sencha
A kyusu急須 ( Japanese tea kettle ) with a 200-300 ml limit is most suitable for preparing Sencha . The volume of the pot appeared in the picture below is around 300ml.
A foreordained spotlight on setting up an ideal tea will normally help you to furnish your visitors with tasty tea.

Tuesday 27 September 2016

The hidden Japanese green tea

About Japanese Tea

Green tea (お茶) is the fundamental sort of tea that is created and expended in Japan. There are numerous sorts of green tea delivered in Japan. Japanese teas are by and large characterized by sort of development, handling technique and provincial source.


Sencha 煎茶
Sencha is the most widely recognized assortment of Japanese green tea and the tea that a visitor is well on the way to be served when going to a Japanese home. Sencha can be interpreted as "Roasted tea". This term alludes to a more seasoned style of preparing Japanese green tea that was affected by Chinese tea handling strategies. Today, most sencha is steamed rather than container cooked in its underlying stage to avoid oxidation of the leaf.



Sencha is noted for its fragile sweetness, mellow astringency, and elegant green fragrance. The nature of Sencha will shift contingent upon beginning, time of harvest and leaf handling strategies. The early spring harvests, or first picking of the tea shrubbery (known as Ichiban cha一番茶 ), are considered to create the most elevated quality sencha. The primary collect, for the most part, happens in April and May and creates sencha of splendid, luminescent green shading, solid smell and proclaimed sweetness. After a long stretch of lethargy amid the winter, the spring harvests are advanced with supplements, particularly amino acids, sugars, and catechins, which upgrade the flavor and fragrance of spring-picked tea.



Kabusecha (かぶせ茶)

Kabuse Cha is for the most part depicted just like a midpoint amongst sencha and gyokuro. At the end of the day, it has sencha's invigorating flavor furthermore some of gyokuro's sweetness.

The best approach to handle kabusecha is precisely the same as that of sencha and gyokuro. The distinction lies in the development strategy. Kabusecha is likewise a shaded tea like gyokuro, yet to a lower degree. While tea leaves for gyokuro are protected from daylight for no less than 20 days, kabusecha is generally shaded from 1 week to 10 days.

kabusecha, The shading process for kabusecha is likewise diverse in that with gyokuro, the whole tea field is shaded, however for kabusecha what regularly happens is that the tea plant itself is covered. The shading rate is additionally distinctive, with kabusecha around half and gyokuro from 70% to 90% of the light blocked.

Remember however, that both the shading time and the shading rate changes from area to district. A speedy general guideline is that any tea that is not shaded for enough time (around 3 weeks) isn't gyokuro.

Fuka Mushi cha深蒸し茶
Fukamushicha (深蒸し茶, profound steamed tea) is a green tea that is at first steamed for a more drawn out time than what it's thought to be regular. It's usually delivered in the prefecture of Shizuoka.
Ordinarily, the steaming procedure for green tea keeps running for around 30 seconds to 1 minute, and the subsequent tea is called Futsuumushicha (普通蒸し茶, typical steamed tea). Interestingly, fukamushicha is steamed for more than 1 or 2 minutes.


Gyokuro 玉露(Jade Dew)
Gyokuro is viewed as the most astounding evaluation of tea made in Japan. It is made just with the principal flush leaf and its uncommon preparing brings about a tea with a sweet, mellow flavor and crisp, extravagant green fragrance. Gyokuro's sweetness is because of the large amounts of theanine, an amino corrosive that is created by shading the tea hedges from direct daylight for 20 days preceding gathering.


Macha抹茶
Matcha is finely ground powder of extraordinarily developed and handled green tea, like Gyokuro. It is unique in two parts of cultivating and preparing: the green tea plants for matcha are shade-developed for around three weeks before harvest, and the stems and veins are expelled in handling. Amid shaded development, the plant Camellia Sinensis creates more theanine and caffeine. This mix of chemicals is considered to represent the calm vitality individuals may feel from drinking matcha. The powdered type of matcha is devoured uniquely in contrast to tea leaves or tea sacks, and is mixed up in a fluid, commonly water or, milk.

