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Thai-Style Pumpkin & Tomato Soup Vegan and Gluten Free ok!

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This recipe is perfect for a cold winter’s dinner.

ingredients

Of course soup warms you up but lemongrass, ginger, turmeric, and kaffir lime leaves all have benefits that serve you well in winter. Lemongrass for preventing colds, ginger is effective treating cold symptoms as it promotes sweating and fires up your metabolism, warming your body from the core. Turmeric strengthens your liver improvement and boosts recovery and kaffir lime leaves have a lot of vitamin C. Also, pumpkin has vitamins A, C, and Vitamins E to reduce fatigue and boost immunity. If you want a bit of spice simply add chilli to your taste.

Tomato and pumpkin


This Thai-style pumpkin, tomato, and coconut soup using fresh herbs is rich and creamy without using Thai paste from supermarkets. It’s so easy to make and the roasted pumpkin and tomato gives it a lovely flavour. You don’t need use butter or cream just use coconut cream or coconut milk and you’ll be surprised when you taste it!! It’s good for those who are vegan, gluten free, or dairy free.
Turmeric, kaffir lime leaves, and lemongrass are available at vegetable markets or supermarkets as well as most Asian shops.
If it’s a cold night and you want to warm your body this recipe is good for you as well as being quick and easy to make.

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Thai-Style Pumpkin and Tomato Coconut soup

Creamy and rich taste
Course Soup
Prep Time 30 minutes
Cook Time 30 minutes
Servings 4 people

Equipment

  • Blender

Ingredients

  • 460 g Pumpkin
  • 3 each Tomato 290g
  • 1 tbsp Rice oil For roasting
  • 1 each Onion 190g
  • 1 tsp Ginger Tube from supermarket
  • 1 tsp Garlic Minced already
  • 1 each lemongrass 20g
  • 25 g Turmeric Fresh
  • 2 each Kaffir lime leaves Dry or Fresh
  • ½ tsp Coriander seed powder
  • 1 tinned Coconut milk or cream 400g
  • 250 ml Water
  • 1 tbsp Rice oil
  • 1 tsp Salt
  • tsp pepper
  • 2 tbsp Pepitas For topping
  • tsp Salt

Instructions

  • Wash all vegetables.
  • Preheat your oven to 180℃
  • Remove pumpkin skin and seeds and cut to bite sized pieces.
  • Cut tomato in half.
  • Add the pumpkin and tomato into a baking dish.
  • Add 1 tbsp of rice oil into the baking dish then in to the oven for 30-40 mins
  • Slice onion.
  • Peel turmeric skin and cut it.
  • Cut lemongrass.
  • Add 1 tbsp of rice oil into a pot and turn heat to between high and mid.
  • Add the onion into the pot and cook until it softens.
  • Once the onion is soft, add the ginger and garlic into the pot and stir.
  • Add the lemongrass, turmeric and kaffir lime leaves into the pot and stir.
  • Add ½ tsp of coriander seed powder into the pot and stir.
  • Check the pumpkin and tomato and if pumpkin is beginning to brown add them into the pot and stir. It doesn't need to be soft in the middle yet.
  • Add 1 tsp of salt into the pot stir.
  • Add tinned coconut milk into the pot and stir.
  • Add 250ml of water into the pot.
  • Reduce heat to low and cook until all ingredients are soft.
  • Add pepper into the pot.
  • Add 2 tbsp of pepitas to a pan over a mid to high heat and begin cooking.
  • Add ⅛ tsp of salt and continue cooking until the pepitas are light brown.
  • Check the soup. If the vegetables are soft, turn heat off and let the soup cool down.
  • Remove the kaffir lime leaves from the soup.
  • Once the soup has cooled pour it into your blender and blend until the soup is smooth. We let it cook so as the heat in the sealed blender doesn't create too much pressure and turn your blender into a pumpkin soup bomb.
  • When you are ready to serve your soup reheat it in a saucepan, carefully ladle it into your soup bowls. and top with the roasted peiptas

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乳製品不使用パンプキンとトマトタイ風スープ

乳製品不使用なのにクリーミーで濃厚
Course Soup
Cuisine タイ風
Keyword dinner menu, healthy
Prep Time 30 minutes
Cook Time 30 minutes
Servings 4 人分

Equipment

  • ミキサー

Ingredients

  • 460 g カボチャ
  • 3 トマト 290g
  • 1 大さじ 米油 ロースト用
  • 1 玉ねぎ 190g
  • 1 小さじ 生姜 チューブ
  • 1 小さじ ニンニク 既にミンチ
  • 1 レモングラス 20g
  • 25 g ウコン 生又は粉小さじ1
  • 2 コブミカンの葉 乾燥又は生
  • ½ 小さじ コリアンダー粉
  • 1 ココナッツミルク 400g
  • 250 ml
  • 1 小さじ 米油
  • 1 小さじ
  • 小さじ 胡椒

