japanese recipies

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actually there are three...I put a desert in the middle. >

hope this helps

 

Grilled eggplant [ Yakinasu ]

 

 

 

Ingredients

 

2 eggplants (long type is better)

soy sauce or mixed soy sauce and mirin (soy sauce 1 : mirin 1)

ginger

 

Directions

 

1.Wash eggplant, grill in the toaster oven (800W) for 15 minutes until

peel become crisp.

2.Soak grilled eggplant in the cold water and peel.

3.Cut into 2 inch, arrange on serving plate, pour soy sauce or mixed soy

sauce and mirin.

Garnish grated ginger.

 

Sweet azuki bean soup with rice cake [ Zenzai ]

 

 

 

Ingredients(for 2 persons)

 

1 cup azuki bean

2/3 cup sugar

1/4 teaspoon salt

2 pieces rice cake

 

Directions

 

1.Wash azuki bean well and drain off.

2.Put azuki bean into pan, pour 2 cups water and heat. When water comes

to boil, turn the gas

down and simmer for 2 or 3 minutes.

3.Put azuki bean into pressure cooker, pour 1 1/2 cups water and heat.

4.When weight started to turn, turn the gas down and simmer for 8 minutes.

5.Soak bottom of a pan into water. When pressure become flat, take off

lid, add 2/3 cup sugar

and heat again. Simmer for 10 minutes over low heat with stir by

scoop. Add 1/4 teaspoon salt

and stop to heat.

6.Put grilled rice cake into bowl and pour 5).

 

Miso soup - eggplant and somen noodles [ Nasu to soumen no misoshiru ]

 

 

 

miso soup in summer

 

Ingredients

 

1 eggplant

1 bunch somen noodles

2 cups soup stock

2 tablespoons soybean paste

 

Directions

 

1.Wash eggplant and cut into 4 wedges. Cut the wedges crosswise into 1/4

inch thick slice.

2.Pour 2 cups soup stock in pan and heat.

3.When soup stock comes to boil, put eggplant and simmer for 2 minutes.

4.Put somen noodles and again simmer for 1 minute.

5.Brend in 2 tablespoons soybean paste. Bring to boil and immediately

turn off heat.