2021-2-6

Japanese Dashi(Japanese soup stock) and 3 types of Onigiri(Japanese rice ball) Lesson

Welcome to this online "traditional Japanese cuisine" cooking class.

In this class, you will learn about Dashi (Japanese soup stock), and a how to use it for your dishes.

You will also learn and how to make Onigiri(Japanese rice ball) by yourself with some techniques.

Dashi is Japanese unique soup stock, which brings out the flavor of the ingredients. Dashi creates a taste called “umami”, and it’s the core of Japanese food.

Onigir is a famous Japanese food made from white rice formed into triangular or cylindrical shapes and often wrapped in Nori seaweed. The name "onigiri" comes from the verb "nigiru" which means "to press and shape with hands." Onigiri can be the essential food of the picnics, a satisfying little snack for Children, lunch for workers etc....

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・3 Types of Onigiri（Rice ball ）

・Miso-soup (Dashi from scratch)

・Agedashi Tofu(Deep fried Tofu)

*Vegan, Vegetarian menu is available!

2021-1-20

Online local B-class gourmet cooking ”Kei-chan"

Ｗelcome to this online cooking class. This classroom will teach you how to make B-class gourmet foods from all over Japan. This time, it is a B-class gourmet of Hida region in Gifu prefecture , which are popular spots in Japan.

(photo of Gero Hot spring)

The dish is "Kei-chan".

"Kei" means chicken in Japanese. "Chan" is a nickname in Japanese.

According to one theory, the Chinese character "Jan", which stands for soy sauce, has changed.

The reason is that by soaking chicken in an ancient Japanese fermented seasoning, it has the effect of softening the taste as well as stain it.

It is a dish in which chicken is soaked in seasoning for about 3 hours and　stir fry with vegetables.

Since around 1960, local butcher shops and taverns have improved independently, and it has become one of the town revitalization as a local B-class gourmet.

In addition to Kei-chan, we also make rice cooked with mushrooms.

It is a simple dish that you cook with the ingredients and seasoning together.

We also make simple pickles of cucumber.

It looks delicious! Would you like to cook together?

I am waiting for you!

<Menu> ・ Kei-Chan, Cooked rice with mushrooms, Pickles of cucumber

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Make Japanese B-class gourmet with detailed demonstrations by friendly online instructors!
Make dishes using various tools and ingredients.

Included: Included: 1.5 hours online class B gourmet (Kei-chan and 2 other dishes) Cooking class recipe (provided before class)

Exclusion: Materials for making your own tableware and cooking utensils. Meeting place and meeting time: This cooking class is held online. We will send you a class zoom in advance. Prepare the following materials for this class:

Ingredients: chicken thigh, chicken breast, cabbage, bean sprouts, carrot(above Kei-chan).Rice, mushrooms, carrots, tuna (above rice cooked ).Cucumber (above pickled cucumber).

seasoning: miso, soy sauce, sesame oil, cooking liquor, sugar, garlic (Chopped),Granule soup stock (chicken consomme is also acceptable).

2020-12-23

Ramen noodle

Ramen noodle making

Welcome to this online Ramen noodle 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 style Ramen noodle making tips and tips, guiding you as you design your Ramen and toppings. Using fresh, seasonal ingredients,

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 Ramen noodle.

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Ramen noodle /Garic&Ginger/Chicken stock powder/Vegetables
Bean sprouts,Cabbage,corn (as you like)/Ham/Salt & paper/sesame oil/
<soup> Chicken broth powder/Water/Milk/Miso/
<Topping> Boiled egg/Seawead/Green onion

Inclusions:

A 1hour online cute character bento cooking class

Recipes (will be provided before the class)

Exclusions:

Ingredients for creating your own Ramen noodle and 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: -

2020-12-19

Cute Deco sushi class(online)

What can I learn?

I’ll show you how to make a cute deco-sushi in online.

Deco sushi is rolled sushi that made by making parts and assembling.

It’s very cute and also popular on any SNS.

You will learn how to make

・【Pengin】rolled sushi

Inclusions:About 1-hour 30min. online Japanese popular menu cooking class Recipes (will be provided before the class)

Exclusions:Ingredients and kitchen utensils for creating your own dishes.

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:vinegared cooked rice, yukari furikake,nozawana,ceese sousege,seaweed

2020-12-11

Champon Noodles (Nagasaki Ramen)

Thank you for visiting! This class is for people who are interested in local cuisine as well as typical Japanese dishes. As I live in Nagasaki, I’d like to share Nagasaki's local cooking experience with you.

Nagasaki is located at the western tip of Japan. A lot of tourists from all over the world visit Nagasaki and enjoy its historic places, beautiful nature, onsen( hot springs), and local dishes. Surrounded by a bountiful natural environment, it is overflowing with delicious food from both the land and the sea. In its history, Nagasaki was the only open window to the world during “Sakoku”, the period of Japan’s national isolation. Nagasaki acted as a bridge between Japan and other countries. Out of the exchange between different cultures, a unique culture, which was called “Champon Culture”, was born. “Champon” means “mixing various things” and it is reflected in the traditional Nagasaki style of cuisine, too.

Champon noodle is one of the most popular regional dishes of Nagasaki and is well known all over Japan. It’s a kind of noodle soup simmered with various ingredients such as pork, seafood, and vegetables. It's similar to Ramen, but Champon is healthier because there are a lot of nutritious ingredients in it. The tip on making it so delicious is its soup. Originally, the soup is made from pork bones, simmered for a long time. In this class, however, I’ll show and tell you how to make it much more quickly and easily.

Please join us and enjoy your online-trip to Nagasaki through this cooking experience!! Hope to see you!