Instructions

  • 野菜は洗っておく。
  • オーブンは180度に温めておく。
  • カボチャの皮と種をとり、一口サイズに切る。
  • トマトは半分に切る。
  • カボチャとトマトを耐熱容器に移し、オーブンに入れ30−40分ローストする。
  • その間に玉ねぎをスライスし、ウコンの皮をむき、スライスする。
  • レモングラスもスライスする。
  • 米油を鍋に入れ、中火強で熱し、オニオンを柔らかくなるまで炒める。
  • ニンニクと生姜を追加し更に炒める。
  • コリアンダー粉を追加して更に炒める。
  • レモングラス、ウコン、コブミカンの葉を追加して更に炒める。
  • ローストしたカボチャとトマトを追加して更に炒める。
  • 小さじ1の塩を追加して更に炒める。
  • ココナッツミルクを追加する。
  • 水250mlを追加。
  • 胡椒を追加し、弱火にして野菜がすべて柔らかくなるまで煮る。
  • 野菜が柔らかくなったら、火を止めてスープの荒熱をとる。
  • コブミカンの葉を取り除く。
  • ミキサーにスープを移し、スムーズになるまでミキサーにかける。
  • フライパンに大さじ2のカボチャの種を入れ、中火強の火にかける。
  • 小さじ⅛ の塩を追加し、更にカボチャの種を炒る。
  • カボチャの種が薄茶色になったら火を止める。
  • スープを温め直し、スープボールに移し、カボチャの種をトッピングする。

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Rhubarb and Strawberry Jam ルバーブと苺のジャム

I didn’t know about Rhubarb until I moved to Australia as it’s not popular in Japan. I’d never seen it in supermarkets or vegetables shops. The first time I saw rhubarb I didn’t know how to use it so I asked some of my chef friends about good dishes and how to cook it. I first tried it in a Rhubarb Jam on pancakes. It was so good. Melted butter on hot pancakes topped with rhubarb jam and maple syrup. The sourness of the rhubarb jam and the salted butter blending with the sweet maple syrup just went together so well in my mouth. Safe to say I liked it.
Rhubarb has lot of nutritional value; vitamins, niacin, folate, sodium, calcium, protein, etc.
Rhubarb has a detoxing effect and helps with constipation, controlling cholesterol, stress relief, strengthening the immune system, and is good for the eyes etc. Rhubarb is good for sweet and savory dishes. Jams, pies, muffins, salsa, salad, as a vegetable with meat are just a few. However, do not eat rhubarb leaves as they contain a lot of oxalic acid. Oxalic acid in your body combines with calcium and can cause stones or aggravate any gout you may have.
Strawberries were cheap one day and I had some rhubarb in my fridge so I made some jam to go on toast, put on yoghurt or put in a breakfast smoothie etc.
After cutting the rhubarb and strawberries, and add sugar, leave it sit for a day if possible to bring the moisture out of the strawberries.
When putting the jam into your jars the jam should be hot so as to kill as much bacteria as possible. For the same reason after putting on the lids of the jars, turn the jars over and let them cool upside down. Make sure the lids are on tight and the pressure of the hot jam will stop any air coming in and reduce the chance of bacteria entering
Be sure to sterilize your jars and lids using boiling water to any kill bacteria and then let them air dry, do not use a towel, before you use them.
I’ve found that 103℃ to 105℃ is the best for jam if reach when you are cooking so it’s not too runny nor not too hard.

本日はイチゴがバーゲンでしたので、家にあるルバーブとジャムを作ろうと思い、イチゴを購入しました。ルバーブってまだ日本ではあまり知られてないと思います。食べたことがない、見たことがない、聞いたことがないという方たちが多いと思います。私もオーストラリアに来るまで全く知りませんでした。こっちのシェフの友人にどうやって扱うのか、どうやって食べるのかを聞いて実践しました。
最初に食べたのはルバーブのみのジャムを作って、ホットケーキを焼いてバターとメープルシロップ の上にルバーブのジャムを載せて食べたのです。ルバーブの酸味とメープルシロップ の甘さとバターの濃厚を楽しみました。それからはルバーブのファンなのです。
日本では長野県と北海道と主に栽培されていますね〜。両方とも寒い場所ですね、なのでルバーブは寒冷地で栽培されるのですね。ルバーブは栄養豊かな野菜ですが、ルバーブの葉の部分はシュウ酸が大量に含まれていますので、食べないでください。
ルバーブはスイーツ、料理に両方使えるのです。リンゴと一緒にパイを作ったり、マフィンに入れたり、ジャムも美味しいです。
実はお肉や魚にも合います。ルバーブの酸味を生かしてお肉に合わせてりしてもいいですね〜。
今回は手頃にジャムを作りました。苺だけのジャムもいいのですがルバーブを合わせることでイチゴの酸味と甘味、ルバーブの酸味とほんのり苦味が砂糖と一緒になり、トーストに塗ったり、スコーンに添えたり、ヨーグルトの上に載せたりと色々と楽しめます。
もし、お店で見かけたら一度試してはいかがでしょうか?

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Rhubarb and strawberry Jam

Course Jam
Prep Time 1 day 20 minutes
Cook Time 40 minutes
Servings 3 Jars

Equipment

  • Thermometer

Ingredients

  • 550 g Rhubarb
  • 450 g Strawberry
  • 600 g Raw sugar
  • 1 each Lemon

Instructions

  • Wash rhubarb and strawberries.
  • Weight 600g of raw sugar.
  • Cut rhubarb 1.5cm width. Use only the stalks. (If rhubarb has leaves, remove leaves and do not use them.)
  • Hull the rest of strawberries and cut them in half.
  • Cut and squeeze the lemon.
  • Put all the rhubarb and strawberries into a bowl.
  • Add the sugar.
  • Add the lemon juice then cover with plastic and leave a day.
  • Next day, sterilize your jars and lids with boiling water then remove them and let them dry. (do not use towel to dry them.)
  • Add the all ingredients into a pot.
  • Over a high heat cook the jam until boiling.
  • Once the jam is boiling carefully remove the scum.
  • After removing the scum, reduce the heat to low.
  • Cook the jam until it reaches 103℃. (Use a cooking thermometer.)
  • Add the jam into your jars while its still hot.
  • Put the lids on and turn over your jars and let them cool upside down.
  • Once cool you can put the jam into your fridge.
  • You can keep them for 2 months.

