Rolled Chicken And Green Onions Toriniku Negi Maki Food

WAKAME AND TUNA WITH SOY DRESSING

Steps:

• Place wakame and 3 cups water in a large bowl; let soak 20 minutes. Heat remaining 3 cups water to simmering iun 2-qt, saucepan over medium-high heat. Add soaked wakame and simmer 30 seconds. Rinse under cold running water and drain well.
• Lay wakame out flat on work surface; cut away and discard any hard veins. Cut wakame strips into 1-inch lengths.
• Mix vinegar, soy sauce, sugar, and oil in a small bowl; stir to dissolve sugar, then reserve dressing.
• Place tuna in a medium-size bowl; break up with fork into bite-sized pieces. Sprinkle with lemon juice.
• Cut cucumber crosswise into 1/16-inch slices. Cut tomato into 3/4-inch cubes.
• Add prepared wakame, cucumber, and tomato to tuna; add dressing and toss lightly until thoroughly mixed. Transfer to a medium serving bowl or 4 individual bowls.

GINGER PORK SAUTE (BUTANIKU SHOGA-YAKI)

Steps:

• Cut pork crosswise into 1/8-inch thick slices. Cut slices into 2-inch piwces.
• REmove hard center sections from cabbage leaves, if necessary. Cut cabbage into 1-inch squares.
• Mix soy sauce, ginger juice, sake, and sugar in a small bowl, stirring until sugar dissolves.
• Heat 1 tablespoons oil in a 10-inch skillet over high heat. Add pork and saute, stirring constantly, until pork is half cooked, about 3 minutes. Remove pork from pan and reserve.
• Add remaining 1 tbsp oil to skillet. Add cabbage and saute, stirring constantly, until almost tender, 1 to 2 minutes. Return pork to skillet; add soy sauce mixtre. Cook, stirring occasionally, until pork has finished cooking, 2 to 3 minutees. Serve immediately.

DRAGON ROLL MAKI

Steps:

• 1. wash rice well, drain and let stand for 30 minutes in colander.
• 2. Cook rice in rice cooker or according to directions provided with the rice.
• 3. After about 45 minutes of cooking remove rice into a large mixing bowl then add Sushi Su seasoning mixing it well into the rice.
• 4. Periodically turn rice to allow for even cooking, do this for about 20 minutes.
• 5. Place Nori rough side up and cover with rice leaving small area uncovered at the end, press the rice down with damp hands to even the layer of rice.
• 6. Sprinkle rice with Sesame Seeks and flip Nori over so rice is face down.
• 7. Place bands of Unagi, Cucumber, Kaiware Sprouts along the bare end of the Nori.
• 8. Roll the sushi into a tight cylinder then once roll is sealed, compress the roll with the bamboo rolling mat.
• 9. Put slices of fresh Avocado on top of Roll and press lightly to ensure it stays on.
• 10. Slice the roll into desired size and drizzle with Unagi Sauce. Display on a plate with Pickled Ginger, Wasabi and Soy Sauce for dipping.

JAPANESE VEGETABLE SOUP WITH CHICKEN (KENCHIN-JIRU)

Steps:

• Scrape burdock root with the back of a knife to remove all skin. Shave root diagonally into narrow, thin shavings, about 1 inch long. Place shavings in a mixture of 1 cup of cold water and he vinegar. Soak 3-4 minutes; rinse under cold running water and drain.
• Cut potato lengthwise into quarters; cut quarters crosswise into thin slices. Place in remaining cup of cold water; soak five minutes. Drain.
• Cut daikon and carrot lengthwise into quarters; cut quarters crosswise into thin slices. Cut green onions crosswise into 1/2 inch lengths. Remove and discard mushroom stems. Cut caps into halves; cut halves crosswise into thin slices.
• Place tofu in strainer; using fork, break tofu into pieces no larger than 1/2 inch. Rinse and drain.
• Heat the oils in a 3-quart saucepan over high heat 1 minute; add chicken and saute, stirring constantly, until chicken is cooked, about 3 minutes.
• Add burdock, potato, daikon, and carrot to chicken. Saute, stirring constantly, 2 to 3 minutes.
• Add dashi, soy sauce, and salt to chicken mixture. Heat to boiling, then reduce heat to medium-high. Boil gently until vegetables are tender, about 5 minutes, skimming any foam, if needed.
• Stir mushrooms and tofu into soup; cook 2 minutes. Stir green onions into soup and remove from heat.
• Ladle soup into 4 soup bowls and serve immediately. Pass seven spice powder or sansho at table.

