Cooking and Typical Meals

 

Types of cooking style (steam, stir-fried, baked etc.)

DAILY PARTTEN	MENU	TYPES OF COOKING STYLE	TYPES OF TYPICAL MENUS
Breakfast	Soup Miso	Boiling	Rice
Lunch	Bento box	Stir-fried	Rice
Snack	Onigiri	Grilled	Rice
Dinner	Soba and Udon	Boiling	Noodle
Supper	Chicken Teriyaki	Grilled	Meat

 

Breakfast : Soup Miso

Miso soup uses the boiling cooking style. The way to cook Miso soup is to boil water in a pot with mushrooms and dashi, or you can also add white carrots, namely daikon. When the boiling water has boiled, reduce the heat until the soup stops boiling and add the dried wakame and soft tofu. Make sure the water does not boil when the Miso paste is added. This is because Miso has the good bacteria for health and if the water is too hot, it will kill those bacteria. After placing the Miso paste in the ladle, gently add it to the soup and mash the Miso paste using the back of the ladle so that it dissolves into the soup. When all the paste has dissolved in the soup, lift and serve immediately in a desirable state. Put it in a bowl and sprinkle with chopped onions before enjoying it, just like that, or with rice for breakfast.

Lunch : Bento boxes

Lunch boxes have a variety of ways to prepare, one of cooking style is stir-fired. Heat the oil over medium heat and add the garlic, ginger and onion until fragrant. Then add the pumpkin and stir until the pumpkin is tender for 3 minutes. Next, add the brown rice and horse peas and stir for a minute before adding the salted soy sauce, tyrant sauce, and white pepper. If you like of vegetables, add bak choy vegetables and stir until soft. After stirring well, sprinkle scallions and sesame seeds as garnish. Prepare a food box and shape the fried rice according to creativity.

Snack : Onigiri

Onigiri is the simplest Japanese snack using grilled cooking style. How to prepare Origina. First, cook Sumo Rice as usual and put all the miso paste ingredients into a bowl and mix until smooth. Then, divide the cooked rice into six parts. Shape and squeeze the divided rice into the Saran package into a triangle. When done, heat the pan over medium heat and add a teaspoon of butter for each of the Onigiri rice balls that have been formed earlier. Bake the pre-formed Onigiri for 1-2 minutes on each side and coat with butter. Rub the miso paste on each side of the Onigiri and re-roast until crisp and ready to serve as a snack.

Dinner : Soba and Udon

Soba and Udon are foods that Japanese people eat for dinner. The method of preparation is boiling cooking style. Boil kondu with water until bubbling and until the kombu expands if using dry kondu. But, if there is no kombu, it can be replaced with wakame. After the konbu is fluffy, remove it and add the dashi powder and stir until well combined. After everything is well blended, add the shoyu and sugar and let it boil and you can turn off the heat. Then, set aside the kondu that has been prepared earlier and prepare boiling water to boil dried udon. Meanwhile, fry the tempura shrimp, chikuwa and thinly sliced negi. After everything is done, the way to combine all the food is to put the udon in a container, pour two tablespoons of udon soup, arrange the shrimp and shikuwa tempura. Finally, sprinkle with negi and also seaweed and ready to serve.

Supper : Chicken Teriyaki

Chicken teriyaki is a suitable food for supper, and it uses grilled cooking style. Clean the chicken breast and slice lengthwise at approximately 1/2cm thick. Put the sliced chicken breast in a bowl and mix the chicken breast with melted soy sauce, vinegar, grated ginger, sesame oil and sugar. Marinate the finished chicken in the mixture for 15-30 minutes. After that, heat a little oil in a pan and arrange the chicken breasts in the pan. Set aside the marinade sauce as it will be cooked later. Let the chicken cook on the bottom with a little grill mark, then remove. Once the chicken is cooked, turn it over. In that pan, bring the marinade sauce to a boil and slightly thickened. Add a little water if the sauce is too dry and, after cooking, pour the sauce over the chicken. Sprinkle with sesame seeds, scallions, and chilies as garnish. Finally, ready to serve.

Types of typical menus (rice, noodles, bread, gravy etc.)

Typical Asian meals will always have rice or noodles as their basic foods and so the Japanese. Japan also famous with various type of food as the main menu and there are also numbers of street foods that were famous around the world and really delicious. For example, Japanese would like to eat Miso Soup for the breakfast, and Bento Box during lunch.

During breakfast, Japanese would like to eat Miso Soup with steamed rice with other side dishes with protein like Salmon fish, pickles and others. Most of Japanese people would like to eat this menu during breakfast. As for lunch, Japanese is famous with their Bento Box which contain rice as the main food that come with other dishes like protein and vegetables.

Next, Japanese also famous with various types of Onigiri that based with Japanese rice and seaweed. Onigiri is Japanese favorite snack which filled with tuna, chicken or salmon and come with various type of sauce in it. Onigiri also have unique shape which they shaped the rice into triangle and wrapped with seaweed.

Sushi is so famous worldwide because it is accompanied with variety ingredients like raw salmon, octopus, eel (unagi), fish egg (tobiko) and more. Apart from udon (wheat noodles) or soba (buckwheat noodles), Japanese also would like to eat sushi for dinner. Sushi is a traditional Japanese dishes which it made of vinegared rice and usually come with some sugar and salt. The presentation of the food was so attractive and colorful which always made people become drooling to eat Sushi.

Lastly, during supper, Japanese would like to eat something lighter like chicken teriyaki. Chicken teriyaki is a food that use chicken thighs which stir-fried or grilled and drizzled with savory and sweet teriyaki sauce. The crispy skin of chicken teriyaki always wins the heart of Japanese. Teriyaki sauce was made from the combination of Japanese soy sauce, a bit of sugar and mirin or Japanese sweet rice wine. Japanese would like to eat only the chicken teriyaki itself or eat it with rice.