Onion & Kale Kakiage

I am trying to develop kale recipes. Kale is new for me. In Japan it is know as an ingredient of a healthy drink, but it is not popular to eat. In fact, I haven't seen it at a market. I have lived in Brazil 1 year and I just started buying it recently. J's mom told me that it is sold in the U.S. I would like to have more kale recipes before going back to the U.S.

Onion & Kale Kakiage is very simple and easy, which is usual for my recipes. Kakiage is fried mixture of several kinds of vegetable pieces. I add garlic and it tastes good for beer!

Ingredients : serve 2 - 3

1/2 middle onion - slice

1 leaf kale - shred

1 clove garlic - chop into pieces

3 tbs flour

3 tbs water

salt

Preparation :

1. Mix all ingredients

2. Scoop up #1 by a spoon and deep-fry until getting light brown

3. Picked up from the oil and drain on a paper towel

4. Sprinkle salt as you like

Phantom Mustard Pork

Why phantom? Because of the ingredients. I use leftover beer to make this. It is RARE for J and me not to finish beer. If it shall happen, we might be sick or get drunk and fall asleep before drinking up. So, I don't know when I have a chance to make it next time. To remember, I will keep the recipe.

Ingredients : serve 1 - 2

pork - slice in 1 cm

1/2 onion - slice against fiber

1 tbs mustard

beer - 200cc

a little salt

Preparation :

1. Stirfry pork and onion with salt

2. Add beer and mustard

3. Stew for 10 minutes

Note : I used ham this time. Chicken or beef can work for this recipe.

Pot-au-feu

Did you buy a head of cabbage and are you at loss to use it up? Are there many pieces of various vegetables in the fridge? Try Pot-au-feu. You can cook and clear leftovers of vegetable in the fridge up at same time. It is easy. Add some whole-grain mustard if you like. It would look gorgeous!

Ingredients : serve 2 - 3

4 - 6 chicken drum sticks or wings

1/2 cabbage - cut half

1 middium carrot - cut into 4 - 6

2 middium potato - cut in to 4 - 6

1 chiken buillon

1 bay leaf

salt & grained black pepper

water

Preparations :

1. Put all ingredients in the pot

2. Pour water over them till they are just barely covered

3. Put the pot on high heat untill boiling

4. Turn to low heat and cook more than 30 minutes

Note :

The ingredient is simple on this recipe. As I mentioned, you can add any vegetables. I like celery for this recipe.

Separate fried rice

I named this, "Separate" fried rice. But it looks regular fried rice eventually. I season rice and other ingredients in separate. Here's the recipe.






Ingredient : serve 2

160cc rice
1 cup (200cc) water
1 cube chicken bouillon - smash
1/4 middle onion - chop
1/3 middle onion - chop
8-10 celery leaf - chop
1 clove garlic - chop
2 red hot chillipepper - chop
5 almond - crash
1 chicken brest - dice
a little garlic salt
a little pepper
a little olive oil


Preparations :

1. Wash rice and drain well
2. Put chicken bouillon, water and #1 in the pot on high heat until boiling
3. Turn to very low heat and put the lid on. A heavy lid is preferred. Cook 10 min. Never open the lid during cooking.
4. Turn off the heat and wait for another 10 minutes. Never open the lid during wating.
5. Put olive oile, garlic and red hot chillipepper in a pan and heat
6. When it smells good, add other ingredients and stir-fry
7. When chicken and vegetables are cooked, turn off the heat and mix rice in the pan.

Grilled omlet

Ingredients : serves 2 - 3
1 middle carrot - cut thin
1 middle onion - slice
1 green pepper - sliver
1 zucchini - cut it into round slices
3 egg - whisk
1/4 cup milk
a little salt and pepper
1 tbs ketchup
some mount parmesan cheese - grate
some mount provolone - slice some pieces


Preparations :
1. Pre-heat oven 200 C and spread oil or butter on a heat-resistant plate
2. Stir-fry carrot, onion, green pepper and zucchini with oil. When it is cooked, add ketchup and off the heat
3. Mix egg, milk and parmesan cheese
4. Put #2 in #3 and mix and Pour it into the plate and sprinkle provolone on
5. Cook it in the oven for 30 minutes

Note :
Other vegetables also works. Add miced meat make the omlet taste better. The cheese doesn't need to be those kinds above. The cheese from the bag for pizza would be easier.

Sanma Kabayaki Donburi

It was shockingly good. It is teriyaki fish from a can and onion on the rice in a bowl. I had been thinking how to use this can of fish, which was sent from my mom in Japan. I don't eat food from a can that much, except a can of tuna. I made this meal as a trial. It was way better than I expected. It is nothing special, but I am publishing this to remind me. I have to ask my mom to send more of those cans!

Ingredients : serves 2
1 can of Sanma Kabayaki(Teriyaki Pacific Saury)
1 middium onion - slice it thin
1 sheet nori(laver)
a little shichimi(Japanese seasoning ; 7 kinds chilli peppers)
1 tbs cooking sake
1 tbs soy sauce
1 tbs suger
1 tsp dashi(fish broth) powder
1/3 cup water

Preparation :
1. Put all ingredients, except nori and shichimi, in the pot and mix.
2. Put the lid on the pot and cook on low heat
3. When the onion gets tender, add the fish. It is to make the fish warmer and you don't need to stir.
4. Serve rice in a bowl and put ripped nori on the rice.
5. Put onion and fish on #4 and sprinkle shichimi on it.

Onion pot soup

Onion soup tastes good, but it takes an unbelievably lont time to cook onion until they're brown. So do you give up and are you going to open the can of soup? Give me just 15 min. My onion soup is very easy. Here's my recipe and I arranged it and made Onion pot soup.

Ingredients : serves 2

1 small onion : slice thin and freeze

olive oil

2 cups water

1 cube chicken bouillon

your favorite cheese(I use provalone)

pie sheet

Preparation :

1. Fry frozen onion with olive oil in the pot

2. As onion gets brown, it takes about 10 min., add water and chicken bouillon

3. Cook for 5 min. - Onion soup is ready to serve!

4. Pour onion soup in the remekins and cool it off

5. Pre-heat oven 220 C

6. Put a slice of cheese on the soup and cover the pie sheet on the remekins

7. Make the pie sheet crusty in the oven

Note : The most important part of this recipe is to use frozen onions. If you use fresh onions, it takes you a long time to cook.