Japanese Cuisine

Boring weekend when you do not have any outdoor activity. Thus cooking is always the best way to get rid of the boredom. Japanese Cuisine, sushi is vinegared rice, usually topped with other ingredients including fish (cooked or uncooked) and vegetables.Today's recipes are Japanese Sushi, Tempura and Yakitori Chicken.

Japanese Sushi
Ingredients

1) Sushi Nori (also known as seaweed)
2) Sushi-su (Japanese Vinegar)
3) Round-Short Rice @ Japanese Rice
4) Sesame Seed
5) Kikoman Soy Sauce
6) Sugar
7) 10-15 eggs
8) Seafood like Salmon, Shrimps, Crab Stick
9) Vegetables like Cucumber @ Avocado
10) Tuna or any other prefered other ingredients
11) Mayonese & Wasabi

Utensils
1) Sushi Mat
2) Wooden Spatula & Container@Big Bowl

Steps

1) Boil the rice with reduced amount of water. After boiled,remove the rice to a wooden bowl and mix
sushi-su with a wooden spatula while fan cool. Cover with towel and set aside.
2) Prepare the cucumber, crabstick.
3) Beat the eggs into a bowl and mix it well, add soy sauce and sufficient amount of sugar. Fry the egg with medium heat. Flap the egg to a rectangular shape when the egg is not fully cooked so that
it will give a texture of nice tamago =) For better result, use a rectangular pan.
4) Prepare the salmon. Knife MUST be sharp and cutting motion only one time.
5) Roll the sushi. Varieties of different types of sushi like Maki sushi, Nigiri sushi, or California Roll. You
can add wasabi or mayonese inside the sushi before rolling, as you prefered! {You must learn how to roll
the sushi first of all!}
6) Serves 4 people with soy sauce, wasabi and mayonese.

Tempura
Ingredients
1) Flour, eggs and cold water
2) Seafood = Shrimps and Crab Stick
3) Vegetables = Potatoes, Onions, Asparagus, Brinjal or any others

Steps

1) Remove heads and shells from shrimps without removing tails. Devein the shrimps. Make two or three incisions in the stomach sides of the shrimps. Lightly press the back of shrimps by fingers.
2) Using a knife, remove the dirt from the tails of shrimps. Pat dry the shrimps.
3) Mix the batter.
4) Flour shrimps before frying. Pick the tail of shrimp and dip shrimp in the tempura batter.
5) Fry it till crispy. The duration of frying for seafood always lesser than vegetables. Potatoes soak into
water for 15 minutes before frying.
6) Serves hot !
Optional = You can use ready-made tempura batter at the market.

Yakitori Chicken
Ingredients
1) Teriyaki sauce @ Home-made Yakitori sauce*
2) Sugar
3) Bamboo Skewers
4) Spring onions @ Scallions
5) Chicken Cube

Steps

1) Cut the chicken into cubical shape and marinate it with teriyaki sauce@ yakitori sauce and sugar. Refrigerate it for 4-6 hours.
2) Soak the bamboo skewers into water for 30 minutes.
3) Skew the ingredients and chicken through the bamboo skewer.
4) You can use oven, pan or barbeque it.
Optional = Sesame Seed, Margerine, Butter or Honey.

* Yakitori Sauce = Sake (Rice Wine), Mirin(Sweet Rice Wine), soy sauce, sugar, grated ginger and bring to simmer.



Coming Next !
Tempura Ice-Cream