Try out these recipes to experience delicious cuisine of Japan!
Japanese Recipe – 45
Mabo Nasu
Mabo Nasu is originally from China but modified as Japanese meal. It is a dish using Egglant and Minced meat.
- 1 Egg plant
- 100g minced meat
- Pinch of Beni Shoga
- 100ml Yakiniku sauce
- 1 tablespoon corn flour
- 2 tablespoon water
- 2 teaspoon sesame oil
- 1. Cut eggplants into suitable size to eat, and soak in water, then drain water well.
- 2. Heat sesame oil in a pan, and stir fry the eggplant.
- 3. Add minced meat after the oil mix well with eggplants.
- 4. Add Yakiniku sauce and boil down a little, add chopped spring onions in.
- 5. Mix corn flour and water, and add slowly to thicken the sauce.
- 6. Sprinkle Beni Shoga on top and serve.
Beni Shoga (red ginger)
Beni Shoga is ginger pickled in plum vinegar. It is a classic garnish for many Japanese dishes. It goes particularly well with the sweetness of sauces and seasoning of dishes.
Yakiniku Sauce
Yakiniku sauce is a sweet & flavourful Japanese BBQ sauce. It’s perfect for dipping thinly sliced of well marbled short rib and other grilled dishes.
Tokubetsu Junmai-shu Hiyaoroshi Urakasumi is ideal for “Mabo Nasu”
Tokubetsu Junmai-shu Hiyaoroshi Urakasumi
Perfectly matured over summer and released in autumn. Hiyaoroshi is “ flavours of the fall” and rich in flavour. Polished ratio is at 60% giving clean smooth taste with the rice. With matching with Mabo Nash the flavours of the sauces from the Yakiniku sauce and eggplant texture allows the season of summer to come alive.
Sandra Advice!
Who doesn’t love minced meat with eggplants? It has a nice juicy texture and the Yakiniku sauce blends well with the vegetables making it a very enjoyable dish.
Japanese Recipe – 46
Aonori Tamagoyaki
Tamagoyaki is a type of Japanese omelette, which is made by rolling together several layers of cooked egg. Aonori omelette is seaweed powder added to the egg when it is cooked.
- 2 Egg
- 1 tablespoon Dash stock
- 1 tablespoon Japanese cooking Sake
- 1 tablespoon Aonori
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- 1 teaspoon soya sauce
- 1 teaspoon Mirin
- A pinch of salt
- 1 tablespoon Oil
- 1. Beat eggs and mix the condiments well. Add Aonori in.
- 2. Heat the frying pan. Spread the oil with kitchen paper or tissue.
- 3. Add 1/3 of the egg, roll it by turning from the side. Slide the part already being rolled at the corner. If the oil is not enough, wipe with oiled tissue again.
- 4. Add in another 1/3 of egg, and continue to roll. Slide the part at the corner. Repeat the rest in a same way.
- 5. Off the cooker but leave it a while to set. Not to move it immediately because it is very soft.
- 6. Cut into pieces and place on a plate.
Japanese Cooking Sake
Japanese cooking Sake is a type of Sake made especially for cooking. This Sake can be used as a key flavouring to a dish. With its strong characteristic that can intensify and accent the flavour of food, Sake, when paired with simple seasonings, is wonderful for various dishes.
Aonori
Aonori is a type of edible green seaweed used for flavouring of some Japanese foods, usually by sprinkling the powder on the hot food, for its aroma.
Hakkaisan Tokubetsu Junmai is ideal for “Aonori Tamagoyaki”
Hakkaisan Tokubetsu Junmai
Special pure rice Sake from Niigata prefecture polished ratio at 60%. This Sake is pure and clean like with sweet soft aftertaste goes perfectly with Anori Tamagoyaki.
Sandra Advice!
Aonori is seaweed powder and is also used for Okonomiyaki as garnish. Aonori is the perfect garnish because it can make a simple omelette much tastier.
Sponsored by: Sandra Gwee – Sake Specialist
Manager of Lion Oriental Foods Co. and Loi’s Eastern Supermart
“For 2018 was Perth Sake Festival hosted in Lion Oriental Food Co., we couldn’t even imagine the support and interest for Japanese Sake and plum wines from our locals. Crowd was huge which led to a queue of people waiting to sample our beautiful collection of Sake, plum wines and not to mention our local cheese from the Swan Valley. It definitely was a great event to bring the Sake world, Perth and cheese together.”
Japanese groceries are available at Lion Oriental Foods Co. and Loi’s Eastern Supermart.
Lion Oriental Foods Co.
Tel：08 9228 9898
Add：13 Fitzgerald St. Northbridge WA 6003
HP：www.lion-oriental.com
Friday & Saturday opens till 8pm!
Retailing largest range of Japanese food pioneer in WA.
Loi’s Eastern Supermart
Tel：08 9221 1001
Add：125 Barrack St. Perth WA 6000
HP：www.lion-oriental.com