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ルバーブとイチゴのジャム

酸味、ほんのり苦味が甘味とマッチング
Course ジャム
Prep Time 1 day 20 minutes
Cook Time 40 minutes
Servings 3

Equipment

  • 温度計

Ingredients

  • 550 g ルバーブ
  • 450 g イチゴ
  • 600 g 砂糖
  • 1 レモン

Instructions

  • ルバーブ、イチゴを洗う。
  • ルバーブは1.5cm~2cm幅に切る。
  • イチゴのヘタを取り、半分に切る。
  • 砂糖を量る。
  • レモンを半分にカットして絞る。
  • カットしたルバーブとイチゴをボールに入れ、砂糖とレモンジュースを追加してラップをして1日おく。
  • ジャム用の瓶と蓋を熱湯消毒して、乾燥ささせておく。このときタオルなどで水滴をふかないでください。
  • 1日おいたルバーブ、イチゴを鍋に移し、火にかける。沸騰するまで強火。
  • 沸騰してきたら、アクをとる。
  • アクをとった後、弱火にしてジャムの温度が103度になるまで煮る。
  • 熱いうちにジャムを瓶に移し、蓋をして瓶を逆さましてジャムを冷やす。
  • 冷めたジャムは冷蔵庫に移す。2ヶ月間は大丈夫です。

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Japanese food recipes

How to make Ramen noodles with easily obtainable ingredients

Hi ALL!

Let’s make Ramen Noodle today.
What do I need to make Ramen noodles at home?
First, I need KANSUI but it is hard to get in Australia. Kansui is made from Sodium carbonate, Potassium carbonate and Trisodium phosphate and is a food additive used in Asian cooking. It’s known as Lye Water in Australia but the concentrations can be much higher than found in Japanese products.
What kansui does to flour? Kansu changes the flavour and texture of dough, if I said chewy it sounds kind of negative but if I said al dente it’s more of a common understanding. If you compare Udon and Ramen noodles you will see very different noodles and that’s the difference Kansui makes.


I’ve made ramen noodle a lot times and experimented using semolina flour, bicarb, baking powder etc, and they are all good but I thought it would be easier using self-rising flour as its already got baking powder in it. It’s easy and cheap but using only self-rising flour isn’t enough. To get that Al-dente (or chewy) texture in your mouth you need to use bread (strong) flour and self-rising flour together.


When you kneed the dough you will use your foot make sure to wrap the dough with plastic before stepping on 😂 otherwise your dough will be dirty. Why use your foot for kneading the dough? The dough is quite hard and you want your noodles to have a combination of toughness and elasticity. Sounds funny using your foot but in Japan when making Udon they are use their foot to make the noodles KOSHI, firm and chewy instead of soggy and weak. It’s also good exercise before eating ramen hahaha😂.


Sometimes you see ramen noodle recipes, saying let noodles sit for 3-4 days so the taste is better. Yes, if you use KANSUI the is the case but this way you can use the noodles the day you made them. When the noodle is fresh I cooked them for 1 min 40 second, it was too much, so then I cooked them for 1 mins 30 seconds but still got too soft. I then tried 1 mins 15-20 seconds and it was perfect for me. I don’t like soft noodles, I like them al dente. Using this recipe you can make 5-6 serves. If you have leftovers you can freeze them for using later. Wrap in portions and keep in the freezer for 2 weeks. When you want noodles boil them from frozen. Just put noodle in boiling hot water for 1mins 30second.


Making ramen noodles on a daily basis for customers is very time consuming especially if you have a very busy shop. Some ramen shops buy noodles from companies that will make them especially to go with their style of soup. Different thickness of noodles, firm they want them when cooked, straight noodle or curly noodles all this is available from the many Japanese noodle companies. Still, many small traditional shops make their own noodles because that’s the way it’s been done for a long time and they want to preserve the old ways. Chinese noodles came to Japan and about 600 years ago but over time they changed to be what we know as Japanese Ramen today.
After WW2, there were lots of ramen stands. These can still be found today on some older train platforms in Tokyo complete with three stools and a line-up of suited salarymen waiting their turn to eat. You don’t see many anymore but they still remind us of the charm of old Japan. There is still ramen stand so if you are going to Japan you can research and try it. You will like old style Japan.
I remember when I was kid watching tv with my family and hearing music from and instrument called a CHARAMERA, in English a Suona. This was from the Ramen version of the Ice-cream man and OJI-SAN (old men) would be selling ramen from a cart or van. Even if we’d had dinner we’d hear that music and suddenly want to eat ramen hahaha.

