Here is the free and easy recipe  for those who love Japanese style salad – Pumpkin with almond salad. Mayonnaise , fresh cream and sugar play the main role here. Just prepare more to keep in the freeze. The next day, you will get the tasty mixture of 3 ingredients mixed into the pumpkin. Try this out, and let me know if you like the cool Yummy taste then!

Almond Pumpkin (kabocha) salad

Ingredient : ( 4 servings):
-   250g pumpkin squash
-    3 tbsp mayonnaise
-    2 tablespoons fresh cream
-    1/2 teaspoon sugar

Preparations:
Peel the hard skin from the pumpkin, cut it into large bite-size pieces. Boil the pumpkin pieces with hot water until tender. Drain and allow to cool. Combine mayonnaise, fresh cream and sugar in bowl then add the pumpkin & toss well. Transfer the pumpkin to the serving plate and sprinkle with some almond slices if you preferred.

As for me, I like to prepare more to keep in the freeze and take the next day. The mixture of mayonnaise and creame into pumpkin squash is somehow… “Yummy” as the time goes..

Ya, is time to have some light and easy meals after a heavy, gourmet food during CNY.
I had had this delicious, yummy Japanese salad yesterday dinner. Cheap, free and easy meals with full of nutrition volume.
Ya, I can’t wait to share this dinner recipe to you now.

Try this !

Japanese salad recipes : Tuna salad

Ingredients:

100g lettuce
1 cucumber
400g fresh sashimi quality tuna
1/2 Onion thinly sliced
wasabi mix with tuna

Dressing:
Aloe & Lemon Salad Dressing

Preparation:

Cook the onions about 15 seconds in a boiling water. Prepare a bowl of cold iced water, transfer it fast to the iced water and soak for 5 minutes. Drain and pat dry with paper towels. Shed the cucumber into long, thin strips and set aside. Mix Tuna, wasabi and soy sauce in a bowl and keep cold in freeze while preparing other ingredients. Wash lettuce under cold running water. Gently dry them with paper towels. Put all the ingredients in the bowl and gently tossed the mix. Transfer to a serving plate and serve with Aloe & Lemon Dressing. Add wasabi if prefer.

When I was wondering what to prepare for dinner, suddenly my head came across a “Ping”. Ya, there are some maguro tuna left in the freeze. Then, what diet recipe can it be with this healthy food?
Since, most of the time, tuna is consumed in raw, so, I decided to have Tuna Leek Salad with Ginger Sauce. Simple, easy to prepare diet recipe. Sounds good, right?

鮪葱サラダ　(見るだけで、食欲もりもり!）:)

Try it. Healthy food with low in calories, diet food recipe..”Tuna and Leek Salad with Ginger Sauce”

Ingredients: ( 4 serving)

2 tbsps thinly sliced leeks
1 baby cucumber
2 fresh shiso or large basil leaves, shredded
1 1/2 tsps grated ginger
400g fresh sashimi tuna
black sesame seeds (optional)

Ginger Dipping Sauce

1 1/2 tsps grated ginger
1/2 tsp dark soy sauce

Preparation:

Place the leeks in a small bowl of cold water and soak for 5 minutes. Drain and pat dry with paper towels. Shred the cucumber into long, thin strips and set aside. Combine the sliced leeks and shredded shiso or basil leaves in a small bowl. Add half of the grated ginger and toss well to combine. Dice the tuna and combine with the leek mixture. To prepare the Ginger Dipping Sauce, divede the ginger between 4 small sauce bowls and top with dark soy sauce to taste. Divide the tuna mixture into 4 equal portions. Place each portion on a serving dish. Sprinkle with black sesame seeds, if desired. Garnish with the reserved shredded cucumber and serve with the Ginger Dipping Sauce on the side.

Chicken Breast Salad Recipe

   Whenever we planning to have a potluck party, everyone seems to scratch the head on what food to prepare. What to prepare for potluck party? This time I really don’t want to miss out this chicken salad recipe which is so easy to prepare, delicious and perfect for diet. Every time I prepare it, there are a lot of sweet memories recall. It was so nice that I received all “Thumbs Up” in a potluck party which was also my first chicken salad recipe experience during my home stay in Japan.

So, try this chicken breast salad recipe when you going to potluck party and sure you will get more thumbs up.

