Feel Like Japanese Tonight
Posted June 28th, 2012 in Food No Comments »It’s sometimes hard to cook what I want to eat everyday. D is such a nice husband and likes to help me cooking dinner, but his choice of food is quite different from what I want,,, most of the time :-p He’s been into hash brown wrap with bacon and egg, and we had that for lunch today. Since I had time to cook today as Hiro had 2 naps during the day, I made some Japanese food for dinner. 😀
The mail dish is this ginger chicken (recipe) – I used chicken thigh and marinated in the sauce before grilling. It’s served on a bed of simmered cabbage which is also cooked in the teriyaki-style sauce.
This is one of my favourite dish – simmered hijiki seaweed with chicken and vegetables (recipe). It’s shame that you can’t get hijiki from shops in Perth as it’s not permitted to import commercially 🙁 You need to import by yourself from Japan! I still have 2 more packets which I brought from Japan in Feb this year.
It’s a typical nimono (simmered dish), but hijiki is great for your skin and hair and is very healthy. I made it with chicken, carrot, konnyaku and abura-age (deep-fried bean curd), but you can also add soy beans and/or snake beans.
This is pickled cabbage. It’s one of the dish my grandma used to make at home. It’s made with just cabbage and salt, but is a great companion to steamed rice 🙂
I will post recipes of these three dishes …
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