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Recipe
Chicken Marsala
Jun 11th
Since I do not have fresh parsley, I used dried parsley.
Ingredients (2 servings)
- 2 boneless skinless Chicken Breast
- 2 Tbsp Flour
- 2 Tbsp Butter
- 2 cups Mushroom (sliced)
- 3/4 cups Marsala cooking wine
- 1/4 cup Water
- 2 Tbsp Fresh Parsley
- 1/4 tsp Rosemary (optional)
Method
- Split the chicken breast into half and pound it until thin.
- Dredge lightly on both sides with flour.
- Melt butter and sauté mushrooms over medium heat until browned.
- Place mushroom in a bowl and set aside.
- Add chicken to the skillet and cook through. Remove to serving platter.
- Return mushrooms to the pan, stir in Marsala cooking wine, water, parsley and rosemary.
- Heat and pout over chicken.
Adapted from Holland House Marsala cooking wine bottle.
Miso Soup
Jun 10th
Ingredients (2 servings)
- 2 cups of Water
- 1 teaspoon of Dashi
- 2 tablespoon of Miso Paste (white soy bean paste)
- Wakame
- 2 oz of Tofu cut into cubes
- Chopped Scallion
- 1 thinly sliced Shiitake/White Mushrooms (optional)
Method
- Prepare the Tofu and Wakame as directed on the package.
- Combine Dashi, Miso Paste, Water and Mushrooms (optional) in a pot and bring it to boil. Turn off the heat once it starts boiling.
- Add some Tofu and Wakame into a bowl, pour the hot soup into the bowl.
- Add chopped Scallion before serving.
Teriyaki Chicken
Jun 10th
Ingredients
- 2 pieces of Boneless Skinless Chicken Thigh ( ~ 220 g / 0.5 lb )
- 1/2 cup Teriyaki Sauce
- Sesame Seed (optional)
Method
- Slice the chicken into desired sizes.
- Marinate the chicken in Teriyaki Sauce for 15 minutes.
- Cook the chicken in medium heat.
- Drizzle some sesame seed (optional).
- Serve with Japanese Rice (optional).
Simple Teriyaki Sauce
Jun 10th
~ 1 cup of Teriyaki Sauce
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup Soy Sauce
- 1/2 cup Mirin
- 1/4 cup Sugar
Method
- Heat ingredients over the stove (low heat) until the sugar has completely dissolved.
- Keep in a bottle.
Recipe: Fried Shrimp with Sweet Creamy Sauce
Nov 6th
One of my favorite dish in Uncle John’s restaurant is Fried Jumbo Shrimp with Sweet Creamy Sauce.
I tried to replicate this dish minus the broccoli but it stills need tweaking. The condensed milk needs to be reduced!
Current recipe used:
1 lb. large peeled & deveined shrimp
cooking oilBatter:
1 large egg white
1/4 cup cornstarch
1/8 tsp baking soda (not needed?)
1/8 tsp salt (not needed?)
1 tsp oilSweet Creamy Sauce:
1/2 cup condensed milk (needs to be reduced to 1/4 or 1/8 cups)
1/4 cup mayonnaise
3 tsp lemon juice (needs more)
- Rinse & peel the shrimp. Pat it dry with paper towel.
- Batter: Mix the egg white, cornstarch, baking soda, salt and oil into a smooth paste.
- Coat the shrimp with the batter.
- Mix the condensed milk, mayonnaise & lemon juice in another bowl until smooth.
- Fry the shrimp until light brown. Remove from oil.
- Pour the sweet creamy sauce over the fried shrimp.
Referred from: http://www.stripersonline.com/surftalk/showthread.php?t=467023
I didn’t pour the sauce over.
Chawanmushi
Nov 5th
Picture: I got lazy and did not cover the bowl with foil.
Ingredients (2-4 servings depending on size of cups/bowls)
- 3 Eggs
- 1½ cup of Dashi soup stock
- ½ tsp Salt
- 1 tsp Soy Sauce
- 1 tsp Sugar
- 1 tsp Mirin
Optional Ingredients
- ½ chicken breast (tenderized, cut into bite size & briefly boiled)
- 2-4 shrimps (briefly boiled & depending on servings)
- Fish Cakes
- 1 Shiitake/White Mushroom (boiled, thinly sliced with stalk discarded)
Method
- Lightly beat the egg in a bowl.
- Strain the egg mixture (optional but recommended)
- Add cooled Dashi Soup stock, Salt, Soy Sauce, Sugar, Mirin into the egg mixture.
- Split Egg mixture into 2-4 cups/bowls.
- Add desired ingredients.
- Cover the cups (If no cover, use aluminum foils)
- Steam it!
Adapted from: About.com:Japanese Food & Rasa Malaysia
Picture: Plain Chawanmushi 
11/06/09
Recipe: Oyakodon (Chicken Donburi)
Nov 5th
This is probably my third time cooking Oyakodon.
Here is tonight’s recipe:
4 cups of steamed Japanese Rice
2½ chicken breast (the other half went to the Chawanmushi)
1 whole Mayan sweet onion
1½ cups of Dashi soup stock
4 tbps. Mirin
7 tbps. Kikkoman soy sauce
3 tbps. Sugar
6 eggs
- Cook the rice.
- Add mirin, soy sauce and sugar to dashi soup stock.
- Beat the eggs in a bowl.
- Thinly slice the onion.
- Tenderize and cut the chicken into small bite size.
- Pan fry the chicken in a large pan.
- Add dashi soup stock into the pan and simmer for a few minutes.
- Add onion and simmer for another few minutes.
- Bring the soup to a boil and add the eggs.
- Serve rice in a bowl, then the chicken and egg on top of the rice.
Referred from: About.com: Japanese Food