Bancha 番茶
Bancha implies regular tea and alludes to a lower evaluation of sencha that is collected amid the second and third products in the mid-year and harvest time. Bancha, for the most part, contains bigger leaves and upper stems, which are disposed of amid the creation of sencha. Contrasted with sencha, bancha is not so much fragrant but rather more astringent. By the by, bancha is abundantly refreshing in Japan for its more strong flavor. As a result of its solid character, it runs well with nourishment.

kyobancha京番茶
Kyobancha is a conventional bancha made in the prefecture of Kyoto (Uji city), with smoky fragrance and low severity and bitterness.

Kyobancha is otherwise called Iribancha (いり番茶 Roasted tea) in light of the fact that it experiences a cooking procedure. It is likewise nicknamed akachan bancha (赤ちゃん番茶, infant tea) in light of the fact that it has no caffeine, subsequently a child can drink it.
Bancha leaves are steamed, sun-dried and after that cooked on a hot plate at high warmth for around 3 minutes.

Not at all like most Japanese green teas, there isn't any rolling procedure included. The leaves additionally look enormous in light of the fact that they are more established than those utilized for gyokuro and sencha.
Kyobancha has next to no caffeine content since caffeine is crushed in the cooking procedure, much the same as Hou Ji cha.

Kukicha 茎茶
Kukicha is known as twig tea or stalk tea. It comprises of a mix of leaves with the stems and stalks ordinarily disposed of in the generation of sencha and gyokuro. The flavor profile is light and invigorating with a mellow sweetness and the smell is new and green.



Hojicha ほじ茶
Hojicha is delivered by cooking bancha or kukicha over high warmth. The outcome is a flavorful tea with a reviving and roasty taste and for all intents and purposes no intensity. The level of roastiness in the smell and flavor will rely on upon whether the tea is delicately or all the more profoundly broiled. Not at all like other Japanese teas, hojicha has a particular ruddy chestnut appearance in the glass. Lower in caffeine, it makes an extraordinary after-supper tea.


Mecha (芽茶, bud tea)
Mecha is produced using the buds of the tea plant. These buds are isolated during the production gyokuro and premium sencha handling.
In spite of the fact that mecha is less expensive than both gyokuro and sencha, it is all things considered of equivalent quality. On the off chance that you purchase mecha you can drink a top notch tea at a lower cost, so it's certainly a decent arrangement as I would see it.

Mecha has another preferred standpoint: it can be re-steeped commonly without losing its flavor, while sencha must be re-steeped 2 or 3 times.
 Mecha has a solid fragrance and flavor. Be watchful when brewing since when over steeped it might turn out to be too astringent. Maybe this is the motivation behind why the Japanese don't esteem mecha as very as gyokuro or great sencha, despite the fact that the development strategy is the same.

Konacha粉茶
Konacha is a kind of green tea, made out of the dust, tea buds and little abandons that are left subsequent to preparing Gyokuro or Sencha. Konacha is less expensive than Sencha and is regularly served at sushi eateries. It is likewise advertised as Gyokurokonacha

Genmaicha 玄米茶
Genmaicha is a mix of bancha with all around toasted chestnut rice (genmai). The rice includes a somewhat nutty taste. The gentle kind of Genmaicha and its low caffeine content make it a perfect after-supper tea.

Temomi Cha 手揉み茶
Temomicha is a rare "hand-rolled tea" which delivered the conventional path by the hand of artisans from beginning to end, in the age of machinery.
The procedure starts with hand-picking the new-developed leaves from a unique tea woods held for temomi cha. The leaves are then gathered in a bamboo steamer wicker container for the basic steaming stage, led by the senior temomi expert.

Taking after steaming, the leaves are approximately shaken to expel dampness. Next, comes a light rolling and after that heavy rolling. The last stages incorporate evacuating clusters, trailed by the fine moving into needles. Finally, the leaves are  genspread to dry, and the 12-hour long process is finished!

