Buta No Shoga Yaki- Pork Chop with Ginger and Soy Sauce

Marinate it over night. Make it easy weekday dinner!

Ready in: 10 minutes

Ingredients for two:

<Prepare in a bag>

6 pork chops

2 teaspoons of ginger, minced

2 teaspoons of garlic, minced

2 tablespoons of soy sauce

2 tablespoons of honey

Step 1: Marinate pork over night.

Step 1: Cook it in a pan.

Kohcha Buta- Tea Boiled Pork

My friend brought this dish to a potluck party. The taste was amazing! The meat was so tender and full of taste. I could even smell the nice aroma of earl grey tea! I decided to try to make it. It was successful on my first attempt!!

Ready in: 2 days and 35 minutes, including 2 days of marinating

Ingredients for four:

1kg of pork tenderloin

6 bags of earl grey tea bags

In a pot:

400 ml of water

100 ml of soy sauce

100 ml of white vinegar

Equipment:

Large pot

Small pot

Large ziplock bag

Step 1: In a large pot, boil water and throw tea bags in to make very very strong tea.

Step 2: Remove the tea bags, and place the meat in. Lower the heat to medium to simmer it for 30-50 minutes. Add water to cover the meat. Cut the meat into a half if it doesn't fit in the pot.

Step 3: In a small pot, warm up water, soy sauce and vinegar togeter. Put it in a ziplock.

Step 4: Put the cooked meat in the bag. Throw out the tea. After cooling it down, leave it in the fridge for 2-3 days.

Step 5: Cut the meat as thin as possible.

Step 6: Eat it on a salad, in a sandwich, on ramen noodles, or make gravy with the marinating sauce.



Subuta- Veggies and Pork in Sweet’n Sour Gravy

 Sour food keeps you energetic in summer!

Did you know that you can deep fry food with only ¼ cup of oil?

Ready in: 45 minutes

Ingredients for two:
Any veggies in your fridge such as mushrooms, onions, peppers, and carrots
(You can also try some Chinese vegetables such as lily bulbs and bamboo shoot. They are usually in a can.)
1 tablespoon of potato starch+3 tablespoons of water to thicken the sauce at the end
2 tablespoons of potato starch for meat before frying it
¼ cup of oil for deep fry

<Pork Marinade - Prepare the following in a container with a lid>

200g of pork/chicken/beef, cut in cubes
5 tablespoons of soy sauce
1 tablespoon of minced ginger
2 tablespoons of sake or white wine

 <Sauce-Prepare the following in a cup>
2 tablespoons of white vinegar
2 tablespoons of sake or white wine
1 tablespoon of chicken stock powder+2 tablespoons of water
1 tablespoon of soy sauce
2 tablespoons of sugar

Step 1: Marinate meat more than a half hour in the fridge. Take it out and coat it with potato starch.

Step 2: Deep fry meat, and put it in a plate.
<Tip> Make sure you make it crunchy!

Step 3: Cut veggies in cubes. If you have carrots, soften them in advance.

Step 4: In a pan, fry veggies in a high heat.

<Tip> Make sure you don’t cook them too well.

 Step 5: Add sauce in a pan, and lower the heat to the middle.

Step 6: When the sauce is coated the veggies, add meat and mix it well. 

Step 7: Immediately after you add meat, add potato starch mix by making a circle on the top. Turn the heat off. Keep stirring until the sauce gets thicken.

Buta No Kaku Ni- Pork Belly Cooked in Coke

Prepare this food at night in a crock pot! 

Ready in: 10 hours (the preparation time is 5 minutes)

Ingredients for two:

100g pork slice or block

350ml coke can

2 tablespoons of soy sauce

Some ginger slices 

Some green onions

Step 1: Cut the pork and cook in a pan.  

Step 2: put the pork in a crock pot with ginger slices, add coke and soy sauce.

Start cooking in "Auto" or "Low"

After 4 to 6 hours

Step 3: Add eggs.

Cook another 4 hours!

Step 4: Put some green onions to serve

Korokke- Potato Croquettes

In Japan, we have Yoshoku culture. We arrange western food in Japanese style and call it Yoshoku-literally it's western food. It's quite popular!

Ready in: 45 minutes

Ingredients for four:

1/2 chopped onions

A half pound of minced beef or pork

1 garlic clove, chopped

2 potatoes

1 tablespoon of butter

1 cup of milk

1 egg + 1/3 cup of water

Panko (Bread crumbs)

Flour

Salt and pepper

1 cup of vegetable oil

Step 1: Place onions and garlic in the pan and cook it till it gets brown.

Step 2: Add meat and continue to cook.

Step 3: Cook potatoes in a microwave, and peel them. Place them in a bowl with butter and mash them.

 Step 4: Add "Step 2" in the bowl and mix them up. Add milk.

Add salt and pepper

Step 5:  Form them into oval and flat shape.

Make sure they cool down before frying to avoid explosion

Step 6:  Crack egg and add water. In other bowls or plates, put some flour and panko separately.

Step 7: Take a potato ball, put some flour first, dip it in egg mixture, and put some panko.

Step 8: Fry them.

Niku Jyaga- Potato and Pork Stew

Who doesn't like Niku Jyaga!?

You can make it without meat.

Ready in: 15 minutes

Ingredients for two:
1 onion, sliced
30g of sliced pork or ground pork
1 carrot, cut into cubes
2 potatoes, cut into cubes
2 tablespoons of honey/ maple syrup
2 tablespoons of soy sauce
100ml of chicken broth (100ml of warm water+1 tea spoon of chicken broth powder)
Sesame oil

Step 1: Brown onions with sesame oil.

Step 2: Add pork.

Step 3: Add carrots and potatoes.

I added Konnyaku noodles.

 Step 4: Once they are all mixed, add honey, broth and soy sauce. Cook till carrots get soft.

Step 5: Voila!

Tonkatsu- Deep Fried Pork Cutlet

Japanese food is known as healthy food, however, we love deep fried food!

Ready in: 20 minutes

Ingredients for two:

4 pieces of pork sirloin (thin pieces are better)

Tempura powder or flour + water=batter

Panko/ bread crumbs (if you don't have any at home, blend toasts.)

Oil

Mustard

<Sauce>

2 tablespoons of ketchup

1 tablespoons of worcestersauce

Step 1: Using a knife, hit pork.

Step 2: Put batter.

Step 3: Put Panko.

Step 4: Put some oil in a pan.

You don't need to make an oil- pool.

Drop batter to see if it's hot enough.

Step 5: Add pork.