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Ramen noodles

Making ramen noodles at home with easily obtainable ingredients.
Course Main Course
Cuisine Japanese
Prep Time 1 hour
Servings 5 served

Equipment

  • Pasta machine

Ingredients

  • 250 g Bread flour (High gluten flour)
  • 250 g Self-raising flour
  • 1 Each Egg
  • 5 g Salt
  • 200 g Water
  • Starch (corn or Potato) For dust

Instructions

  • Weigh bread flour and self-rising flour and put into a bowl.
  • Sieve your flour into another bowl.
  • Crack egg into a third bowl.
  • Add Salt into the bowl with the egg.
  • Add the water into the bowl with the egg and salt.
  • Mix egg, salt and water well.
  • Make a hole in middle of the flour with a fork.
  • Add ⅔ of the wet mix into the hole and mix with the fork.
  • if not too wet add the rest of the wet mix and continue mixing.
  • Put down the fork and mix with your hand. ( You will think there's not enough water as you mix with you hand it will come together.)
  • Once the dough starts coming together make it in to a ball then put it into a plastic bag. You'll need to double bag it as you're going to step on it with your foot.
  • Put the bag of the dough on your floor and knead it with your foot.
  • Remove the dough from the bags and reform the ball again. Put the dough into the plastic bags again.
  • Knead the dough with your foot. Repeat 2-3 times. Its very Kneady process! Ramen noodles are high maintenance.
  • Once the dough surface in nice and smooth your dough will be done.
  • Make 4-6 balls.My video says 4 balls but if find smaller balls easier to work with you can make 6.
  • Set your pasta machine on your bench.
  • Flatten the dough with your hand, set your pasta machine dial to 7 and start rolling. Dust the dough with starch if it gets sticky when using your pasta machine.
  • Set dial to 6 and roll the dough.
  • Set dial to 5 and roll the dough.
  • Set dial to 4 and roll the dough.
  • Fold the dough in half. set dial back to 5, and roll the dough.
  • Set dial to 4 and roll the dough.
  • Set dial to 3 and roll the dough.
  • Place the flattened dough on your bench. You will need space.
  • Repeat with all the balls of dough.
  • Dust the surface the dough with starch potato or corn.
  • Turn over the dough and dust the other side
  • Set your past machine to make spaghetti.
  • Roll your dough through the spaghetti roller, be careful and gently pull on the noodles as they come through the roller.
  • When finished lay your noodles out on the bench.
  • Place your noodles in to an airtight container.
  • if you do not use all your noodles straight away, you can freeze them, but wrap them in portion.

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Japanese food recipes

How to make Ramem Soup from scratch at home

In Japan we have lots of Ramen shops and each shop has their own style of soups and noodles. You won’t find same taste unless there are more than one shop from that owner or group. Lots of Ramen shops owners explement to find the right soup to match their noodles for their ramen.
What kinds ramen can you find in Japan? Soy, salt, Miso, Tonkotsu, Toripaitan, Tuke-men and Oil-soba are just some of the more popular ones. Tonkotsu, from Kyushu, uses pork bones and is cooked for many hours to make a cloudy soup. Toripaitan is similar to Tonkotsu but uses chicken bones instead of pork. For Tuke-men the noodles and soup are served separately and when you eat it you dip the noodles into the soup. Oil-soba has no soup just noodles on top of TARE (sauce) so when you eat you have to mix noodles and any topping in to the sauce. There are many different toppings as well. Chashu (Roast Pork), Menma (Bamboo Shoots), Nori, boiled eggs, spring onions etc. You can surely find the right ramen suit you taste in Japan. Ramen shop owners are all proud of their style of ramen and customers will return over, and over to their favourite shops.
Sometimes people ask can all Japanese people make ramen soup stock like in ramen shops. Well the answer is yes and no. Yes, you can make soup at home but it won’t be the same as your favourite shop because the owners are very secretive of their recipes. If you just want a simple but quick soup just use chicken bones to make stock or buy a powdered ramen soup. If you want to be really authentic like the shops you’ll need to experiment with different bones and ingredients to try and find your style of ramen soup. Ramen shop owners will either stay back after the shop has closed to prepare the soup for the next day or start early in the morning so the soup is ready by opening time.
Ramen is a very delicate and deep cuisine and people spend years perfecting their own style with a passion that equals that of French or Italian chefs. In 2015 a Tokyo ramen restaurant was even awarded a Michelin Star! Ramen shop owners used to known as “GANKO-OYAJI” meaning stubborn old man. Like I said before, they are fiercely proud of their ramen and believe their ramen is No.1. Each Japanese prefecture has a different ramen style so if you have a chance to go to Japan and travel around, please, try ramen in each place you visit. If you are lucky, maybe you will see GANKO-OYAJI hahaha…and eat Japan’s best ramen.
My ramen recipe uses chicken and pork bones along with dried shiitake mushroom. Pork bones have Inosinic acid, chicken bones have Glutamic acid and dried shiitake mushroom have Guanylic acid which are all natural flavour enhancers that will combine to make a delicious soup.
If people cannot have pork dried bonito has Inosinic acid as well so you can use bonito and chicken bones with shiitake mushroom or you can make your style. There is no rule for ramen soup. You can use Konbu (kelp), dried bonito, vegetables etc.
You can experiment in your kitchen and have a ramen party with your friends or family at home just like a BBQ 😄.
After a couple of hours of simmering your soup stock put your pork in the soup and simmer it on low heat for another four hours. The pork will soak in the soup flavours makes a delicious Chashu. This also saves a lot of time.
If you have any leftover soup you can keep it in the freezer for a month. When I freeze the soup I make small portions so I can just defrost what I need at the time. Leftover Chasuh is best sliced and wrapped individually so you can again just defrost what you need.
If you don’t want Chashu you can use vegetables instead or just spring onion and wakame or nori. You can do anything you want it’s your ramen.
My husband loves Chashu ramen, so I always cook Chashu and put lots in his ramen. Every time he starts by eating the Chashu and when he gets to the noodles he thinks his noodles have increased hahaha 😂. The noodles swell if you leave them too long before eating.