The subsequent needle-like tea is unfathomably seasoned rich and is best soaks very thought to highlight its one of a kind subtleties and crisp taste. A run of the mill soaking includes 10g of leaves soaks with 2.5 oz of 100°F water for 2-3 minutes. A second and third soaking are conceivable, with the flavor changing every time. The temomi procedure keeps up the leaves in place, so the full leaf can be seen flawlessly spread out in the tea kettle. The leaves are palatable and can be eaten either with a serving of mixed greens or all alone.

Tea Producing Region in Japan

Shizuoka Prefecture
Shizuoka is the biggest creation focus in Japan, delivering more than 40% of Japan's tea. The majority of the tea delivered here is Sencha. Honyama is an outstanding tea creating the locale that incorporates numerous tea gardens. Kawane, Tenryu, and the Abe River zone in the north create the premium tea with the attributes of an invigorating smell and gentle taste exceptional to the generation zone in the mountains.
Tea farm around mount Fuji.
Kagoshima Prefecture
Kagoshima, situated on the southern island of Kyushu, is the second biggest creation region after Shizuoka. The locale creates the broadest assortment of green teas, with a taste that is loaded with quality and abundance. The atmosphere in Kagoshima is viewed as perfect for tea: warm and sticky for a significant part of the year. This permits five harvests to be gathered from early April until mid-October.


Kyoto Prefecture
The Uji locale is said to be the starting point of Japanese tea and is a verifiable generation range. Uji delivers fantastic Gyokuro, Matcha, and Sencha.


Fukuoka Prefecture
Yame is a well-known creation zone for Gyokuro and produces the biggest measure of value Gyokuro in Japan. The territory appreciates very much depleted soil and cool temperatures, which deliver superb tea. The taste is rich and sweet and brimming with fragrance.


Kumamoto Prefecture
With greenery enclosures arranged in a hilly area, Kumamoto is outstanding for its light, sweet-smelling and gently enhanced Sencha.


Saga Prefecture

The town of Ureshino is known for its quality Sencha yet is especially renowned for its Kamairi-cha. Kamairi tea is not steamed like most Japanese teas; rather, it is broiled and moved, utilizing creation strategies like Chinese green tea.It has a less astringent, invigorating, and mellow taste.


Gyokuro: The Making of Finest Green Tea in Japan

The Japanese have loved Gyokuro for a long time as the finest green tea. Presently the best grades of this tea are turning out to be all the more broadly accessible outside of Japan as more tea beaus figure out how to value this brilliantly fragrant and sensitive tea. The English interpretation for Gyokuro is Jade Dew, which is an adept reference to its gemstone-like appearance and normally sweet flavor.
What makes Gyokuro so uncommon? The essential components that add to making this extraordinary tea are the means by which the leaf is developed and how the leaf is handled in the wake of picking.

Gyokuro Harvesting and Shade Cultivation
Gyokuro is developed from the tea varietal known as Yabukita(やぶき), which is a little leaf, sweet tea that is utilized as a part of large portions of Japan's most noteworthy quality green teas.
Gyokuro is made just with the soonest leaf buds of the spring harvest. The tea is developed under shade spread (utilizing reed or straw screens) for 20 days before gathering starts. Developing the tea in diffuse daylight decreases photosynthesis in the youthful leaf buds. Subsequently, the tea plant creates more chlorophyll, which changes the extents of the sugars, amino acids, caffeine, and flavanols that add to the appearance, fragrance and taste. Less exposure to  the sunlight brings about a mellow and sweet flavor and less bitterness.

