Japanese Diet Recipes with Tofu

This is another miso flavor for Japanese Diet Recipe with Tofu called Tofu and Chicken Misoni (Tofu No Tori Misoni, 豆腐のとり味噌煮). It suit for both adult and children. Especially children will like the mild with some sweeten taste of the dish.　So, if you wanna to diet, or you have a diet menu list, put it into your daily diet menu list. And enjoy!!:)

Ingredients:(4 serving)

1 block silk Tofu cut into 2cm bit size
350g chicken breast cut into bite size
80ml water
1/2 tbsp vegetable oil
4 dried shiitake mushroom
chopped green onions

(For sauce)
6 tbsps miso
3 tbsps japanese sake
3 tbsps sugar
2 tbsps oyster sauce
1 tbsp cornstarch

Preparations:
Soak the dried shiitake mushroom and cut into slices. Heat vegetable oil in a pan. Add in the chicken and cook about 3 minutes with medium heat. Pour in ingredients for sauce. Add in tofu stir slowly with low heat. Transfer to bowl and garnish with green onions for serve.

Simmered Daikon with Chicken　(大根と鶏肉の煮物）

   In Japan, Daikon(大根), Japanese radish is one of the most welcome “season vegetable” in the winter. Japanese likes to braise daikon with meat or fish and it widely use in recipes like Oden, and Nabe Mono（鍋物）. And the recipe below, Simmered Daikon with Chicken (Daikon To Toriniku No Nimono 大根と鶏肉の煮物), also one of the typical Japanese home recipe in Winter. When you eat this hot, delicious dish during cold winter, you will feel the hearty touch with people just around you.

Ingredients: (4 serving)

1 medium sized daikon radish
600g chicken wings
4 dried shiitake mushrooms
4 shiso leaves
4 tbsp soy sauce
1 1/2 tbsp sugar
1 1/2 tbsp oyster sauce
2 tsp salt
2 tbsp japanese sake
soaking water from shiitake

Preparations:
 
Peel and cut daikon into  semi-circles slice about 3 centimeters thick. Soak the dried shiitake mushrooms in water to hydrated them. When hydrated, cut away the stems and cut the mushroom into half. Add shiitake soaking water in a pan together with chicken, daikon and shiitake mushroom. Put more water to cover them and bring to boil. Skim off the foam from the surface. Pour in soy sauce, sugar, oyster sauce, salt , Japanese sake and simmer for 30 ~ 40 minutes over medium low heat. Transfer to the serving bowls, garnish with shiso leaves.

See also
Japanese Recipes with Daikon : Oden
Japanese Recipes with Chicken : Teriyaki Chicken

In Japan, it is very common to cook Saba (Mackerel) with japanese miso. This is because mackerel has a distinctive fishy smell and using miso can cover the smell and add in good japanese traditional flavor. Mackerel is another source that full of DHA and EPA, but, you need to consume it wisely, meaning to select the right type of mackerel to avoid from mercury contamination. Select Atlantic mackerel which is less mercury contamination and avoid King mackerel and Spanish mackerel.

Ingredients:

2 mackerels
1 tbsp sake
1/2 cup water
2 tbsp sugar
3 tbsp miso
1 ginger sliced
1 spring onion sliced

Preparations : (2 serving)

Cut the mackerel into half. Mix water, sake, sugar ,ginger slices and miso in a pan and heat to boil. Add mackerel and simmer it for 10 minutes on low heat. Slowly stir and pour the sauce over the mackerel. Add in spring onion and stir well. Stop the heat and ready to serve.

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