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Ramen soup

Making authentic Ramen soup from scratch
Course Main Course
Cuisine Japanese
Prep Time 30 minutes
Cook Time 7 hours
Servings 5 serve

Ingredients

  • 1.5 kg Pork bones
  • 1.5 kg Chicken bones
  • 25 g Dried Shiitake mushroom
  • 2 each Onion 330g
  • 130 g Spring onion Use green parts only
  • 90 g Ginger use fresh
  • 50 g Garlic use fresh
  • 3 L Water
  • 1 kg Pork slow cook scotch roast For Chashu

Instructions

  • Wash all vegetables.
  • Add pork bones and chicken bones into a large bowl.
  • Add hot water into the bowl to defrost bones and wash away the blood.
  • Leave the bones in hot water for 15 mins.
  • While waiting for the bones to defrost cut your vegetables.
  • Remove onion skin and cut onion roughly.
  • Cut the spring onion and use the green part.
  • Slice the ginger.
  • Peel and crush the garlic.
  • Weigh the dried shiitake mushroom.
  • After 15 mins throw out the hot water. if the bones are still frozen add hot water into the bowl again.
  • Once the bones have defrosted, wash the bones and throw out the water.
  • Put the bones, dried shiitake mushroom and all the cut vegetables into a large pot suitable for making soup.
  • Add 3L of water into the pot.
  • Turn heat to high and bring to the boil.
  • Once the stock is boiling, remove the scum
  • Reduce the heat to low and simmer for 2 hours.
  • While the soup simmer, we will prep our Chashu.
  • Add the pork-Chashu into a bowl.
  • Add the hot water into the bowl and wash the pork and remove any blood.
  • Remove the pork-Chashu and place it in a clean bowl.
  • After 2 hours, add the pork-Chashu into the soup stock and cook 4-4.5 hours.
  • Remove the pork-Chashu gently from the soup stock and put in into a bowl.
  • Strain the stock into a pot to catch the bones and debris.

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When you make ramen stock if do not use the soup straight away please let it cool down before putting it in your fridge. Putting hot food straight into the fridge can cause bacteria to grow which can lead to food poisoning. When you want ramen just reheat the soup.
You can buy soup bones at the butcher. They aren’t usually on display so just ask if they have any.
Dried shiitake mushroom you can buy at Asian shops or Woolworths. You can make them at home if you have a dehydrator. I buy fresh mushrooms and put them in my dehydrator for a day.

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Japanese food recipes Vegan ヴィーガン

How to make Vegan Gyoza ヴィーガン餃子を作ろう

I where live, people life is getting back normal still you have to be had social distance, do not go lots of people, or wash hands every time go to outside, etc. finally lock down is finish and I go to back work, it is great I hope everything back to normal soon.
I want to talk about vegans today. Where I work we get lots of vegan guests some of who choose a vegan lifestyle and some for health reasons. A vegan diet is difficult as you need to learn what alternative foods to eat so as to get enough proteins, vitamins, and calcium etc, and the nutrients your body needs. So if you want be vegan please study for you’re the goo of your body.
Soybeans are a good source of high-quality, highly digestible protein and also calcium, Iron, vitamin E, and Zink etc. Shiitake mushroom is high in proteins as well but also lot of fiber and vitamin D.
I decide to make Vegan Gyoza because I made a lot of tofu and soy milk the other day and I have a lot of Okara, soy pulp, that can be used in so many things such as cookies, cakes, Japanese style Hamburg steak, meats balls, Japanese minced-Katsu, and of course Gyoza. Okara is an all-purpose and healthy source of protein. Okara used be free from tofu shops a long time ago but now you can buy it at tofu shops or from supermarkets in Japan and is today a superfood like chia and quinoa. See my videos on how to make soy milk on YouTube so you can get Okara from this process. Try to make some.
Gyoza skins usually only contain flour, salt, and water, you can make them, or you can buy them. However, if you are vegan check there is no egg in them. I will post how to make gyoza skins on my YouTube channel. When you make gyoza skins the taste and texture is better, but it will take time. You can make with your kids, your partner, your family or your friends. I listen to music when making cooking things that take time. Sometimes I listen scary stories on YouTube hahahah.
My husband had vegan gyoza without knowing and think they tasted any different from pork Gyoza.
Gyoza came from China and in Japan we started eating them from about 100 years ago. After WW2 Japanese Gyoza started to develop their own character and different prefectures have their own gyoza style. Most popular is Ustunomiya Gyoza. Utusnomiya is Gyoza town, lots of vegetables and meats, that’s Ustunomiysa style.
Other places, Fukushima, Kobe, Hamamatu (Shizuoka) and Hakata etc, all are famous for different styles. As you tcan imagine people make different styles Gyoza at home. Some people use regular cabbage instead Chinese cabbage, some people don’t use garlic, so you can try your style!
Also, if you have chance to go to Japan, try different Gyoza in different places.
This is my vegan gyoza style. I sometime use chickpea instead soy beans when I don’t have time to make Tofu or Soy milk.

