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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)


 

Fun Champorado & Tasty Bulalo

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Food ideas to match a rainy day.

chocolatey and creamy goodness of champorado paired with brewed coffee is a good start. Have a bowl of fun champorado for breakfast while you’re channel hopping with your television or simply getting lazy on your couch in a beautiful rainy morning.

champorado

And of course, a hot bowl of bulalo (beef shank and knee cap broth) for lunch. This will surely make your day.

Breakfast Festival

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While reading your morning paper, have some herbed baguette with liver pate and cream cheese. Don’t forget your freshly brewed coffee for the coffee lovers to give your mornings a great start.

herbed baguette with liver pate and cream cheese

Tired of bacon and pancakes? The local food will never fail you. This is one of my favorite breakfasts since I was a child and truly, simplicity can be very satisfying. Hot fried rice, fried tuyo or dried fish, scrambled eggs, fresh slices of tomatoes and lettuce and some spicy vinegar to go with your tuyo.

 

fried tuyo, scrambled eggs and fried rice

For those who are not big fans of fish, have some fried rice, sunny side up and pork tocino dipped in spicy vinegar. Mornings are wonderful.

pork tocino