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[Recipe] Make Delicious Indian-Inspired Chicken Curry At Home!

Do you like curry? I have to admit, curry rice is my favorite food of all time and its one of few cooking that I can eat at any time of day on any season. I can eat curry everyday. My wife thinks I’m crazy.

Today, I’d like to share some amazing recipe that I have stumbled upon on Japanese website that changed my homemade curry game FOREVER. Since the original website is all in Japanese, I figured it will be good idea to share the recipe in English as I go through the cooking. This is recipe you do not want to miss.

This recipe has two important key words. Speed and stir. No matter what, do not stop stirring the pot as it will cause the ingredients to burn and it will end in bad results e.g., burnt stock pot and smoke alarm beats your eardrums to deaf. Always keep your eyes on the pot and stir. stir. stir. non-stop. Ok?

Please note my recipe calls for 8 servings because I am lazy this curry is absolutely delicious and the original recipe only calls for 4 serving worth of ingredients, which I can guarantee, is never enough. Trust me. That being said, if you wish to make trial size dish go ahead and half the ingredients.

Ingredients (for 8 servings):
[A] — These are spices for aroma.
・2 Sticks Whole Cinnamon
・8g Whole Cloves
・8g Whole Green Cardamom
・4 Bay Leaves
・12g Ground Brown Cardamom (Use whole spice if you can find them. I couldn’t find it at my store)

[B] — These are spices for taste.
・12g Ground Chili Powder.
・12g Ground Coriander Seeds.
・12g Turmeric.
・34g Salt.

[C]
・2 1/2 large Yellow Onion.
・2 Cloves of Garlic.
・40g Fresh Ginger.
・2 Tomatoes.

[D]
・4lbs. Chicken Thighs.
・1 1/2 tbsp Yogurt.
・5 Potatoes.

[E]
・4 Green Thai Chili Peppers.
・10g Fresh Cilantro (Coriander).

・Water (about 500-1000g)

Here’s some tip: It will make your life significantly easier if you arrange the ingredients in the order of use. From closest↓ to the furthest↑, left→to→right. This way you can quickly grab the ingredients to add to pot without pausing.

Recipe:

1. Prepare the ingredients. This step is the most time consuming yet the most important part of the recipe. Play some good cooking music and enjoy.

Specific cutting instructions are captioned under the pictures below.

Plate spice ingredients [A] and [B] ideally in a separate plate for each but you can also use two big plates, one to put all the spices [A] and the other plate for spices [B].
Chop potatoes to about 1 cubic inch pieces.
Vegetables [C] [E]: Mince onion, garlic, tomatoes, ginger, cilantro, and chili peppers into small bits.
Remove skin and chop chicken to small chunks about 1-inch size. Put them in a big bowl and marinate with 1 1/2 tbsp yogurt. This will make chicken extra tender!

2. Get the biggest stock pot available and heat 150ml vegetable oil until it gets very hot. Fry the spice in group [A]. Stir stir stir non-stop. Keep stirring until spice pops. Do not let them burn. Goal here is to let the whole spices open to release the aroma.

3. Add onion. Keep stirring. Fry it until the edges start to get crispy. Again, stir non-stop so the content do not get burn. Burning is bad.

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4. Add [C] garlic then tomatoes then ginger. Keep stirring until everything is well mixed.

5. Add spices in group [B] — Ground spices are taste agents for your delicious curry. Again, do not burn the content! Keep stirring and cook down the ingredients. You want to boil out as much water as possible. Once the consistency become somewhat like thick paint add chicken.

6. Lower the fire and use your muscle and excellent spatula work to mix the content. Turn the entire content with spatula thoroughly to douse the chicken with delicious spice paste. Bring the fire to high and keep stirring until the chicken is fully cooked. …Remember that key word?

7. Now add potatoes and turn the content with spatula, vigorously. Once the potatoes are well seasoned with spices add the water just enough to cover the ingredients inside the pot like floating islands. See the picture above for reference. Add [E] chili peppers and cilantro and bring the pot to boil. Once the pot reaches boiling point bring the fire down to low and cover. Shimmer for 15 minutes or until potatoes are thoroughly cooked.

Completion!

Serve the curry on hot steamy rice and enjoy!

For the starter, it might be easier to keep the fire at medium/high to avoid burning (because this can be tricky especially for the first 2 steps). Overall cooking takes around 15 to 20 minutes (plus 15+ minutes for the final step) but depending on the amount of liquid in the vegetables and meat it may take longer to get the perfect spice consistency in step 5. Amount of water you need to top off the pot (step 7) varies depending on the hydration level. You never need the exact amount of water on the recipe and its better not to overdo it. I have tried this recipe multiple of times and every time I’ve tried it gets different hydration level but the end result always is amazing if you get the steps right. Perhaps this is the beauty of curry and it is the core source of wonder that excites me to consume this delicious dish.

Curry changes flavor over time once the temperature comes down and spices are well rested. So you can enjoy subtle differences in flavor. Please let me know how your turns out and share this post if you liked it! Cheers.