Gyokuro Processing Skills
Exceptional, work concentrated preparing abilities are required to create Gyokuro. Cautious control over the handling is important in light of the fact that the shade-developed leaf buds are gentler and hold more dampness and flavor than numerous different sorts of green tea. To start with, the deliberately picked leaves are daintily steamed to counteract oxidation. The second step is an underlying rolling and afterward air-drying, before a fine moving to obtain shape and flavor. The outcome is a crude tea known as aracha荒茶(あらちゃ), an unpleasant evaluation of tea with high water content.
The aracha is later sorted into different leaf grades, known as tencha碾茶(てんちゃ. The finest grades of tencha are then chosen to make Gyokuro. At this stage, the tea experiences numerous protracted rolling and drying stages to complete the tea into its needle-like structure. At long last, the completed tea is permitted to settle or develop for no less than a week with a specific end goal to promote build up its trademark flavors.

The patio nurseries with the best notoriety for making the most elevated quality Gyokuro tea are situated in three districts: Hoshinomura in Yame (Kyushu), Joyoshi in Kyoto and Okabe in Shizuoka (Honshu).

Preparing Gyokuro

Gyokuro is a delicate green tea and should be painstakingly blended to draw out the best flavor. Cooler water (around 140 degrees Fahrenheit) and a marginally bigger measure of leaf (around 2 teaspoons for each glass) are prescribed to uncover the unique kind of Gyokuro.

Brilliant Gyokuro will yield up to 3 delightful imbuements. Since the primary imbuement has permitted the leaves to open up, blend the second mixture for a much shorter time (around 30 seconds) and the third implantation for around 60 seconds. 


The way of tea brewing will update soon, thanks for reading and have a nice day :) .

Monday 26 September 2016

Grill Mackerel Topped with herbs breadcrumbs and served with lemon

About Mackerel

    Mackerel commonly have vertical stripes on their backs and profoundly forked tails. Numerous species are limited in their circulation runs and live in isolated populaces or fish stocks in view of topography.

Sunday 25 September 2016

Friday 23 September 2016

AvoTato canape and ApriCream Canape

Canape

Canape, in the strict sense, refers to a toasted or fried rectangular slice of crustless bread also termed a crouton. In the category of hors d'oeuvres, however, the term canape refers to a small open face sandwich which may be topped with an endless variety of savory food items. This canape is comprised of four parts : base, spread, main body, and garnish.

The base of Canape

The base serves as the foundation for the canape. It must be firm enough to handle with two fingers, without its topping spilling over.
Bread with a firmer consistency, such as pumpernickel, are preferred for the base since they may be used without toasting. A more delicate type of bread should be toasted, fried, or baked (dried) in the oven. This will give it the sturdier needed to act as a canape base. Bases can be cut in a variety of interesting shapes before being used, such as rectangle, square, circle, oval, crescent, diamond, or triangle.

Blend tea of Green and Rosemary

Blend tea

Not only for the cooking, a herb could be consumed as a tea as well. Rosemary, a camphor smell like herbs which always serve to cook red meat, its pungent smell even strong to serve as a tea. However, its mild flavor is able to active your brain if you endure yourself to swallow it through the throat, no doubt the pungent smell will wake you up immediately when you are feeling snooze in the middle of your work. Rosemary is a good morning tea for those who hard to awake at the very early morning because its nutritious works well in blood circulation, hence able to improve one's concentration and memorization, furthermore, the rosemary could also relieve muscle pain.
    On the other hand, one's pregnant should be avoided overtake of this pungent herb. It should be hard to drink if a tea is filled with only camphor like smell, even I feel dizzy when I approach my cup to my mouth, but if it comes with multi-flavor, it will become easier to drink.

    At the simple blend tea recipe here, the rosemary will mix with green tea and lemon skin, which improve the refreshment to another stage, and I hope you will like it.

Ingredients For one person (2 cups)

1 tablespoon         Green tea leaf
1 sprig                  Rosemary
as need                 Lemon skin
500 ml                 Hot water (90°C)

Method:

1) Slap the sprig of rosemary to force it release its smell and flavor.
 

2) Brew the green tea and rosemary in a tea pot with hot water.






3) Brew for one minutes.
 
4) Serve the tea with lemon skin.

