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Tsukemen

Serves 2

INGREDIENTS
Meat
100g Pork Belly Slices
1 Thumb Ginger Root – Lightly Crushed
Pinch Red Chilli rings (or chilli flakes) – add more if you like it hot.
1 Clove Garlic – Lightly Crushed
1 Jumbo Spring Onion – Green Part

Broth
400ml Chinese Style Chicken Broth (1/2 TBSP granules to 400ml water)
2 TBSP Sake
1 White part Spring Onion (Jumbo, cut diagonally)
2 TBSP Soy Sauce
40g Shiitake Mushrooms
40g Shimeji Mushrooms
1 TSP Vinegar
1/2 TSP Sesame Oil

Toppings
2 Eggs – Soft Boiled
Handful of spring onion leaves
Dollop of Grated Garlic

2 Bags of Ramen Noodles

INSTRUCTIONS

1. Stir fry the pork slices in a pan until they release some fat and stir in the chillis.

2. After stir frying for a few minutes add in the sake and stock along with the green part of the spring onion, garlic and ginger – bring to the boil. Skim off any foam to clarify the broth.

3. Once boiling lower to a simmer for 10 mintutes.

4. This is good time to boil your egg. I boil mine for 6 minutes if they are room temp to start. I over cooked in this one, oops.

5. Remove the green spring onion leaves, ginger and garlic and add the soy and white part of spring onion, continue to simmer.

6. Once the white spring onion has wilted taste the broth and add pepper to taste.

7. Add in sesame oil and vinegar.

8. Boil your ramen as per instructions, mine only takes 3 minutes, rinse in cold water to remove the goo and squeeze out any water without crushing it. Place on a bamboo mat to drain.

9. Serve the tsukemen in a small bowl next to your ramen noodles and egg.

10. Garnish with chopped spring onion leaves, grated garlic, bonito flakes or chilli oil.

Source: Cooking With Dog.

Tsukemen - Anonymous Cookery 2015
Tsukemen – Anonymous Cookery 2015

Kakuni

Serves 2

INGREDIENTS
Meat
500g Pork Belly
30g Ginger Root
1 Jumbo Spring Onion – Green Part

Broth
100 ml Sake
450ml Warm Water
1 Piece of 5cm x 5cm Kombu
2 TBSP Brown Sugar
2 1/2 Soy Sauce
1 TBSP Hon Mirin

Toppings
2 Eggs – Soft Boiled
100g Green Beans
1 Dollop of Karashi

INSTRUCTIONS

1. Fry all sides of pork belly in a non-stick pan till golden brown.

2. Remove from pot and place in clean pot or slow cooker.

3. Add half the ginger and green part of the jumbo spring onion and cover with warm water.

4. Simmer or slow cook for at least 2 – 3 hours. 8 hours is best.

5. Remove pork from slow cooker and rinse of any fat and pat dry with paper towel.

6. Put on rice if using.

7. Replace pork back into a small clean pot and add sake, warm water and kombu.

8. On medium heat bring to a simmer and use drop lid to keep meat under the water for 20 minutes.

Eggs

1. Place room temp eggs in a pot of water of boiling water, boil for 6 minutes and let cool in cold water then peel.

2. Add 1/3 of sugar and soy to pot and stir. Replace drop lid and let boil down for a few minutes.

3. Repeat previous process, 1/3 sugar and soy.

4. Add remaining soy and sugar.

5. Add mirin and gently spoon over the pork.

6. Move the pork asside in pot and add in the eggs to soak some broth.

7. Boil green beans for 6 minutes.

8. Place the pork in serving dish and place the drained green beans in the broth to warm through.

9. Cut eggs in half and place on serving dish.

10. Place green beans next to pork and pour broth over the meat.

11. Garnish with karashi (Japanese mustard) and the shredded white part of the spring onion.

Source: Cooking With Dog.

Kakuni - Anonmous Cookery 2014
Kakuni – Anonmous Cookery 2014
Kakuni - Anonmous Cookery 2014
Kakuni – Anonmous Cookery 2014
Kakuni - Anonmous Cookery 2014
Kakuni – Anonmous Cookery 2014

Yaki Gyoza (Pork and Onion Gyoza)

Yields approx 25 Gyoza

INGREDIENTS
Main filling
120g Pork – Minced
100g Cabbage – finely chopped
50g Onion – finely chopped
50g Nira (Garlic Chives) – finely chopped.

Seasonings
1/2 TBSP Soy
1/2 TBSP Sugar
1 Pinch Pepper
1 TBSP Sake
1/2 TBSP Sesame Oil
1 TBSP Potato Starch (or Cornstarch)
1 TSP Garlic – Grated
1/2 TSP Ginger – Grated
1 TBSP Oyster Sauce

Skins
25 Gyoza Skins – You can make own but this is easier.
Flour for dusting.
1 TBSP Sesame Oil

INSTRUCTIONS
1. Mix pork in a large bowl till gooey – using your hands.

2. Add in all the seasonings (soy, sugar, pepper, sake, sesame oil, potato starch, garlic, ginger and oyster sauce). And kneed well into the pork.

3. Add the cabbage, onion and nira and mix through gently.

4. Cover bowl with cling film and sit in fridge for 30 mins to marinate the juices.

5. While waiting, dust flour onto a baking sheet.

6. Once pork has marinated spoon out approx 1 TBSP onto a gyoza skin. Wet the out part of the skin to help it seal.

7. Pull one side of skin over to the other to produce a semi circle and begin to gather one side of the skin into pleats, sealing it well into the opposite side. Place completed gyoza on the floured baking sheet.