2020-11-12

Soybean Paste-Flavored Noodles "Miso-Nikomi-Udon"

"Miso-Nikomi-Udon" is one of the typical noodle dishes in Aichi. This dish is made by boiling Udon noodles in Miso-style soup and topped with chicken, leek, and Kamaboko. This miso-made soup has a different taste from "Misoshiru", and it becomes very tasty just by adding "a secret seasoning". Hot Miso-Nikomi-Udon simmered in a clay pot for one person is so delicious not only in the cold winter but also in the hot summer! In this class, you start by taking the soup stock from scratch. And what is "a secret seasoning"? I'll teach you how to make miso-style soup with rich flavor.

Inclusions:

1.5-hour online class recipes(will be provided before the class).

Exclusions:

Ingredients for creating your own dishes and 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.

2020-11-5

Online local B-class gourmet cooking ”Gohei Mochi"

Welcome to this online cooking class. This classroom will teach you how to make B-class gourmet foods from all over Japan. This time, it is a B-class gourmet of Hida Takayama and Shirakawa-go, which are popular spots in Japan.

It is a dish using rice. Make two kinds of sauces and enjoy each taste. In addition, we will prepare egg soup using a simple bonito-based soup stock.

Learn about the ingredients, share cooking tips, and step by step how to make everything with local cookware. It only takes about 40 minutes to prepare a dish. I want you to learn recipes that are easy to make with seasonings used at home. When you're done, eat the food you cooked together.

<Menu> ・ Gohei mochi (walnut sauce, soy sauce sauce), Soup with Beaten Egg

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Make Japanese B-class gourmet with detailed demonstrations by friendly online instructors!
Make dishes using various tools and ingredients.

Included:

1.5 hours online class B gourmet (Gohei mochi) cooking class

Recipe (provided before class)

Exclusion:

Materials for making your own tableware and cooking utensils.

Meeting place and meeting time:

This cooking class is held online. We will send you a class zoom in advance.

Prepare the following materials for this class:

Ingredients: 1 person ・ Rice: 600g (2 cups of rice before cooking) ・ Walnut 60g ・ Granule soup stock ・ 1 egg ・ Spinach 50g ・ 8 disposable chopsticks

Sugar / salt / soy sauce / sake / miso / potato starch or cornstarch

2020-11-1

Musashino pork soup Udon

Japanese udon is wheat pasta made in thick strips. It is white in color. Musashino area of Tokyo has long been famous for various soba and udon noodles. Among them, Musashino pork soup udon is a menu unique to this area. People usually eat udon in pork broth. In this class, we knead the flour and make udon noodle. At this time, you step on the dough with your feet and knead it. This method has been handed down from ancient time in Japan. The pork broth is made from dashi stock. You are welcome to participate with your children.

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Make udon from flour. Step on the dough with your feet and knead it. You may hesitate to step on food with your feet, but since it is put in a plastic bag, there is no hygienical problem. This is a very exciting experience.
Learn how to make dashi stock, which is indispensable for Japanese food. Use the dashi stock to make pork broth.
You can enjoy this cooking class with alone, your family, friends or partner. You cannot experience it anywhere else

☆Please feel free to contact me, press the REQUEST or CONTACT button when you have any questions or requests such as schedule. ☆After booking, I will send you a recipe, so take a look at it for the utensils and detailed ingredients you need.

Inclusions: About 1-hour 30min. online Japanese popular menu cooking class Recipes (will be provided before the class)

Exclusions: Ingredients and kitchen utensils for creating your own dishes.

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:

＜Ingredients＞　(serves 2)

200g Udon flour (medium-strength flour = all-purpose flour) If not available, 100g weak flour (plain flour) and 100g strong flour (bread flour), 10g salt, 120ml water, about 30g of cornstarch (or medium-strength flour ) for dusting the dough, 5cm konbu (kelp), 10g katsuobushi flakes (bonito flakes) if you don't have kelp and dried bonito, use 2g of dashi powder, 2tbs soy sauce, 2tbs mirin (or 1 tbs sugar if not available), 200g thin slice of pork belly, 1/2 green onion (or 1/2 onion if not available)

☆Please contact me if you need any advice.

＜Kitchen tool＞

1 large ball, 1 small ball, fine sieve, 1 plastic bag, 2 extra large plastic bag, kneading board (or a large cutting board if not available), cutting board, kitchen knife, 1 large deep pot, 1 pot, strainer, 1Tbsp, chopsticks, 1rolling pin, 1tray or 1plate

2020-10-28

Shrimp Tempura Riceball "Tenmusu "and "Misoshiru"

Tenmusu is a rice ball with deep fried shrimp tempura inside and wrapped Nori.
There are various rice balls all over Japan, but Tenmusu is a little smaller so it's easy to eat. Recommended for breakfast, lunch, and midnight snacks so on!

And in this class, we will make Misoshiru(Miso-soup) as the first step of miso activity!

If you have a Japanese Grocery Store or an Asian supermarket in your neighborhood, look for Akadashi Miso. If not, any kind of miso is fine.

Inclusions:

1.5-hour online class recipes(will be provided before the class).

Exclusions:

Ingredients for creating your own dishes and 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.

2020-10-12

Zoom - Beef Bowl Donburi Class

Beef Bowl Donburi - Gyudon - A bowl of rice topped with seasoned beef

Let's cook together!

This is a very simple, quick and easy but yummy Japanese dish. I will guide you on how to cook and teach you some tips. Also, we will make some pickles at the same time. This pickles give you sourness and make it a good balance for this dish.

Beef Bowl consists of a bowl of steamed rice topped with thinly sliced beef and tender onion, simmered in a sweet and savoury dashi broth seasoned with soy sauce and mirin.

This cooking class will be held online. Please note that the time listed is in Japan Standard Time. After you book the class, you’ll receive an email with a link and details on how to join.

Looking forward to hearing from you!