CLAM SALAD WITH MISO DRESSSING

Steps:

• Mix vinegar, 1 tbsp sake, miso, sugar, and soy sauce in a small bowl. Stir to dissolve sugar; reserve dressing.
• Cook clams: place clams and 1 Celsius water and remaining 1/2 tsp sake in a 2-qt saucepan; heat to boiling over medium-high heat, then reduce heat and simmer just until clams are cooked through, about 1 minute. Drain and cool completely.
• Cut green onions into 1-inch lengths. Heat remaining 2 cups water and the salt to boiling in a 2-qt saucepan over medium-high heat. Add white parts of onions and thicker green parts to pan; boil 1 minutes, then add green tops of onions and boil 1 minute longer. Drain and cool completely.
• Combine clams and onions in mwedium bowl; add dressing. Toss lightly until thoroughly mixed, then transfer to medium serving bowl orr four individual bowls.

JAPANESE BEEF AND RICE BOWL (GYUDON)

Steps:

• Cut beef into 1/8 inch thick slices.
• Cut slices into strips about 1 inch wide and 2 or 3 inches long.
• Cut green onions crosswise into 1 inch lengths.
• Reserve.
• Wash rice with cold water.
• Cook rice with 1/2 teaspoon salt and 2 3/4 cups of water.
• About 10 minutes before serving, heat remaining 1/4 cup water, the mirin and soy sauce to boiling over medium high heat.
• Add beef and boil until beef reaches desired doneness.
• Add green onions and boil 30 seconds.
• Remove from heat.
• Divide rice among 4 individual serving bowls.
• Place equal amounts of beef and onions over rice in each bowl.
• Ladle equal amounts of cooking liquid into each bowl.
• Serve immediately.
• Note: I sometimes add a litte ginger, garlic, pea pods, green beans (cooked), bamboo shoots or water chestnuts to the mix.

PORK AND MISO SOUP (BUTANIKU MISO-SHIRU)

Steps:

• Cut pork slices crosswise into 1/2-inch wide strips.
• Cut green onions crosswise into 1/2-inch lengths.
• Heat dashi to boiling in a 3-quart saucepan over medium-high heat. Add pork; cook 2 minutes. Mix some of the hot soup liquid into the miso and stir to dissolve. Add the onions and the dissolved miso to the pot, but do not boil after adding miso, just heat through. Ladle into 4 soup bowls. Stir 1/2 teaspoons ginger juice into each serving.

ROLLED CHICKEN AND GREEN ONIONS (TORINIKU NEGI-MAKI)

Steps:

• Pierce skin of each leg several times with a fork. Place chicken skin-side-down on work surface. Score thickest parts of meat with a sharp knife; press and spread lightly so the meat is of even thickness.
• Mix together ginger juice, 2 tablespoons sake, the sugar, and the soy sauce in a medium bowl. Add chicken, turning to coat evenly. Marinate 20 minutes, turning occasionally.
• Cut leek crosswise into 2-inch lengths; cut each piece lengthwise in half and then into needle-fine strips. Soak in the water 5 minutes; drain and reserve.
• Drain chicken, reserving marinade; place chicken skin-side-down on cutting board. Cut onions to the same length as long dimension of chicken pieces. Sift a light, even coating of cornstarch over onions and chicken.
• Place 3 or 4 otions along length of each chicken piece; roll each jelly-roll fashion around onions. Fasten each roll securely by wrapping with kitchen twine at 1/2-inch intervals.
• Heat oil in 10-inch skillet over medium heat. Add chicken rolls, seam-side-down. Cook, turning frequently with tongs, until light brown on all sides. Pour off excess fat.
• Add remaining 1/2 cup of sake to chicken. Reduce heat to medium-low; cook, covered, 7 minutes. Add reserved marinade and cook, covered, turning rolls occasionally, until chicken is tender, 10 to 12 minutes. Remove twine from rolls; cut crosswise into 1-inch thick slices. Spoon pan juices over slices. Serve with the shredded raw leek.