今日はヴィーガンのお話です。まだまだ日本ではヴィーガンはここオーストラリア又は他の国よりは少ないと思います。毎年増えているとは思いますが、オーストラリアではヴィーガンレストラン又はカフェや普通のレストランでもヴィーガン用のメニューがあります。
ヴィーガンとベジタリアンの違いは簡単に言うと、ヴィーガンは動物性なものは一切食べません。食べ物だけではなく、ウール、革製品なども使用しないと言うのがヴィーガン協会では定められています。最近では蜂蜜、アボカドもダメと言う人も出てきます。理由は蜂にとって不公平だということだそうです。
最近ではヴィーガンの人達の中では卵や乳製品を摂取している人もいます。まあいろいろな形があっていいのでは?(笑)
ヴィーガン料理って難しそうと思う人も多いと思います、実はヴィーガン料理は意外と簡単なのです。私のウェブサイトにもヴィーガン料理は載せていますので参考にどうぞ。今回のレシピはとっても簡単にヴィーガン料理ができるというものです。皆さん餃子は好きですよね〜、それにとても身近なものだと思いますので、肩をはらずに作れますよ〜。
オカラさえあればいいのですから、あとは普通の餃子にように作ればいいのですよ!主人に何も言わずに食卓に出したら気付いていませんでしたよ!食後に伝えたら普通の餃子と思って食べていました(笑)。意地悪??(笑)。味、食感がほとんど変わらないって言っておりました。うちの食卓には結構ヴィーガン食が出るのですよ〜。私たちはヴィーガンではありませんが、家で作るスープ、デザート等はヴィーガンですね〜。キッチンで実験するのが好きなのです(笑)。

Ingredients : flour, salt and water
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Vegan Gyoza

High protein using Soy pulp OKARA and Shiitake mushroom
Course Main Course
Cuisine Japanese
Prep Time 30 minutes
Cook Time 10 minutes
Servings 25 each

Ingredients

  • 130 g Chinese cabbage*
  • 50 g Garlic chives*
  • 30 g Spring onion*
  • 1 tsp Salt For * vegetables
  • 100 g Okara Soy pulp
  • 100 g Shiitake mushroom
  • 1 tsp Garlic already minced
  • 1 tsp Ginger Tube
  • 2 tsp Sesame oil
  • 2 tsp Soy sauce
  • 1 tsp Sugar
  • tsp Salt
  • tsp pepper
  • For 8 Gyoza
  • 2 tsp Rice oil 1 tsp + 1 tsp
  • 1 tbsp Starch Corn or Potato
  • 4 tbsp Water
  • For sauce (for 8 Gyoza)
  • ½ each Lemon
  • 1 tbsp Soy sauce
  • ¼ tsp Dried chili

Instructions

  • Chop the Chinese cabbage, garlic chives and spring onion. put them into a bowl, add 1 tsp of salt, mix it well then leave stand for 30 mins to remove excess moisture from the vegetables.
  • if using fresh ginger and garlic, grate them. (in my fridge I always have minced garlic and a tube of ginger : fresh ginger is very expensive here is Australia.)
  • Chop shiitake mushrooms.
  • After 30 mins, wash the chopped well vegetables until the salt taste is gone.
  • Squeeze the chopped vegetables to remove any remaining moisture. (Gyoza doesn't like moisture.)
  • Put the chopped vegetables into a bowl.
  • Add Okara and the chopped shiitake mushroom.
  • Add ginger, garlic, soy sauce, sesame oil, sugar, salt and pepper.
  • Mix well.
  • Dust a tray with starch and spread it evenly. (This is to stop the Gyoza sticking to the pan and also help crisp the skin a little.)
  • Place a small amount of the filling in the centre of a Gyoza skin and fold the skin as shown in the pictures below. when done place the Gyoza on the dusted tray.
  • Making sauce for 8 Gyoza
  • Cut and squeeze ½ a lemon.
  • Add the lemon juice and 1 Tbsp of soy sauce into a bowl.
  • Add dried chili to the bowl and mix well.
  • Cooking Gyoza for 8 Gyoza
  • Add 1 tsp of oil to a frypan and turn heat to between mid and high.
  • Before the pan get too hot add Gyoza to the frypan.
  • Cook the Gyoza until Gyoza's bottom is nice brown colour.
  • Add 4 Tbsp of water to the frypan and add a lid on the frypan.
  • Cook until the water in the frypan in gone, then take off the lid and add 1 tsp of oil again on the Gyoza. (This will make it easy to remove the Gyoza and make the bottom a little crunchy.)
  • Using a tool (I use a long chopstick, but you can use anything comfortable for you.) to free the Gyoza from the pan.
  • Once the Gyoza are free, put a plate ( use a plate bigger than the frypan) on the frypan, and flip the frypan leaving the Gyoza on the plate. (Be careful, the frypan is hot.)

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ヴィーガン餃子

オカラを使った餃子
Course Main Course
Cuisine Japanese
Prep Time 30 minutes
Cook Time 10 minutes
Servings 25

Ingredients

  • 130 g 白菜*
  • 50 g ニラ*
  • 30 g ネギ*
  • 1 小さじ 塩* *野菜用
  • 100 g オカラ
  • 100 g 椎茸
  • 1 小さじ ニンニク ミジン
  • 1 小さじ 生姜 チューブ
  • 2 小さじ ごま油
  • 2 小さじ 醤油
  • 1 小さじ 砂糖
  • 小さじ
  • 小さじ 胡椒
  • 餃子8個焼き分用
  • 2 小さじ 米油 小さじ1+小さじ1
  • 1 大さじ 片栗粉
  • 4 大さじ
  • タレ餃子8個分
  • ½ レモン
  • 1 大さじ 醤油
  • ¼ 小さじ 七味

