Traditional Japanese Cuisine with a chef
I’ll teach you how to make washoku—traditional Japanese cuisine—and together we'll cook four delicious, easy-to-make dishes. First, we’ll prepare dashi, a simple seaweed-based stock that is the cornerstone of our country's cooking. Using seasonal ingredients and dashi stock, we’ll make a home-style entrée, side, soup, and dessert.
I’ll explain the ingredients, share cooking tips, and provide step-by-step instruction on how to make everything with local cooking tools. Each dish only takes about 20 minutes to create. There are plenty of complicated and time-consuming Japanese recipes, but I want you to learn ones that you'll use back home. When we’re finished, we’ll eat the food we prepared together.
＜Menu＞・Rolled Beef with Okra・Saikyo-yaki of Salmon
・Rolled Egg（Dashimaki-Tamago)・Miso-soup・Rice ball (Onigiri)
New Year Celebration by cooking OSECHI
Osechi is specially-prepared New Year's celebration dishes to be eaten during the first three days of January. You can enjoy osechi-making at any time of year in my class. I’ll teach you how to cook four typical, delicious, easy-to-make dishes. First, we’ll prepare dashi, a simple seaweed-based stock that is the cornerstone of our country's cooking. Using seasonal ingredients and dashi stock, we’ll make osechi. I’ll explain the ingredients, share cooking tips, and provide step-by-step instructions on how to make everything with local cooking tools. I’ll explain the traditions of New Year's and the reasons for osechi cooking. Finally I’ll introduce the New Year's ceremony.
Sushi Cooking
I’ll teach you how to make many kind of "Sushi Menus"
like - "Rolled Sushi" "Chirashi Sushi" "Inari Sushi"
We'll cook four delicious, easy-to-make dishes. First, we’ll prepare dashi, a simple seaweed-based stock that is the cornerstone of our country's cooking. Using seasonal ingredients and dashi stock, we’ll make Sushi menus.
I’ll explain the ingredients, share cooking tips, and provide step-by-step instruction on how to make everything with local cooking tools. There are plenty of complicated and time-consuming Japanese recipes, but I want you to learn ones that you'll use back home. When we’re finished, we’ll eat the food we prepared together.
<Menu> ・Rolled Shusi ・Savory egg custard ・Miso-Soup
・White sesame pudding ・Soup-stock
Character Sushi Making (Deco-Sushi)
We'll make Character Sushi (Deco-Sushi) at Yotsuya where is like a secret hideaway! Then we'll make " Deco-sushi" by pushing several layers of sushi and rice into a mold to make an intricate creation.
This will be an experience of making a very cute chara-sushi decorated with seaweed and cheese easily. It will be too cute to be eat. It is a new attempt to let foreigners get connections with Japanese culture through Japanese-style food. Hope you can have a fun character making the experience on this occasion.
Chara-ben (Character Lunch Box) Making
Japanese "Bento" is popular as "BENTO" overseas. "Chara-ben", a kind of bento which shapes rice and side dishes into manga and anime characters, is a unique culture of animation advanced country Japan, attracting attentions all over the world. In this plan, we gonna introduce you how to make a Chara-ben into popular characters among foreigners such as Kumamon and Totoro in English. This will be an experience of making a very cute chara-ben decorated with seaweed and cheese easily. It will be too cute to be ate.
Online Cute Character Bento Making Class
Welcome to this online character bento making experience, an activity that’s fun for all ages and uses easily accessible ingredients. Via an online video chatting platform, I will teach you my Japanese bento making tips and tips, guiding you as you design your characters and put together a colorful and delicious meal. Using fresh, seasonal ingredients, we’ll shape and decorate cartoon faces. Then, we’ll take photos of our edible masterpieces, to show off to the world. I will be broadcasting this online cooking class from my home in Japan, so please note that the time listed is in JST (Japan Standard Time). After you book the class, you’ll receive an email with a link and details on how to join. I will also send you a recipe, so please prepare the ingredients in advance. This online cooking class is a great activity to enjoy at home and anyone with the ingredients can participate. The ingredients used for this workshop are all simple and should be easy to find; you may even have most of them in your kitchen right now! Learn a new skill during this time, and impress your family and friends with your Instagrammable cartoon bentos!
Highlights:
1.Follow along with a detailed demonstration from your friendly online instructor and create bento box artwork!
2.Use a variety of tools and ingredients to build your cute character design
3.Find out about kyaraben and bento box lunch culture in Japan
Inclusions:
A 1.5-hour online cute character bento cooking class
Recipes (will be provided before the class)
Exclusions:
Ingredients for creating your own kyaraben bento box
Cooking tools
Meeting Point and Meeting Time:
This cooking class will be held online. I will send you the ZOOM for our class in advance.
Please prepare the following ingredients for this class:
- 1 cup white rice
- 2 eggs
- 3 small sausages
- Boiled broccoli
- Boiled ootato
- Nori (seaweed paper)
- Green seaweed flakes or parsley flakes
- Slices of cheese
- Long, thin pasta for salad
- Soy sauce, sugar, salt, oil, ketchup, mayonnaise
- Bento box (if you have one)
- Tapioca straws, scissors, tweezers, nori punch (if you have one)