Thursday 22 September 2016

Crepe sandwich with bacon spinach and banana smoothy



Crepe Sandwich

  For those who want something different with your sandwich, please have a look, it is Crepe Sandwich!!!

Banana Choco Pizza

   Banana Choco Pizza

  I feel like I want to eat something chewy, crispy, and sweet, it is hot around my place so I prefer something cold, but not too cold, just enough to release heat. Hence I got this recipe, Banana Choco!

Wednesday 21 September 2016

Grill pork Onigiri

Onigiri

Onigiri means "Gripping" in English, the word is referred as rice ball in English and it is a traditional rice meal in Japan, its shape is to beautify the lunch box and also for the purpose to stuffed with various seasoned ingredients, such as sour plum, Salmon Flakes, and salted fish roe.

Mapo Toufu 麻婆豆腐

About Mapo Tofu

Mapo Toufu
        Mapo tofu also known as Chen Mapo Tofu (陈麻婆豆腐), it is a well-known dish from the province of Szechuan in China, the dish itself is spicy and is able to numb your tongue, and is consist of bean curd, minced meat, chili and Szechuan pepper, sometimes, eggplant could also be the main ingredients of this dish. Mapo tofu was founded in the Qing Dynasty, created by the Chen lady boss in the restaurant of Wanfu Bridge in Cheng Du.
    The appearance of the Mapo Tofu is bright red in color, contrasted with red, green, and white, the bean curd should be nice in shape without collapse, as we know the bean curd is fragile and break easily. The taste is the harmony of numb, spice, hot, soft, chewy, and fragrant.
    Mapo tofu is one of the dishes which highlighted the taste of the hot and spicy in Szechuan cuisine.

Cook Time

Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 10 min
Ready in: 20 min

Yields: 2 people 






Ingredients:








one block Soft beancurd cubed
120 grams Minced pork
1 stick leek brunoise
1/3 stick spring onion brunoise
300 ml chicken stock
2 tablespoon diluted corn starch
2 tablespoon vegetable oil
one pinch Szechuan Pepper powder
1 teaspoon (A)Grated garlic
1 tablespoon (A)Doubanjiang
1/2 tablespoon (A)Sweet Bean Sauce
1 teaspoon (A)Chili Oil
1 teaspoon (A)Chinese Douchi / Fermented Black Beans
1 teaspoon (B)Soysauce
1 teaspoon (B)Oyster Sauce
one pinch (B)Ground black pepper







Method:
1) Mise en place: cube the beancurd with 2x2cm. Brunoise or thin slice the leek and spring onion.

2) Mise en place: Chopped the salted black bean. Dilute the cornstarch with the water with the same ratio.

3) Heat a pan and begin to fry the minced pork, until the minced pork released the fat.

4) Seize the fire, then add in all the group (A) ingredient into the sauteed pork.

5) Apply the heat and cook the mixture until fragrant, then add the chicken stock, bring to a boil then seize fire when it reaches the boiling point.

6) Simmer a pot of water and add a pinch of salt in it (The water is just enough to blanch the beancurd).

7)  Blanching the beancurd will harden the protein in the beancurd, hence, the beancurd will hardly collapse compare to the one which is without blanching.

8) Strain off the beancurd water, then adds the beancurd into the pan of spicy sauce.

9) bring the Mapo Tofu to simmering, add extra chicken stock if needed.

10) Season with group (B) ingredients.

11) Add the brunoise leek and spring onion, while heating up and thicken the Mapo Tofu with diluted corn starch.

12) Scoop the beancurd carefully into a plate then enjoy.


Cooking with picture

Stir the minced pork in a hot wok/pan with vegetable oil.

Add the group (A) ingredient when the meat is cooked.

Then you will have a spicy look of the mixture, seize the fire and go to next step.

Blanch the bean curd with the simmering salt water.

Strain off the water in the bean curd.

Add the bean curd into the spicy meat sauce, adjust the liquid.

Adjust the taste with group (C) ingredient, taste it then add the leek and spring onion.

Mix well everything but dont't break the beancurd.