8. Heat sesame oil in a large lidded pan on medium heat.

9. When hot enough place half the gyoza in the pan, make sure not to crowd the pan too much.

10. Pour in boiling water till it covers half way up the gyoza and place lid.

11. Steam for approx 5/6 mins or until the water has mostly evaporated.

12. When the water has evaporated, drizzle sesame oil between the gyozas in the pan and replace the lid.

13. Cook for another 2/3 mins until they sizzle.

14. Serve them crispy side up.

NOTES
This recipe goes great with Gyoza Dipping Sauce!

Gyoza Dipping Sauce - Anonymous Cookery 2014
Gyoza Dipping Sauce – Anonymous Cookery 2014

Katsudon (Pork Tonkatsu Donburi)

Serves 2

INGREDIENTS
Topping
140 g Onions – Sliced into Strips and halved
2 Eggs
Pinch Parsley – Chopped

Meat
2 Pork Loins – Poked full of holes and fatty part cut into
1 Pinch Salt and Pepper
4 TBSP Plain Flour
1 Egg
1 Dash Water
6 TBSP Panko
Oil for frying – 170oC

Broth

100 ml Water
1/2 TSP Dashi Stock Powder
2 TBSP Soy Sauce
2 TBSP Mirin
2 TSP Sugar

Rice

1 1/2 Cups Thai Rice – New Crop
1 3/4 Cups Water

INSTRUCTIONS
1. Put rice in rice cooker if using.

2. Salt and pepper one side of pork and dust with flour add the dash water to the beaten egg.  Coat the pork in the egg.

3. Coat pork in panko crumbs. Double dip in egg and panko for double crispiness.

4. Fry pork in fryer for 2 minutes each side or until golden brown. For extra thick pork loins add a few minutes each side. Drain the oil.

5. Mix water, soy, mirin, and dashi to pan on medium heat and add sugar.

6. Add onions when sugar is dissolves and cover till it boils. Leave to boil for 3 minutes.

7. Chop pork loins into 1 inch strips and gently place on top of sauce in pan.

8. Turn up heat to high and pour over the slightly beaten egg and cover till egg at desired consistency. Top with parsley.

9. Serve on top of bowl with rice.

NOTES
This is my favourite dish along with Kakuni, could live on these!

You can also substitute pork for chicken and make Oyakodon topping it with spring onions.  Or beef strips instead and make Gyūdon.  This works well topped with beni shōga (pickled ginger).

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Stuffed Tofu Puffs

Yields 25 Puffs

INGREDIENTS
Filling
100g Pork – Minced
25 Raw Prawns – Minced
2 Pinches Salt
2 Pinches Umami
1 TSP Fish Sauce
1 Pinch Sugar
1 Pinch Pepper

1 Pack Fried Tofu Puffs (approx 25)

INSTRUCTIONS
1. Mix all filling ingredients together

2. Makes shallow cuts into the puffs cross wise and use your finger to create a hollow.

3. Stuff around a TBSP of mixture into each puff. The amount can vary depends on size of the puff.

4. Shallow-fry for 10 mins, approx 5 mins each side till golden brown.

5. Optionally serve with Nước Mắm Pha – Nem sauce drizzled on top or with steamed rice as a meal.

NOTES
Tofu puffs are great in soups like Tom Yum and Laksa.

Nem Rán Vietnamese Fried Spring Roll

INGREDIENTS
300g Minced Pork
100g Raw Prawns – minced
300g Beansprouts – tops removed
1 small can Crab Meat
1 Onion – minced
1 Carrot – matchsticked
1 TSP Salt
1/2 TSP Pepper
I TSP Umami
1 Egg Yolk
30g Rice Vermcelli
1 pack of Bánh Tráng (Rice paper)

INSTRUCTIONS
1. Mix all ingredients together bar rice paper.

2. Rice paper prep
Put 1/3 litre of hot water in a bowl with the sugar.
Brush the water on both sides of paper and let sit for few minutes to soften on damp towel.

3. Rolling the Nem
Use approx 1/2 TSP of mixture and place in centre, slightly up on rice paper.
Pull in sides and the then roll to seal.

COOKING
4. Fry Nem at 180°C for 5 mins or till browned

NOTES
Try dipping the Nem into Nước Mắm Pha!

Nem Sauce (Nước Mắm Pha) - Anonymous Cookery 2014
Nem Sauce (Nước Mắm Pha) – Anonymous Cookery 2014

 

I personally enjoy this these cut up into 1″ chunks on steamed rice covered in the Nước Mắm Pha.  It’s probably like how a child would eat it but it’s tasty all the same.

Huang He Fried Rice

Serves 2

INGREDIENTS
Filling
1 Pork Loin
1 Onion – Diced
1 Garlic Clove – Crushed
1/8 Cup Frozen Peas
2 Mushrooms – Diced
1 Egg
1 TBSP Oil
1 TBSP Soy Sauce

1 1/2 Cups cooked old Rice (3/4 cup Rice and 160ml Water)
I use Green Dragon Thai Rice – New Crop.

Topping
1 Pinch crispy fried shallots/onions

INSTRUCTIONS
1. If rice is fresh put in freezer for 20 mins to ensure it’s cold.

2. Heat oil on high heat and fry both sides of Pork Loin until half cooked and set aside to cool.

3. Once pork is cooler cut into bite-size chunks and add back tot he pan with the onions and fry until onions have caramelised.

4. Add garlic and mushrooms and stir till aromatic.

5. Add rice and peas, crumbling it in as you go and stir till rice is coated

6. Move the rice aside and crack in and egg and scrambled until egg is 75% cooked.

7. Stir through the eggs with the rice.

8. Add in soy.

9. Serve with fried onions as a topping.

Source: Sue Lau