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Egg Plant and Beef with Sweet and Sour Sauce 08/13/2010

“Nasu” is the Japanese word for eggplant, and “gyuniku” is beef. “Amazu” means sweet vinegar sauce. Japanese eggplant is smaller than western eggplant, but you can use either kind for this recipe.

Japanese: nasu to gyuniku no amazu itame

Yield: 2 servings

Time: 20 minutes

Ingredients

0.6 lb eggplant (1/4 inch slices)
1/2 lb beef (1/4 inch slices)
4 mushrooms (sliced)
1/2 cup green onion (chopped)

Spices (for beef)

1/2 tsp sugar
1tsp soy sauce
1 tsp sake

Spices (for sauce)

1 tbsp sugar
1 tbsp soy sauce
1 tbsp vinegar

Spices (for eggplant)

1 tbsp flour

Preparation

Place in a bowl, add spices for beef (sugar. soy sauce and sake), and mix
Put eggplant in a bowl and sprinkle flour
Mix spices for sauce in a small bowl (soy sauce, sugar, vinegar)
Heat oil in a frying pan and stirfry beef for 2 minutes on high heat
Add eggplant and mushroom, stir for 3 minutes over medium heat
Adjust heat to low and add mixed spices untill sauce is fully absorbed
Serve and enjoy!

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Mochi Cheese Okonomiyaki 07/29/2010

The combination of cheese and mochi (rice cake) gives the okonomiyaki a gooey texture, kind of like a cheese pizza. It’s fun to make a variety of okonomiyaki for parties.

Also check out my recipe for Kansai style okonomiyaki.

Yield: 2 servings

Time: 20 minutes

Ingredients

1.5 cups okonomiyaki powder
1 1/4 cups water
1 beaten egg
1/4 lb sliced beef
3 cups sliced cabbage
1 cup shredded cheese
2 mochi (rice cake, about 2oz, chopped)
1/2 cup bonito (optional)

Spices

4 tsp okonomiyaki sauce
2 tsp Japanese mayonnaise, such as Kewpie

Preparation

Mix okonomiyaki powder with water in a bowl until smooth
Mix in egg, cabbage, mochi and cheese in a bowl
Heat oil in large frying pan then pour in the batter (like a big pancake), but leave some room around the edge to grill the beef (see picture).
Add beef around the edge and cook cake and meat for 3 minutes
Put the beef on top of the cake, flip the cake, and cook for another 3 minutes.
Spread on okonomiyaki sauce and mayonnaise, then sprinkle on some bonito (if desired)

Modifications

If you don’t have okonomiyaki sauce you can use oyster sauce, ketchup, soy sauce, and mayonnaise, 1 tsp each
You may substitute beef with shrimp, pork, or squid

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Beef Fried Rice 04/19/2010

Fried rice is typically very easy to make but a little hard to make it taste great. But the more you make it, the better it gets! Beef and pickled ginger is my favorite fried rice combination, but if you don’t like or cannot find pickled ginger, try regular pickles. It may sound strange but tastes great!

Yield: 2 servings

Time: 10 minutes

Ingredients

3/4 lb sliced, chopped beef
2 bowls of steamed rice (about 2 cups)
1/2 onion (chopped)
1/4 cup chopped green onion
1/2 oz pickled ginger (minced)
Some pickled ginger on the side
1 egg (beaten)

Spices

1 tbsp soy sauce
1 tbsp mirin
1 tbsp sake
dash salt and pepper

Preparation

Heat oil in a frying pan, cook beef for 30 seconds over medium heat
Add onion and green onion, and cook 2 minutes over medium heat
Add egg, mix, then add rice and ginger. Cook for 2 minutes (turning rice to keep it separated)
Add mirin, sake, soy sauce, and stir for 1 minute then sprinkle salt and pepper
Serve and enjoy!

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Cabbage Rolls with Bacon 04/18/2010

This is a very popular home cooking meal. It has been in Japan for over a hundred years and many families have their own custom version of this recipe. Enjoy!!

Yield: 8 rolls

Time: 45 minutes

Ingredients

8 big leaves of cabbage
10 oz ground beef
1 onion (chopped)
1 egg (beaten)
1 tbsp panko
4 bacon (cut in half)
4 dry spaghetti (to hold rolls together)

Spices (for meat)

1 tbsp milk (mix with panko)
1 tbsp ketchup
dash of salt and pepper
dash nutmeg

Spices (for sauce)

1 can of chopped tomatoes
1/4 cup red wine
1 beer bullion cube
2 tbsp ketchup
1 tbsp soy sauce

Preparation

Boil cabbage leaves until soft, then slice off the hard white core, chop, and set aside.
Heat oil in a frying pan and fry onion until golden brown.
Remove onion and set aside. Mix ground beef with onion, chopped cabbage core, panko/milk mixture, and ketchup, then knead.
Sprinkle nutmeg, salt, and pepper
Divide meat into eight equal parts
Roll meat into cabbage leaves (see pictures) and cover with bacon. Spear with spaghetti to hold the roll together
Put rolls in a sauce pan, add 1 cup water, bullion cube, tomatoes, soy sauce, and ketchup and cook over medium-high.
When the sauce boils, add red wine. Reduce heat to low and cook for 20 minutes
Serve and enjoy!

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Bulgogi 04/04/2010

Bulgogi is Korean style stir-fried beef. It is a staple at Korean restaurants all over the world. It’s best served with steamed rice, but would also be good wrapped with lettuce.

