RECIPE
Recipes for Shichimi Cooking to Spice Up Your Day
Miso Soup with Tofu and Snow Peas
[ Ingredients (4 servings) ]
- Shichimi to taste
- 1/2 Tofu, diced into 1cm cubes
- 8 snow peas, strings removed and cut diagonally in half
- 4 cups fish broth
- 3~4 tablespoons miso
Cooking Directions
- Bring fish broth to a boil in saucepan. Add tofu and snow peas.
- Add and stir miso until dissolved. Bring back to a boil, and immediately turn off the heat.
- Serve in soup bowls. Sprinkle some Shichimi just before eating.
Dried Curry
[ Ingredients (4 servings) ]
- Shichimi to taste
- 500g ground pork
- 2 tomatoes, unskinned and grated with grater
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
- 1 1/2 onions, minced
- 4 green peppers, minced
- 8 cherry tomatoes
- 2 teaspoons each salt and soy sauce
- 1 tablespoon curry powder
- 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
- 4 servings white rice, cooked
(toppings of your choice; raisins, sliced almonds, fried onion, boiled egg, etc.) - vegetables of your choice
Cooking Directions
- Heat vegetable oil in skillet and add garlic and onion. Sautee until tender.
- Add ground pork and cook until brown. Add green peppers and grated tomatoes. Simmer.
- Add salt, soy sauce, curry powder and cherry tomatoes. Add Shichimi and adjust spiciness to your liking.
- Serve on plates with cooked rice and vegetables of your choice.
Mushroom-Rich Hearty Soba Noodles
[ Ingredients (4 servings) ]
- 1 bunch enokitake mushrooms, 1~2cm stem-ends cut off, then cut into 1cm pieces
- 300g nameko mushrooms, rinsed
- 2 tablespoons soy sauce
- 1 tablespoon each sake and mirin sweet sake seasoning
- 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
- Shichimi to taste
- 4 servings soba noodles, boiled, rinsed in cold water and poured with boiling water
- 4 servings condensed noodle soup base, diluted with water following label directions and warmed spring onions, chopped
Cooking Directions
- Heat vegetable oil in pot and cook enokitake and nameko mushrooms.
- Add sake, mirin and soy sauce, and cook until moisture evaporates. Serve noodles in large bowls, pour in diluted noodle soup, and top with 1.
- Sprinkle with Shichimi and garnish with some spring onion to your liking.