When pureed soybeans are filtered in the production of soy milk, the resulting pulp is called okara. This side dish is also called “unohana” but “okara” is more common. The okara is great for your health, especially for women. Okara has lots of fiber, lecithin, saponins, and isoflavones, many of which are great anti-aging nutrients, and they make your skin look fresh and clean.
Yield: 4 servings
Time: 20 minutes
Ingredients
- 3/4 lb Okara
- 2 dried shiitake mushrooms
- 1/3 cup chopped carrots
- 1/3 cup chopped konnyaku
- 1/4 cup green onion
Spices
- 2.5 tbsp sugar
- 2 tbsp soy sauce
- 1.5 cup shitake water (rehydrate dried shitake in a bowl of water and retain)
- 2 tbsp sake
- 1 tbsp mirin
- dash salt
Preparation
- Mix shitake water, soy sauce, sake, mirin, and sugar in a small bowl
- Heat oil in a frying pan and stir-fry carrot, konnyaku and shitake mushroom for three minutes
- Add okara and stir for 5 minutes
- Add mixed spices and stir until water evaporates
- Add salt
- Add green onion, and serve
- (Okara is delicious served warm or cold)
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Hello to all those looking for okara: it is what is left over when you make soymilk. Get a good recipe for soymilk and save the leftovers. Make sure you know that unless you have a machine, the okara will be raw, so you need to cook it. You can look it up.
No I’m in the U.S. I have a couple of japanese markets here but don’t know where to find it in the store. Would it be refrigerated or dry? I know I could ask but for some reason I feel shy. I guess I’ll have to get over that! LOL. Thanks for the recipe, though.
Are you in Japan? Usually big grocery store has okara and also a tofu shop (toufu ya).
Where in the japanese grocery can I find okara. I have looked and looked but cannot find. Do you know?
This looks very おいしい、I been waiting for this recipe, I definitely have to make this.
ありがとう舞さん
Thanks! This sounds like an interesting dish and I want to try it-but I don’t think I have seen okara in oriental markets in the US. Is it frozen, canned, vacuum packed, or what? Thank you :)
I love okara but can’t find it where I live now. Do you know of a place online where I can buy it dried?