Shio-kombu, that is Japanese salted kelp.

For 2

Carrot: 1
Salted kelp: a pinch

How to cook

1: Cut a carrot into pieces, about 5-6mm wide and 5cm long, and boil them lightly.
2: Only mix boiled carrots with salted kelp.

Tastes also good when cold.

For 2 to 3s

Ground chicken: 200 grams
Tofu (firm): 1/2
Starch: 2 tablespoons

A
Soy sauce: 2 tablespoons
Mirin (sweetened cooking liquor): 3 tablespoons

How to cook

1: Put ground chicken, tofu, and starch into a bowl and mix well.
2: Divide to 12 to 16 pieces, and round them to make balls.
3: Heat a pan with cooking oil, and grill chicken-Tofu balls for about 3 minutes for each side.
4: Add A and heat them a bit more.

The best snacks for everybody!

For 2

Gobo (Burdock root): 1

*A
Soy sauce: 2 tablespoons
Sake (cooking liquor): 2 tablespoons
Salt: 1/4 teaspoon
Minced ginger: 1/2 teaspoon

Starch: 1 tablespoon
Flour: 1 tablespoon

How to cook

1: Scratch off Gobo’s peel, and cut to thin sticks.
2: Rest Gobo pieces in A for more than 30 minutes.
3: Drain Gobo and cover with mixed starch and flour. Deep fry it in oil 340F (170℃) for 3 to 4 minutes.

It pairs very well with steamed rice.

Easy to cook and time saving!

For 2

Thin sliced beef: 250 grams

*A
Sake (cooking liquor): 1 tablespoon
Soy sauce: 1/2 teaspoon
Starch: 1 teaspoon
Salt & Pepper: a pinch

Onion: 1
Oyster sauce: 1 tablespoon
Sesame oil: 1 tablespoon

How to cook

1: Cut beef into bite size pieces, and mix well with A. Cut an onion to slices.
2: Heat sesame oil in a pan, and stir-fry beef. When beef is heated, add onion slices and keep stirring.
3: When Onion slices get soften, add oyster sauce. Stir-fry a bit more.

Enjoy natural sweetness of pumpkins.

For 2 to 3

Pumpkin: 1/4 (about 500 gram)
Katsuobushi: a handful
Water: 1 cup

*A
Sugar: 1 tablespoon
Mirin (sweetened cooking liquor): 1 tablespoon
Soy sauce: 1 tablespoon

How to cook

1: Take out seeds out of a pumpkin, and cut it to 3cm pieces.
2: Heat pumpkin pieces, water, Katsuobushi in a pot.
3: When boiled, add A. Use a paper towel as a lid and cook for 10 to 15 minutes with medium heat till water reduces to about 1/3.

One of my regular recipes. Keep it in the freezer, it lasts longer.

Chicken SOBORO

For 2

Ground chicken: 150 grams
Sugar: 3 tablespoons
Soy sauce: 2 tablespoons
Sake (cooking liquor): 1 tablespoon

How to cook

1: Put all ingredients into a pan and mix well.
2: Heat the pan and keep mixing continuously until all chicken is broken apart.

Egg SOBORO

for 2

2 eggs, beaten
Sugar: 3 teaspoons
Sake (cooking liquor): 1 teaspoon
Mirin (Japanese sweeten cooking liquor): 1 teaspoon
Salt : a pinch

How to cook

1: Put all ingredients into a pan and mix well.
2: Heat the pan and keep mixing continuously until all eggs turn into small pieces.

Go with rice or even breads.

For 2

Boneless chicken thigh: 300 grams
Salt: 1 teaspoon
Minced garlic: 1 teaspoon
Potato: 3
Onion: 1/2
Carrot: 1/2
Cooking oil: 1/2 tablespoon
Black pepper: a pinch

How to cook

1: Cut chicken, potatoes, onions, and carrots into bite size pieces. Then mix chicken with salt and garlic in a bowl.
2: Heat the cooking oil in a pot, then add chicken and stir. When chicken is lightly cooked, drain excess oil, add potatoes, onions, and carrots and keep stir-frying.
3: Pour water into the pot to cover all ingredients, put the lid on, and keep boiling till all vegetable are soft (about 20 minutes). Remove the lid, keep boiling till water is almost gone. Add black pepper when all cooked.

Easy to cook, happy to eat

For 2

Boneless chicken thigh: 250 grams
Garlic sprout: 1/2 sheaf
Enoki mushroom: 1 pack
Onion: 1/2
Starch: 1/2 teaspoon (mix with 2 teaspoons of water)

*Miso sauce
Miso: 2 tablespoons
Soy sauce: 1 tablespoon
Sugar: 1 tablespoon
Sesame oil: 1 teaspoon
Minced garlic: 1 teaspoon
Sesame seed: 1 tablespoon

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How to cook

1: Cut garlic sprouts, chicken into bite size pieces, enoki mushrooms to half, and slice onions.
2: Mix all ingredients for Miso sauce in a heatproof bowl, then add chicken, mushrooms, garlic sprouts, and onion, stair a few times. Use plastic wrap to cover the bowl, then put it in a microwave (700W) for 6 minutes.
3: Remove the plastic wrap, add starch, microwave it 1 more minute.

It pairs well with steamed rice.

For 2

Thin sliced pork belly: 80 grams
Eggplant: 2
Green pepper: 3
Minced garlic: 1/2 teaspoon
Minced ginger: 1/2 teaspoon

A (mix following ingredients)
Miso: 1 tablespoon
Soy sauce: 1/2 tablespoon
Sugar:1/2 tablespoon
Sake (cooking liquor): 1/2 tablespoon
Water: 3 tablespoons
oil: 1 tablespoon

How to cook

1: Cut eggplants, green peppers, and pork belly.
2: Heat the oil, garlic, and ginger in a pan with medium heat. Once it’s flavored, add pork belly.
3: When pork belly is lightly cooked, add eggplants, and keep stir-frying. Then add A when eggplants are softer, turn up the heat to medium.
4: Once A is boiled, add green peppers then stir a bit more.

Easy and tasty! Just mix all ingredients.
Such a perfect recipe for Valentine’s day!

For a 7 x 3 inch cake

Couverture chocolate: 100 grams
Unsalted butter: 80 grams
Powdered sugar: 30 grams
Egg: 2 (beaten)

How to cook

Before you start.
1: Preheat oven to 356F (180C).
2: Line a parchment paper in the loaf pan.
3: Get a saucepan ready for melting chocolate. Place a kitchen towel between a saucepan and a bowl, it will help not to burn chocolate.

1: Chop chocolate and butter, and put them into a heatproof bowl.
2: Mix them over a saucepan of simmering water. Water temperature should be 140F (60C). When it’s all melted together, add powdered sugar.
3: Add beaten eggs into the bowl in four to five separate additions. Keep the bowl over the saucepan, mix until sugar is dissolved, and batter gets sticky-thick.
4: Pour the batter into the loaf pan, and bake for 20 minutes in oven.
5: Cool it down in the pan.