How to make Easy & Delicious Japanese Curry Rice

How to make Easy & Delicious Japanese Curry Rice

Ayu-chan’s Japanese Curry Rice

Ingredients for 3-4 servings:

1. A half box of Curry Sauce Mix 8.8 oz

2. 1 Onion (Chop)

3. 1 Carrot (Chop)

4. 1 Potato (Chop)

4. A pound of Pork, Beef or Chicken (I prefer Sliced Pork.) (Cut into 1 inch size)

5. 4 cloves of Garlic (Mince)

6. 1 TB Spoon of minced Ginger

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1. Saute chopped Onion untill light brown. Add Garlic and Ginger. Saute all together untill it starts smelling good. =)

2. Add chopped carrot. And add the meat. Saute until the meat is cooked.

3. Add little salt & pepper.

4. Add 3 1/2 cups of water.

♥ It adds an extra nice flavor if you put some bay leaves.

5. Bring it to boil. And cook with medium heat until tender.

6. Add chopped potato. Cook until tender.

7. Add a half box of Curry Sauce. (Save other half for another time.)

8. Cook with low heat for 45 min.

♥ It would be more delicious if you add some of your favorite spicy sauce.

*Make sure to cook some rice.

Serve over rice and ready to eat!!

Itadakimasu♥

Dinner 07.28.08

I wanted to cook tonight, but I wasn’t feeling well..

So we decided to go to our neighborhood restaurant, PARS for dinner.

We ordered a Koobideh Kabob and a Hummus.

But the Hummus was a little sour and I didn’t enjoy it.. Hummus is good when it’s creamy and you can taste sweetness of peas.

The Kabob was juicy and really good. =)

Arabashiri Seasonal Sake

Recently, my wonderful girlfriend took me on a dinner date to a very nice restaurant in Redondo Beach. The restaurant in name is Japonica Dining. An Izakaya style restaurant, with a great selection of Sakes. I personally have a somewhat limited knowledge of sake. My favorite sakes being typically 2-3 stand bys that I can usually find at most good japanese restaurants (Hakkaisan, Otokoyama, Takenotsuyu). While at this particular Izakaya restaurant I was able to partake in quite a few different sakes. The manager, Yasu, was very gracious in making sure to provide a sampler of sakes he thought I might enjoy, and would provide with me a full glass once I chose from one on of the many samples he provided.

As we all know, sake is a rice wine, made from different kinds of rice from different japanese prefectures. Each prefecture has a different flavor based on the rice they happen to grow there, unbeknown to me was that some sake brands actually mix two kinds of rice to come up with a even more unique flavor to their sake..

This brings me all the way back to the Arabashiri Seasonal Sake (a brand, but also in general to mean “Seasons First Run Sake”)…I have/had never known sake to have somewhat of a fruit sweetness of flavor to it, but somehow this particular sake has captured that feeling. It seemed itself more of a dessert sake, to finish a meal, and enjoy what one just had, rather than a meal sake, something to try with seafoods or meat and poultry. Please do yourself the favor if you happen to have the chance, I would highly recommend taking the time to visit this restaurant to enjoy this sake before its gone from their selection, seeing as its only a seasonal sake that we were told is only available for a short time.

Unagi (Freshwater Eel)

Unagi is known for summer food in Japan. It’s believed to have lots of nutrition and good for health.

Unagi and Anago!?

I have never had Unagi(Freshwater Eel) Sushi in Japan. I learned it here in U.S. We eat Anago(Sea Eel) Sushi thou. I guess Anago is hard to get in U.S., so they use Unagi for Sushi instead. I love Unagi, so I have no problem eating it any ways. But if you love Unagi and had a chance to go to Japan, please try “Una-Ju” at Unagii-ya (Specialized Unagi Restaurant). Usually they only have a couple of things on the menu. The major thing is “Una-Ju”. It’s a big cut of Grilled Unagi on top of rice in a box. How they grill Unagi is amazing! They use special sauce and grill Unagi with special charcoal.

I enjoyed Unagi with my BF tonight. And it reminded me of my summer Unagi memory in Japan. =)