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Healthy Shabu-shabu

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Meal of the Day: Healthy Shabu-shabu

Today I’ve prepared a healthy shabu shabu meal. Shabu-shabu is a dish from Japan usually prepared with thinly sliced beef, pork, crab, chicken and lobster.

Some of the ingredients were bought from Robinsons Supermarket Galleria, the Prawns, creamdory and Salmon came from Farmers Market in Cubao.

Ingredients:

  • Brown Rice
  • Homemade creamdory fish balls
  • Salmon
  • Creamdory
  • Tiger Prawns
  • Crab Sticks
  • Shiitake Mushroom
  • Tiong HWA Tofu
  • Fresh Noodles
  • Chinese Cabbage
  • Ready to Eat Dae Jang Gum Korean Fresh Kimchi (No Preservatives)
  • Water
  • Spring Onions
  • Chopped chilli
  • Tomatoes
  • Carrots
  • Leeks
  • Garlic

Preparation:

Just boil the water and pour in all of the ingredients. Make sure to put in the fishballs and tofu first as they tend to cook the longest. Vegetables go in last.

Prepare the kimchi, chopped chillis, chopped onions for garnish and appetizer.
Enjoy!

Gyoza, Chicken Yakitori and Japanese Rice for lunch

Chicken Yakitori and Gyoza

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Thanks to our Japanese friends who visited a few weeks ago, they taught us how to make this delicious and simple meal. I’m a Japanese food lover but never had I tasted a Gyoza this good in any of the Japanese restaurants here in the Metro. The secret recipe I got from them is the best.

Gyoza, Chicken Yakitori and Japanese Rice for lunch

Recipe: Pork Gyoza

Ingredients

  1. 1/3 cup chopped and boiled cabbage
  2. 1/2 lb ground pork
  3. 1 tsp sesame oil
  4. 1/2 tsp garlic salt
  5. 1 tsp grated fresh ginger
  6. 20 gyoza wrappers
  7. 1 Tbsp vegetable oil
  8. For dipping sauce soy sauce, rice vinegar, rayu (chili oil)

Instructions

  1. In a bowl, Combine all ingredients other than oil and mix well by hands.
  2. Place a spoonful of gyoza filling in a gyoza wrapper and put water along the edges of the wrapper by fingers.
  3. Make a semicircle, gathering the front side of the wrapper and sealing the top.
  4. Heat oil in a frying pan. Put gyoza in the pan and fry on high heat until the bottoms become brown.
  5. Turn down the heat to low. Add 1/4 cup water in the pan.
  6. Cover the pan and steam the gyoza on low heat until the water is gone.
  7. Serve gyoza with dipping sauce on the side.
  8. For the dipping sauce, mix a 1:2 ratio of soy sauce to rice vinegar and add some rayu chili oil if you would like.

Cooking time (duration): 60 minutes

Diet (other): High protein

Number of servings (yield): 12

Meal type: lunch

My rating: 5 stars:  ★★★★★ 1 review(

Chicken Yakitori is one of my favorites. Tasty and juicy chicken meat bursts with flavors in my mouth. This would go well with a bowl of steamed rice and some beer.

chicken yakitori

Recipe: Chicken Yakitori

Ingredients

  1. 2 chicken breasts, cut into about 3/4 inch pieces
  2. 1 medium leeks, cut into about 3/4 inch pieces
  3. 1 Tbsp sugar
  4. 2 Tbsp sake
  5. 3 Tbsp mirin
  6. 3 Tbsp soy sauce
  7. Bamboo skewers (soaked in water to prevent

Instructions

  1. Thread chicken and leeks on skewers alternatively Mix sugar, sake, mirin, and soy sauce in a small pan and bring to a boil on high heat.
  2. Stop the heat.
  3. Grill the skewered chicken and leeks over hot coals until the surface of chicken turns white.
  4. Brush the skewered chicken and leeks with the sauce.
  5. Grill until cooked through, brushing the sauce a couple of times.

Diet (other): High protein

Meal type: lunch

My rating: 5 stars:  ★★★★★ 1 review(s)