I hope you
are not over my current obsession with Japanese flavours. I encourage you to give it a go. If you haven't tried them before you might be
surprised how easy and tasty the dishes (so long as you have 3-4 basic Japanese
ingredients like mirin, soy sauce and sake).
Ingredients:
Ham –
leftover sliced
Tiny bit of
chorizo finely chopped
Tofu – firm
Ginger
Noodles
(fresh)
Soy
Vegetable
oil
For the sauce:
1/3 cup
miso
1 egg yolk
2 tblsp
sake
2 tblsp
mirin
3 tblsp
dashi stock
Grated
ginger
Method:
Take the
tofu out of the packet and leave to drain on some kitchen paper with something
heavy on top.
Cut the
tofu when it has drained into squares.
Fry the
tofu in the oil until it is a bit browned.
Put to one side.
Then fry
the batons of ginger, ham and chorizo – add the noodles now if they are fresh. After a minute or 3 add some soy sauce to
taste – not too much because both the ham and the chorizo will add salty
flavour.
While the
noodles etc are cooking make your miso sauce.
See below.
Add back
the tofu and serve with the sauce poured over the top. Initially I tried to be fancy and just glaze
the tofu but I didn't think that gave enough depth of flavour.
Miso sauce:
Miso is not
good if it is boiled so this sauce is done as a double boiler – I just put one
saucepan on top of another which has a bit of boiling water in the bottom.
Gently warm
all the sauce ingredients. To make up
the miso stock either use an instant sachet or dissolve a spoonful of miso
paste in some water. Add your grated
ginger towards the end. And then add
your dashi very gradually. The sauce
should be thick and glossy.
Verdict – very tasty and quick.
Sounds pretty good. Do you also eat out at Japanese restaurants?
ReplyDeleteI have never quite developed a taste for Japanese food especially miso-I do love Vietnamese food!
ReplyDeleteI could never get tired of Japanese food!
ReplyDeleteMy son enjoys Japanese food.
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