Dish full of flavor: Haga-style Teriyaki Chicken

Happy Sunday!
What do you feel like cooking today? How about some teriyaki chicken for dinner?
Today I’d like to share you this very easy recipe for delicious teriyaki chicken that certainly will add flavor to your dinner table!
<<日本語の投稿も一番下にございます>>

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Ingredients for 2-3 servings:

Chicken Thighs — 1 1/4 lbs.
Onion — 1/2
Potato Starch — 1 big tablespoon
Sesame Oil — 1 teaspoon
Coconut Oil — 1 tablespoon (Here’s some secret!)

+ Mirin (Rice Vinegar) — 1 tablespoon
+ Sugar — 1 tablespoon
+ Soy Sauce — 1 tablespoon
+ Dashi-shoyu (Fish/kelp extract) — 1 teaspoon (You can also substitute with powder form “dashi”)
+ Sake — 1 tablespoon

STEP1: Teriyaki Sauce Creation

Mix all + ingredients together and stir very well.

flavour
This will be the teriyaki sauce to mix with the chicken at the end.

STEP:2 Preparing Chicken

Remove all the bones from chicken and slice them up to tiny pieces.
Put the chicken to bowl and add 1 tablespoon of potato starch.
Mix them very well.

chicks
Looks sexy already, isn’t it?

STEP3: Stir fry the chicken and onions.

Slice the onion to thin pieces.

coconutoilHeat the frying pan on medium fire and put 1 tablespoon of coconut oil.

Once the oil melt evenly on the surface it is time to stir fry the chicken and onion pieces.

fried
Coconut oil adds delicate flavor to the chicken.
You can certainly substitute coconut oil with vegetable oil, but with Haga-style teriyaki please follow the book and use coconut oil 😉

…I’m getting so hungry as I write this haha.

Once the chicken cooked thoroughly, stop the fire and slowly add teriyaki sauce that you created in step 1.

Turn the fire back on to low and stir fry chicken and sauces to let the flavor bloom.
Drop 1 teaspoon of sesame oil just before stopping the fire to add the aroma.

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Tadaa!!!

Haga-style teriyaki chicken is super easy, and flavorful. You only use natural ingredients so it is definitely healthy option for tasty meal.

Hope you try it and send me some feed backs!


 

今回は自家製てりやきチキンのレシピを紹介します。
とても簡単で尚かつ栄養バランスもGOODな一品です。

JPingre
(材料 2−3人前)
鳥もも肉 1・1/4ポンド(600グラム)
タマネギ 1/2個
やし油 大さじ1
片栗粉 大さじ1
ごま油 小さじ1

+ みりん 大さじ1
+ 砂糖 大さじ1
+ 醤油 大さじ1
+ だし醤油(粉末でも可)小さじ1
+ 料理酒 大さじ1

STEP1: てりやきソースの作り方

+印の材料を小さな受け皿に入れて混ぜ合わせます。

flavour
てりやきはその名の通り”照り”が重要になりますので、みりんは少し多めに調整しても構わないです。

STEP2: 鳥肉の準備

鳥もも肉は、骨付きであればしっかりと骨を取り除いてください。ボールに移し、片栗粉大さじ1をまんべんなく混ぜ合わせてください。

chicks
片栗粉は全体的にうっすらと衣が付くぐらいが適当な加減です。

STEP3: とり肉、タマネギ、ソースを炒め合わせる

タマネギは千切りにしておき、やし油(ココナッツオイル)を熱したフライパンに溶かします
coconutoilとり肉とタマネギをしっかりと炒め合わせます。

friedやし油はとり肉に淡い風味を加えると同時に、南国の香りを付け加えてくれます。サラダ油でも代用出来ますが、ここは是非やし油の独特な味をお試しあれ。

全体に火が通ったら、一旦火を止めて、てりやきソースを加え再び弱火で味が絡むまで炒めます。

最後に、火を止める直前に小さじ1のごま油を落として出来上がり。

teriyakichicken

是非、夕飯の一品にお試しあれ!

How to cook easy, savory, and healthy miso soup at home

( MISO SOUP IS THE KEY IN JAPANESE CUISINE )

Misoshiru a.k.a. miso soup is essential delicacy of Japanese home.
It has a long history, perhaps waaaay longer than best known Japanese cuisine — sushi. A taste of misoshiru varies between regions and its recipe has been carried over generation after generation.

A type of miso paste can also vary between regions: some part of Japan uses what is known as white miso while the other region uses much thicker and bolder koji miso or aka miso (red miso); in colder regions it is common to see heavy load of cabbages while in mountainous regions people love to use rich amount of mushrooms and other root vegetables that come from the mountains.

You see, misoshiru is lot more than just a warm salty soup with pieces of tofu and tiny seaweeds floating over it; it’s a reflection of rich Japanese food culture and the representation of family tradition.

