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Japanese Cooking with Sabine
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Basic Ingredients
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Soy sauce, or shoyu.
Japanese soya sauce tends to be thinner/lighter than a lot of what
you may find. Even here in Japan, I use Kikkoman though!
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Mirin. This is a sweeter
cooking sake (rice wine). You can find this at specialty or Asian
grocery stores. T&T in Vancouver or Richmond are good places to
start. In Toronto, I know of a Japanese grocery on Queen St West. Way
west - past most of the cutesy shops - it is on the north side of
Queen (by Ossington somewhere), beside an Oyster place. It is a
common ingredient to Japanese cooking though, so you should be able
to find it at other places.
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Rice vinegar
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Cooking Sake (rice wine). Or
just buy the cheapest bottle of normal sake.
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Dashi. This is basically
fish broth. I will include the recipe to make it yourself later (very
easy), or you might be able to find it as a powder or in teabags if
you look in Japanese shops. This is in EVERYTHING, but if you don`t
eat fish, you can make a yummy dashi from dried shiitake mushrooms
and/or dried konbu (kelp).
Other Common Ingredients
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Miso. Here, you can get
white miso (shiro miso), red miso (aka miso), or deep red miso (don`t
know the name). I think the red one is the most versatile (it seems
to be a combination of the other two), but people in the Nagoya area
swear by the deep red one, and those in Kansai swear by the white
stuff. Whatever you can get will do! The colour of miso is like a
rusty sand. It is a paste and often sold in tubs or sealed bags. I
used to find miso at safeway, so it shouldn`t be too hard to pick up!
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Sesame seeds. Just get the
plain white ones - any toasting or grinding can be done at home!
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Sesame oil. I LOVE the
flavour of this!!!
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Different forms of tofu in all
shapes and sizes. It doesn`t keep that long, so I tend to
freeze mine if I don`t need it to remain delicate. Freezing it will
make it chewier and spongier and removes much of the water - which is
good if you want it to resemble meat!
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