Monday, January 20, 2014

Takikomi Gohan


This is one of my favorite kind of flavored rice! Takikomi means to cook with rice in a rice cooker. So you just need to prepare what you want to add to the rice and add it as you cook rice. Gohan means rice in Japanese.  You could put more ingredients, but this is what I had at home so it is a little less than how my mom usually makes, but it is very tasty!


Takikomi Gohan

2 cups rice
150g chicken tights
30g carrots
1 tsp vinegar
A small bowl full of water
30 gobo (burdock root)
*2 cups dashi soup - you can use fish flavor dashi powder
*40cc soy sauce
*40cc mirin (rice wine)

Preparation: Wash rice and leave them in a strainer to let it dry until all the other ingredients are ready to cook.

1. cut chicken tights, carrots really small.
2. Peel and Shred gobo. It gets brown very quickly so add a little bit of vinegar with water in a bowl and soak shredded gobo to prevent changing its color.
2. Mix all the " * " ingredients in a pan. Add the chopped ingredients and bring to boil for 2-3 minutes.
3. Turn off the heat, let it cool down to the room temperature.
4. Put rice in the rice cooker. Use a strainer to separate the cooked ingredients and the soup.
5. Pour in the soup over rice. Make the rice flat, and add the cooked ingredients. DO NOT MIX.
6. Cook in the rice cooker like normal.

Saturday, January 18, 2014

Easy Tandoori Chicken


This tandoori chicken doesn't require too much spices but tastes really good! Right when my husband came home and open the door, he could smell the yummy tandoori chicken and told me how much he appreciates me for cooking for him. So that made me happy as well :)


Easy Tandoori Chicken

[Season]
1 chicken breast
1/2 salt
1 clove grated garlic
1 tsp grated ginger

[Marinate]
6 TBS plain yogurt
1 tsp curry powder
2 tsp paprika powder
1/2 tsp chili powder
1 tsp salt
pepper to taste
1 TBS lemon juice



1. Cute the chicken and season them in the plastic bag. Leave it for 5-10 minutes.
2. Add all the marinating ingredients and leave for at least 30 minutes - 2 hours in the fridge.
3. Heat the oil in the pan. Get rid of extra marinate sauce and cook the chicken both sides on the pan.

Saturday, January 4, 2014

Roasted Ham Pie Rolls


We bought a big roasted ham for Christmas party and had a lot of left over. (it tasted so good but it just was so much!) We ate it itself but thought we should try something else with it as well. My husband loved these pie rolls and it is very easy to make because I used the pre-made pie crust!


Roasted Ham Pie Rolls

1 sheet of pre-made pie crust
2 cups shredded roasted ham
1/4 can Tomato paste
1 cup cheddar cheese
Mayonaise to taste
Pepper to taste


1. Defrost the pie sheet if it is frozen
2. Shred the roasted ham with fork
3. Spread tomato paste on the pie crust sheet, then topping with ham, cheese, mayo and pepper
4. Roll it and cut them
5. Bake at 400°F for 40 minutes