Instructions

  • 白菜、ニラ、ネギはみじん切りした後、すべてをボールに入れて小さじ1の塩を追加してよく揉んで30分おく。
  • その間に椎茸をみじん切り。
  • 生の生姜と生にんにくを使う場合はすりおろしておく。(オーストラリアは生姜がすごく高いのでチューブを購入しています。ニンニクは大量に買ってみじん切りにして常に冷蔵庫に保管しています。)
  • みじん切りにした白菜等の野菜を塩味がなくなるまでよく水で洗い、よく絞っておく。
  • 絞った野菜をボールに移し、おから、椎茸、ニンニク、生姜、ごま油、醤油、砂糖、塩と胡椒を同じボールに入れてよく混ぜる。
  • トレイに片栗粉を敷いておく。餃子を包み同トレイに載せていく。
  • タレを作る。レモンをしぼり、醤油と七味を入れて混ぜておく。
  • フライパンに小さじ1の油をひき、中火強にして餃子をおいていく。餃子の底に焼き色がついたら、大さじ4の水を入れ、蓋をして弱火にして蒸し焼きにする。
  • 水分がなくなったらさらに小さじ1の油を追加し、箸等で餃子を優しく剥がし餃子がフライパンの中で動く状態なら皿をフライパンの上に乗せ、皿のそこを支えてからフライパンをひっくり返す、この時熱いので火傷には気をつけてください。
  • 餃子が皿に乗ったらタレをそえて出来上がり。
Soy pulp OKARA
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How to Make Fresh Soy Milk and Okara

There are lots of people who have food issues like Coeliac disease, Fructose intolerance, FODMAP, Anaphylaxis, Egg allergy, and Nightshade free, etc. This recipe is for people can’t have any Lactose. There are lots of cow’s milk, lactose free alternatives at supermarkets or shops, made from nuts, rice, oats etc, so you have plenty of commercial options to choose from. However, there’s something so much better about making your own.
Have you ever wondered about making Tofu? When you make Tofu you can also make soymilk. I know you can buy soymilk at the shop but if you have the time you can try to make so you know exactly what is in your milk and it tastes so much better. Fresh soymilk tastes kind of sweet. You can use fresh soymilk for coffee, breakfast cereal, when making pancakes, making soups, or just for drinking.
I use organic soybeans because the final product taste’s so much better. Sometimes my mother sends soybeans from Japan and Japanese soybeans have a much richer taste than what you get here in Australia. This could be because of the different soils and that Japan is a very wet country. If you chance to go to Japan be sure to try Japanese Tofu and soymilk.
When you make soymilk you will also will get the soy pulp, called “Okara” in Japanese, and this you can use for a variety of things. In my freezer I always keep Okara because you can use it in Vegan or Vegetarian as a good source of protein. You can also use it as an alternative for breadcrumbs when you are making Japanese style Hamburg steak or Menchi Katsu meat balls. Okara can also be used for sweet things, like cookies, banana bread, and scones, etc. I will post some sweet recipes using Okara and some other Okara dishes one day.
You can keep fresh soymilk in your fridge for 1-2days, there’s no preservatives so use it quickly. You can keep Okara in your freezer for a month. I will always make small portions so it’s easy to use when you need it.

Fresh SOYMILK and Okara

| Prep Time 16-20 hours | CookingTime 1hour30mins

Ingredients

Dried Soybeans

200g

Water (for soaking)

800ml-1L

In winter 16-20 hours,

in summer 9-10hours

 

Water (filter or mineral water)

1200ml

Method

  1. Weigh your soybeans, put them into a bowl, and wash them.
  2. Drain the dirty water, rinse few times, and remove any cracked beans.
  3. Put the soybeans into a decent sized bowl, add 800-1000ml of water, and leave soak for 16-20 hours. This is during winter; in summer you’ll only need 9-10 hours.
  4. When ready the beans should be approx. three times their original size.
  5. Drain the water.
  6. Measure 1200ml of water.
  7. Add half the soybeans and half the water into your blender and blend until smooth.
  8. Add the blended mixture into a larger sized pot or saucepan.
  9. Repeat this process with the remaining soybeans.
  10. Line a strainer with a cloth, place it in a bowl, and set it aside for now.

  1. Simmer the soymilk for 9-10mins over a low heat while STIRING CONTINIOUSLY as soymilk is easy to burn!! Burnt soymilk doesn’t taste good!!
  2. Pour the soymilk into the bowl with cloth and strainer. Draw the cloth around the mixture and using a spatula press down on the mixture. Be careful it’s very hot. Continue squeezing the mixture in the cloth and filter out the pulp, or Okara, from the milk.
  3. Repeat the same action until no more milk can be extracted.
  4. Pour the soymilk into a jar, let it cool, and put it your fridge. You can keep it for 2-3 days. There’s no preservatives so use it quickly.
  5. Let Okara cool and if you don’t use it keep in your freezer for up to a month. I always make small portions of Okara and defrost in my fridge when I want to use it.
Okara Soy pulp

