Contents: Fascinating Facts About Fu History of Fu A Variety of Fu Enhance The Flavor of Your Everday Dishes! Eat Fu to Stay Healthy Fu Recipes Dashimaki Tamago (Japanese Rolled Omlete) Recipe Kuruma-fu no Nimono (Simmered Kuruma-fu Dish) Recipe Fu Chanple (Stir-fried fu) Recipe Fascinating Facts About Fu Fu is not bread, nor is it a cracker. It isn’t a snack food, nor is it a staple food. Although it is made from wheat flour, you don’t see fu in the flour-consuming nations of Europe or North America. Fu is a uniquely Japanese specialty. Just like koyadofu (freeze-dried tofu), miso (fermented soybean paste), katsuo-bushi (dried fish flakes), niboshi jako (dried tiny fish), sushi and soba (buckwheat noodles), there is nothing […]
Zakkoku has become increasingly popular these days. Cooking regular rice with a blend of zakkoku can boost its taste and nutritional value substantially. Eating zakkoku rice can help you feel great and stay healthy every day. Just combine organic brown rice or white rice with a variety of zakkoku. Proper blending is the key to delicious zakkoku rice. Assorted zakkoku packets are also available. Contents: What Is Zakkoku? The Significance of Zakkoku Rice Kinds of Zakkoku Zakkoku Recipe What Is Zakkoku? Zakkoku is a collective term for grains of the grass family that bear small fruit seeds. There are other types of grains with similar fruit seeds that aren’t part of the grass family. These grains are called ruiji zakkoku, […]
Contents: What is Okonomiyaki? Okonomiyaki restaurants Okonomiyaki sauce Okonomiyaki provides balanced nutrients Make Hiroshima-style okonomiyaki at home! (Okonomiyaki recipe) Other Styles of Okonomiyaki Osaka-style Okonomiyaki Recipe Easy Okonomiyaki Kits What is Okonomiyaki? It’s a pancake made with water / egg / flour batter mixed with squid, beef or pork as well as cabbage or any vegetable of your choice. It’s cooked on a heated teppan grill and served with sauce and toppings such as aonori (seaweed flakes). Okonomiyaki can be roughly divided into three types: Hiroshima-style, Osaka-style and Tokyo-style (a.k.a monja-yaki). What makes the Hiroshima-style more distinctive than the other two is that the ingredients are stacked upon one another in layers. In Hiroshima-style okonomiyaki, a large helping of cabbage […]