Although I have been away from home cooked misoshiru for about 10 years, I’ve kept some recipes from my mother and continue to craft my own misoshiru using the local ingredients in places that I live. Here’s the quick and easy recipe for the best misoshiru you will ever have:

<<Step by step recipe for Miso Soup>>

(2 servings)

  1. Mince vegetables of your choice. I normally go with carrot (1), yellow onions (1/4 cut) OR scallions (2 roots), firm tofu (1/3 block — firmer the better!), and 3-pieces of organic maitake mushrooms. Miso works great with root vegetables so burdock, daikon radish, cabbage would be great to add as well. Make sure veggies are minced to smaller pieces so they cook quickly.
  2. Add 2 cups of water to the pot and sprinkle in 1-tbsp powdered “dashi” broth you can find at local Asian supermarket. I would recommend using vegetarian broth (deriving from sea kelp). Add vegetables from step.1.
  3. Ignite the stove to medium fire and cook very slowly. Do not let the water boil too much — that will let all the goodness escape with the steam!

    miso1
    Put all the vegetables and tofu before starting the fire.
  4. Once all the ingredients are thoroughly cooked and softened, stop the fire and add one big table spoon amount of miso paste to the pot. You might want to use the miso paste that does not contain any food-additive like MSG. Get the one with the word 無添加 (additive-free) on the label like the picture below.

    miso sample
    The word 無添加 means additive-free. Free is good, always good.
  5. Add 1-tablespoon of dried wakame seaweed and let it sit for
    about 1-minute to let them flower.
  6. Serve in nice Japanese bowl and chop sticks.
    Enjoy with white or brown rice.

miso end
Tadaa!

The juice that boils out from maitake mushroom acts as organic “dashi” extract and brings up umami (savory) essence from each vegetables that you thrown into a pot.

It’s very soothing and savory way to conclude your long day at work.

Give it a shot!


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毎晩作ってる味噌汁について。

日本の家庭料理でやっぱり欠かせないのは味噌汁です。
アメリカンの感覚で言う日本食っていうと寿司なんですが、味噌汁こそが日本家庭の食卓になくてはならない、準主役的な存在だと僕は思っています。
アメリカでの一人生活も8年になりますが、あたたかいご飯と味噌汁は僕の食卓にもお約束事のように必ず登場します。ロンドンに住んでいた時も作りました。豆腐固くてまずかったけど!w

日本人のアイデンティティーとか、日本が世界に誇る遺産とか、大げさな言葉を使って世界に讃えたくなるのが、このシンプルながらもなかなか奥の深い味噌汁というヤツなのです。
日本人の感覚でいうおふくろの味とはまさしくこの味噌汁のことであり、海外で生活する日本人であれば必ず感じるであろう「郷愁の念」は漆塗りの椀の中の味噌汁に浮かんでくるものです。

僕も2006年に初めて一人で家を出て訪れたボストンの街での学生当時は料理なんてほとんどしたことがなかったのですが、行きつけていた市内唯一の日系のスーパーで初めて購入したのが味噌汁を作るためのマルコメ味噌とふえるわかめであったことを今でも思い出します。
もともと料理なんて全然できなかったへなちょこ学生の僕でしたが、さすがに8年も失敗を繰り返しているとある程度のスキルを身につけてくるものなんですね。
海外に住んでいると和食の無い生活形態に慣れてしまうものですが、栄養摂取のバランスとか、味の深みとか、やっぱり日本の家庭料理は世界一だな、と感じます。

作り方も色々ある味噌汁ですが、
僕が最近はまっているのは、舞茸のだしをベースにした味噌汁。
至ってシンプルですが、水加減と入れる具材のバランスだけでかなり深い味を出すことができるんですね。舞茸って本当にすごいです。味噌はだし入りのものだと化学調味料が入っているものがほとんどなので、Noだしのものを使用しましょう。
別途で粉末のだしも使うと舞茸のエッセンスとうまく調和していい香りが立ちます。

では農家で購入した有機栽培の舞茸を使用した簡単な味噌汁のレシピを紹介します。

<<誰でも簡単!味噌汁のレシピ>>

(2人前)
一.具材を切る。基本は青ネギ 2束 or タマネギ 1/4個人参 1本豆腐 1/3丁舞茸 3摘みを細切りにする感じですが、大根があれば大根もかなりおすすめです。

二. 鍋に450cc程水を入れ市販の植物性だし小さじ一加えて具材を全て鍋に投入して着火。弱火〜中火で水が沸騰しない程度に具をしっかりと熱する。ここで焦ってしまう と、ネギの芯が残ってしまったりするので、あくまでもスロゥクック思考で。完了ポイントは人参が柔らかくなる頃です。

三.鍋がこつこつと鳴りだして、舞茸がこれでもかってくらいにだしを出し始めたら火を止め味噌を大さじ1にちょっとサービスするかんじの量で鍋に優しく溶かし入れる。愛ですよ。愛が大切ですよ。

四.ふえるわかめを入れたいだけ入れる。

五.召し上がれ!

椎茸は煮詰められると、いい感じでだしが出ますので味噌は少なめに入れても十分味わい深い仕上がりになります。塩分を控えたいという人は、ほんの色付け程度に味噌の量を調整しても全然オーケーです。

皆さんの家庭ではどんな味噌汁を作ってますか?