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About my dogs story

Want share my beautiful Dogs “Koume” & “Hakubi” 柴犬小梅と北海道犬白眉に出会ったお話

This is for my dogs Koume, a Shiba-Inu, and Hakubi, a Hokkaido-ken, who have both passed way.
Part 1: Meeting Koume.
Koume was my first-ever dog. I always wanted a Japanese Shiba-Inu since when I was a kid because to me they’re a Japanese icon. My town was small then and everybody knew each other. Most of our neighbours had Shibas. On my way home from school I’d see them sitting beside their house watching the world go by. They look intelligent, they’re always calm, and never bark unnecessarily was my image of a Shiba, at least when I was a kid. I couldn’t have a dog when I was kid because my parents are always busy and my mother didn’t like a dogs. She was bitten by a dog when she was kid and I guess it was traumatic for her. I have a brother and he loved animals when he was kid. I remember he was hiding a kitten or cat with his friends and giving them milk and food. Because of this our garden was always where cats hung out. My mother wasn’t happy at all, Hahahaha 😅.
I always thought that when I got married I will have a dog, a Shiba- Inu!! My husband and I love animals and he’s had dogs all his life so we decided to get a Shiba. It wasn’t easy to find Shiba in Australia at that time as they weren’t popular not they are today. It took time to find Koume but when we had found her we were so happy and excited. We had to go to Bendigo in Victoria to meet her just after she was born. She was so small. When we saw her and I had chance to hold her and I was very happy even when she pee’d on me HAHAHAH😭. My husband said she felt the evil. How rude!!😤. We had to wait about 6 weeks until we could bring her home but the breeder sent photos and told us about what she had done that day, what she ate, and things like that, so we could keep up to date.


Finally the time came for us to pick her up. We drove 8 hours to Bendigo from Jindabyne but it was and exciting road trip. On the way we talked about her name, what we will do with her, how I look after a dog because this is my first time. My husband knew already things like that. We stayed in Bendigo that night at a beautifully restored old hotel so we can pick her up the next day. I couldn’t sleep that night. Next day, we got to the breeder’s house and Koume was ready to go. We packed her in to our car with a few toys so she wouldn’t get bored because it was going to be a long trip home. We had to stopped for her to pee so we had lunch in a park and she was in the big world for the first time. She wasn’t worried, she just enjoyed sun and beautiful green grass. We thought she was going to cry in the car but she didn’t much. She slept most time but a couple of hours from home she started crying a little so we thought she might need to pee. It was May in the Snowy Mountains, nearly midnight , and freezing but we stopped and got her out of the car. She was just sniffing and playing while we were waiting but she didn’t pee so we got back in the our car and headed home. I was holding her in my lap and she decided pee on me… AGAIN!! Hahahah 🤣. I said, “Really dog”.


Finally, we got home. It had taken 12 hours with all the pee stops. We were all tired but we had to work the next day so we put her in to her bed and watched for a while to make sure she was ok .After a while she just fell asleep and slept all night, no fuss, no crying, she was going to be a good dog.

Good night


To be continued……..

これは私たちが飼っていた柴犬と北海道犬のお話です。既に他界してしまいましたが古い写真とビデオを見つけたので、投稿したいと思って書いております。
この投稿は柴犬の小梅と北海道犬の白眉へ捧げたいと思います。
子供の頃から柴犬が飼いたいという夢を持っていました。母が子供の頃に犬に噛まれた経験があるためトラウマになったのでしょうね〜、絶対にペットを飼うことはできませんでした。それに両親はとても忙しいかった理由もあります。
なので、自分は結婚したら絶対に柴犬を飼うのだって思っていました。
主人と自分はしばらく日本に住んでいて、初めて柴犬を見せた時、ディンゴみたいだね〜と主人が言っていました。(ディンゴとはオーストラリアの野生犬みたいなものです。)オーストラリアに戻って主人に自分の夢を話して彼は賛成してくれました。
早速、柴犬をオーストラリアで探し始めましたが、なかなか見つかりません。今でしたら簡単なのかもしれませんが、やっと見つけたブリーダーはビクトリア州、自分達が住んでいるのはニューサウスウェールズ州だったので車で8−9時間。
メールでブリーダーに連絡を取り、メールの返事がぜひ、子犬に会いに来ませんかと、なので早速ビクトリア州まで柴犬の子犬に会いに行きました。その時、小梅を抱いていいよって言われたので、ビクビクしながら小梅を抱えたら、その後すぐに小梅にオシッコをかけられました(笑)。その後ブリーダーとは小梅を引き取るまで連絡を取り合い、メールに小梅の写真を添付、今日はこれだけご飯を食べたとか、これだけ遊んだとかをたくさん情報をくれました。早く引き取り日が来ないかな〜とまるで子供の様にワクワクしながら待っていましたよ〜。
その日が来ました。引き取る前日にビクトリア州には着いていて、一泊をして、朝のうちには小梅を引き取りに行きました。ブリーダーの方は少し泣いていましたね。短い時間だったかもしれませんが、愛着があったのでしょう。小梅の方は早く行こうぜって感じでしたね(笑)
長いドライブの始まりです。私たちは小梅が鳴くのではないかと心配していましたが全く心配する必要なし、ほぼ寝てました(笑)。クーンクーンと鳴き始めた時は退屈だから出せ!って。なので、素敵な公園を見つけてお昼兼と散歩等で車を止めて、日差しも暖かなのでゆっくりと散歩をしました。初めての大きな世界に飛び出した小梅、怖がらず、ただ暖かい日差しをエンジョイしていました。
小梅の気も晴れたので、又長いドライブに戻り小梅はまた寝に戻り(笑)、自分家にあと1時間位かな〜というところでまたクーンクーンとオシッコかも思い車を止め、暗い中で散歩とオシッコでしばらくあちこち歩いたのですが、ただの小梅の退屈(笑)なのでまた車を走りさせた、その時私は小梅を自分の腿に乗せていました。車を走らせて5分後……又おしっこを(笑)。やっと家につき、冬だったので家の中は寒く、薪を炊いて小梅が寒くない様にして、小梅に彼女の寝どころを紹介し、しばらく様子を見て、小梅も疲れていたのでしょうすぐにグーグー寝てしまいました。
続く……

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