Yield: 4 servings

Time: 15 minutes

Ingredients

3/4 lb sliced beef
3 oz sliced carrots
1 onion (sliced)
2 shiitake mushrooms
1 green pepper (chopped)
1/4 cup green onions (chopped)

Spices

2 tbsp sake
1 tbsp gochujang
4 tbsp soy sauce
2 tbsp ground sesame
1 tbsp sugar
1 tbs mirin
1 tbs ground garlic
1 tsp sesame oil

Preparation

Put spices and green onion in a big bowl and mix with beef, then add remaining vegetables.
Heat a frying pan over medium heat, add mixture, and cook for 7 to 10 minutes until cooked.

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Miso Steak 03/15/2010

You can find many varieties of steak in Japan. At Japanese-style steakhouses we eat with chopsticks, so when the meal comes, the beef is already cut into bite sizes! Miso is delicious with beef, so please give it a shot when you want to try something different.

Yield: 2 servings

Time: 15 minutes

Ingredients

2 steaks
1/4 cup green onion (chopped)
1/2 tbsp butter
1 tbsp miso paste mixed with 2 tbsp water
Salt & pepper

Preparation

Tenderize steak and sprinkle salt and pepper both sides
Heat oil in a frying pan and cook steak for 2 minutes on each side
Transfer steak to a cutting board and cut into bite sizes
Add butter to the pan, add miso/water mixture, and stir for 30 seconds
Return the steak to the pan and cook for 30-60 seconds (skip if you like your steak rare)
Serve with the miso sauce, and enjoy!

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Niku Dofu 03/13/2010

Nikudofu is a popular dish in Japanese homes. The taste is similar to sukiyaki, but it is much easier to make, so you can whip it together if you’re busy or just feeling lazy!

Yield: 4 servings

Time: 25 minutes

Ingredients

1/2 lb sliced beef
10 oz tofu (cut into cubes)
1/2 onion (cut lengthwise)
1/2 shironegi (chopped)
7 oz ito konnyaku noodles

Spices

1 cup dashi soup (1 tsp dashi powder & 1 cup water)
3 tbsp soy sauce
1/4 cup sake
2 tbsp mirin
2 tbsp sugar

Preparation

Heat medium saucepan and cook shironegi for 30 seconds
Add beef and onions and cook, while stirring, for 4 minutes
Add dashi soup and sake.
When mixture boils, add tofu, creating a wall between the beef and the other half of the pan (ito konnyaku can make the meat a little tough), then add ito konnyaku to the empty side (see picture)
Add mirin and sugar, cover, and cook for 10 minutes on medium low, checking up on it occasionally to make sure it doesn’t burn.
Serve and enjoy!

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Garlic Beef 01/26/2010

Nira (chives), garlic, and beef taste very good together! Many Japanese believe that garlic gives you strength, so I prefer to make this recipe if I’m feeling tired! It is good with steamed rice and also I like to eat it wrapped in lettuce with some chili sauce.

Yield: 2 servings

Time: 15 minutes

Ingredients

1/2 lb sliced beef (sukiyaki beef, chopped into 3″ pieces)
1/4 lb chives (chopped into 2″ pieces)
1/4 lb bean sprouts
1 shironegi (thick green onion, or regular green onion if you can’t find it)
2 cloves of garlic (sliced thin)
1 clove of garlic (minced)

Spices

2 tbps soy sauce
2 tbsp sake
2 tbsp mirin
2 tsp chicken soup powder
dash salt and pepper
ground sesame (optional)

Preparation

Mix spices (soy sauce, sake, mirin, chicken powder and ground garlic) in a bowl
Heat the oil and sliced garlic in a frying pan then cook green onion for 2 minutes over medium heat. Add beef, sprinkle salt and pepper, then transfer beef to a dish when it is cooked through
Add nira, bean sprouts, and mixed spice in a frying pan. Cook for 3 minutes over medium heat
Return beef to the pan, mix and cook for an additional 1 minute
Serve with sprinkled ground sesame (optional)

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Sweet & Sour Meatballs 12/03/2009

Japanese: Nikudango.
This is a popular recipe for bento boxes (lunch boxes), and it is even very popular at many Chinese restaurants in Japan.

Yield: 2 servings

Time: 15 minutes

Ingredients

1lb ground beef
1 egg (beaten)
15g ginger (grated)
1 clove garlic (grated)

Spices (for beef)

2 tsp soy sauce
2 tsp sake
1 tsp katakuriko
dash salt and pepper

Spices (for sauce)

1 tsp soy sauce
2 tbsp sugar
3 tbsp vinegar
3 tbsp ketchup
1 tsp katakuriko

Preparation

Mix beef with egg, ginger, garlic, soy sauce, sake, katakuriko, salt, pepper and knead well by hand
Make meatballs roughly the size of golf balls
Heat oil to 375°F (190°C) and fry meatballs for about 7 minutes (until cooked through), remove them from the pan and wipe oil with a paper towel
Mix sauce spices in a small bowl (soy sauce, sugar, vinegar, ketchup) and heat it in a frying pan
Add katakuriko (with water), mix then add meatballs
Serve and enjoy!

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Stir-fried Beef with Cucumber 11/17/2009

This one is a little different, because we don’t usually use cucumber in stir-fry, but the Chinese chef I used to work for used to make it for us special, and it tastes really good. Please give it a shot and comment if you like it (or not!).

Yield: 2 servings

Time: 15 minutes

Ingredients

1/4 lb sliced beef
4 mini (Japanese style) cucumbers
1 clove garlic

Spices

1 tbsp sake
2 tbsp oyster sauce
1 tbsp soy sauce
dash salt and pepper
1 tsp katakuriko (or corn starch)

Preparation

Sprinkle salt and pepper on the beef and mix with katakuriko
Heat oil in a frying pan, grill garlic for 30 sec then add beef
When the beef is cooked, add sake and cucumbers then cook for 3 minutes over medium heat
Add oyster and soy sauce and cook for 1 minute

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