Chawanmushi and Warm Salad

Home, 22 February 2012

These two recipes came from Japan Food Addict (japanfoodaddict.com). The author of the website is Mai-chan from Kyoto. Please show support for the website. In my opinion it is a great website for simple yet delicious traditional Japanese recipes. I think Mai is a great cook. The recipes are straight forward, the presentation of the dishes look great and most importantly the taste is absolutely delicious. I will learn as much from Mai-chan.

The first dish is the warm salad. I replace avocado with carrots. I do not add in ham because I want this dish to be vegetarian. This will be my first vegetarian dish for my vegetarian friends. Mine dish is a bit dark because my light soy sauce is darker then usual. I guess I need to change a new brand for my light soy sauce. My asparagus dish is crunchy, beautiful, and absolutely delicious. The only problem I have with this dish is it is so delicious and the serving is not enough for my "hippopotamus" stomach size. The receipt can be found here http://www.japanfoodaddict.com/salad/warm-salad/

The next dish I learn from Mai-chan is Chawanmushi. I use dried anchovies as my stock (instead of Japanese traditional Dashi), my ingredients for my chawanmushi are eggs (of course), carrots, shitake mushroom, crab sticks, chinese wine, prawns and caviars. My seasoning is one teaspoon of salt, one dash of white pepper and half teaspoon of light soy sauce and half teaspoon of sugar. I follow Mai-chan's recipe very closely and again I am trying to divert this dish to my own. So the outcome is just like the picture from the right hand side. The dish looks beautiful, and absolutely delicious. I just love the silky texture of the eggs. The recipe can be found here http://www.japanfoodaddict.com/chicken/chawanmushi/

I am trying to make time for Gordon Ramsay's recipes. Stay tune folks.