Recipes from Okinawa

[letabug]

Everywhere we live I usually try to find a cookbook from there so I can always make "local" foods. I am having trouble here b/c I can't read anything that resembles a cook book. So can somebody please have pitty on me and give me some recipes?

[Sex Wax]

Japanese Taco Rice

2 cups white rice
1 tablespoon lite soy sauce
1 cup finely shredded lettuce
1 1/2 cups shredded cheddar cheese
8 ounces sour cream
8 ounces salsa, thick and chunky
salt and pepper to taste
1 teaspoon garlic salt
1 teaspoon onion salt
1 pound ground beef
1 large tomato, diced

Begin cooking rice, according to package directions. Brown hamburger. Add soy sauce, garlic and onion salt, salt and pepper to taste. Drain off grease. Add cooked rice to the beef, mixing well. Cook mixture about 5 minutes on low.

In separate bowls, layer beef/rice, cheese, lettuce, tomato, sour cream and salsa.

Tips: Make sure you get all the grease out. Make sure the rice is soft and sticky!
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[letabug]

Yay! I didn't even think about Taco Rice!!! Keep em coming!

[Sex Wax]

Yakitori is usually skewered like a kabob. Yakitori is a great appetizer which goes with beer and sake. A common vegetable to grill with chicken is negi. Yakitori skewered with negi is called negima and is a popular kind of yakitori in Japan. Also, there are mainly two kinds of flavors: tare and shio. Tare indicates basting sauce, such as teriyaki sauce. Shio means salt in Japanese. This is a recipe to make tare-flavored yakitori.

INGREDIENTS:
2 chicken breasts
1 medium negi
1 tbsp sugar
2 tbsp sake
3 tbsp mirin
3 tbsp soy sauce
*Bamboo skewers (soaked in water to prevent burning)

PREPARATION:
Cut chicken breasts into bite-sized pieces. Cut negi into 1 inch lengths. Skewer the chicken and negi in alternating order. To make teriyaki sauce, mix sugar, sake, mirin, and soy sauce in a small bowl.

Grill the skewered chicken over hot coals, basting with teriyaki sauce until the chicken is cooked.
Makes 2 servings

[Sex Wax]

Soba (there are like different recipes on every corner)

Ingredients
2 chicken breasts, skinless and boneless
1 c water
1 tbsp each: soy sauce, hoisin sauce, oyster sauce, sugar
1 package buckwheat noodles, cooked according to package, drained
1/2 c carrots, thinly sliced, bias cut
3 stalks of green onions, bias cut
1/2 c shredded cabbage
1 garlic clove, chopped
1 inch grated ginger
Slurry: 2 tbsp water + 1 tbsp cornstarch
Black pepper, to taste
Toasted sesame seeds, garnish
Chopped cilantro, garnish
Sesame oil
Chopped cilantro

Directions
In a medium pan, heat water and chicken with seasonings (soy sauce, hoisin sauce, oyster sauce and sugar.) Let it boil and turn down heat. Cover and simmer for 15 minutes. Remove chicken and thinly shred meat . Reserve seasoned broth.
Cook noodles in boiling water for 5 minutes. Drain and set aside.
In a large heated saute pan, add some oil and saute together carrots, green onions, cabbage, ginger and garlic for 2 minutes.
Add shredded chicken to the vegetables and saute for 1 minute. Taste and season with black pepper.
Pour slurry and stir until desired thickness.
Add noodles and gently stir mixture.
To serve, sprinkle noodles with sesame seeds, cilantro, and a drop of sesame oil.

[Sex Wax]

Pork Goya Chanpuru Recipe

Okinawa is the southmost prefecture of Japan. Goya is a dark-green and bumpy gourd which has been commonly eaten in Okinawa. Bitter gourd is called goya in Okinawan dialect. Because of the bitterness, it's said that eating goya helps to beat the heat in summer, and goya dishes are often eaten during the summer. Goya chanpuru is a typical Okinawa dish. Chanpuru indicates stir-fried dishes. Goya skin is very bitter but is rich in vitamin C. Adding eggs in goya chanpuru softens the bitterness.

INGREDIENTS:
1 goya (bitter gourd)
1 block firm tofu
1/4 pound thinly sliced pork
2 tsps soy sauce
2 tsps sake (rice wine)
1/2 tsp salt
2 tsps vegetable oil

PREPARATION:
Cut a gourd in half lengthwise. Remove seeds with a spoon. Slice the goya thinly and sprinkle some salt over them. Wash the goya slices and squeeze to remove the water. Wrap tofu with paper towel and place it on a cutting board.
Put another cutting board or a plate on top the tofu to remove liquid from tofu. Heat vegetable oil in a frying pan. Saute bite-sized pork meat. Sprinkle salt over pork. Crumble tofu in to large pieces and add in the frying pan and saute with pork. Stop the heat and place them on a plate. Heat some vegetable oil in a frying pan, and saute goya slices in high heat. Put cooked tofu and pork in the frying pan and saute with goya. Pour beaten eggs over the ingredients and mix. Put soy sauce and sake over the ingredients and mix quickly. Stop the heat.
*Makes 4 servings

[Sex Wax]

Okinawa Sweet Potatoes

Okinawa Sweet Potatoes. Sony, a food enthusiast from Kaua'i tells me that a little old lady at a grocery store pointed out some dark purple potatoes to him one day and told him how to make this popular Hawaiian recipe. Sony insists that you use sea salt for this recipe, or preferably Hawaiian sea salt, if you can find it!

INGREDIENTS:
3-4 purple Okinawa sweet potatoes
about 1/3 cup coconut milk
4 cloves minced garlic
1/3 tsp sea salt, to taste
dash pepper to taste

PREPARATION:
Peel the potatoes and boil in water for about 45 minutes, until soft. Okinawa sweet potatoes take longer than regular potatoes to cook, so make sure they are quite soft.
Drain the water and mash with coconut milk.

Add more coconut milk until desired consistency is reached. Add garlic and sea salt and pepper.

[okisurf]

Thanks Sexwax, Ive made this recipe "Hawaiian salt" and all except for the coconut milk. Great idea! I know what im going to try next time.

By the way best Hawaiian salt is from Kaua'i so she would know.

[TheLastDon]

Try this thread.

http://www.japanupdate.com/forum/showthread.php?t=2621&highlight=cooking

[Sex Wax]

Thanks Sexwax, Ive made this recipe "Hawaiian salt" and all except for the coconut milk. Great idea! I know what im going to try next time.

By the way best Hawaiian salt is from Kaua'i so she would know.

Anything with coconut milk and sea salt rocks ! I like cooking shrimp in coconut milk