Ingredients:

300g chicken breast, cut into thin strips
1 carrot peeled and sliced into thin strips
1 cucumber cut into round strips
2 tbsps sesame oil
2 tsps sugar
1 tbsp soy sauce
6 tbsps rice wine vinegar
1 tsp ground white sesame seeds
nori (seaweed)

Preparation:
Add water and bring to boil in a pan. Poach the chicken breast for about 10 minutes (until cooked through) in the pan, then drain and cool them. Mix vinegar, sesame oil, soy sauce, and sugar well in a cup. Arrange the vegetables on a serving dish and pile the chicken on top. Then pour the sauce generously over the chicken and sprinkle with sesame seeds and nori.

Healthy Recipes

 

Japanese Recipe – Hiyashi Chuka

  If you have chance to visit Japan in summer, do remember to look for this Japanese cold noodle salad dish, Hiyashi Chuka(冷やし中華）。Hiyashi Chuka is a cold noodle salad that very popular serve in most Japan restaurant during summer time. It consist of chukamen(raw ramen) with lot of toppings such as thin fried egg strips, ham, cucumber, carrot and others. There are two main flavor of dressing, soy sauce flavor and sesame flavor. You can get the tare dressing which comes together with Hiyashi Chuka package from japanese grocery stores . With this free quick easy recipes or cold ramen salad recipe, sure it will cool you down and appetizing you in a hot summer. Another Pro for this japanese recipe is low in calories, very suitable for diet.

Ingredients:(4 serving)

For Toppings:
cooked ham cut into long thin strips
boiled chicken breasts thin strips
thin omelette’s strips
thin cucumber strips
thin carrot strips
sliced tomato
pickled red ginger (beni shoga, in little strips) 

Soy Sauce flavor dressing
1/3 cup water
3 tbsp rice wine vinegar
2 tbsp soy sauce
3 tbsp sugar
1 tsp sesame oil

Sesame flavor dressing
1/3 cup water
5 tbsp soy sauce
3 tbsp rice wine vinegar
3 tbsp sugar
3 tbsp sesame seeds
1 tsp sesame oil

Preparations:
Boil the noodles ramen, wash with cold water (cool water with ice). Drain and put in a plate. Arrange the different colors topping well to make the dish more attractive and nice to eat. Pour dressing onto it before eat.

   Japanese salad Recipes – Gobo Salad         

   This time I really don’t want to waste the remain Gobo-root that left over from Tonjiru soup. This is another free quick easy recipes which is high fiber and low in calories. It really suit you for diet recipes. Ya, Gobo Salad (Burdock salad). Still remember when I taken the dish was in a Japanese restaurant In Ibaraki-ken, Japan. I was introduced to this great salad which were really simple to prepare! After the first try, I managed to make this free quick easy recipes and shared with my friends. So, every-time I prepare this salad recipes, sure I will re-called back valuable memory that I had in Japan. Try this easy to make japanese diet recipes and sure you will love it like me then. Low calories, high fiber, prefect for diet!
 

Ingredients:

Half gobo root (burdock)
Half carrots
1 tsp vinegar
1 tbsp mayonnaise
1 tbsp sugar
1 1/2 tbsp mirin (sweet rice wine)
1 tbsp soy sauce
1 dash of shichimi
1tbsp sesame seeds

Preparations:
Peel, shred gobo and carrot into thin strips. Soak gobo in salted water, wash and drain. Parboil gobo and carrot for about 5 minutes. Drain and cool them in iced water. Add sugar, vinegar, mirin, soy sauce and mayonnaise. Sprinkle with sesame seeds and shichimi. Keep the salad in fridge and enjoy it in cool.

Here is a special salad that I want to share – “Traffic Light Salad”. Looking at the name, isn’t it special? I get this cool idea when I saw 3 capsicums were arranged nicely by Green, Yellow, and Red in a vegetable stall yesterday. I can’t wait to take photo, and start to get some ingredients to make salad. To be more precise, I would called this salad as Shrimps Eggs Capsicums Salad.
For the basic japanese salad dressing, you can add 2 tbs rice wine vinegar, 1 tbs soy sauce, 1/2 tsp sugar and mix it well. Add in 6 tbs vegetable oil at last stage to prepare for serve. As for me, I would prefer to buy various flavor dressings such as japanese flavor(Wahu), Chinese flavor(CyuKa), Sesame flavor(Goma) etc.

Ingredients:

• 2 eggs hard boiled and sliced
• 100g shrimps
• 1 carrot cut into strips
• 1 japanese cucumber cut into strips
• capsicum ( green, yellow, red; 1 each), cut into strips
• nori seaweed
• Japanese salad dressing

Preparation:

Put water in a pan and bring to boil. Boil eggs for 15 minutes until cooked, then peel it. Add in shrimps to boiling water until cooked. Quickly transfer shrimps into a bowl filled with cold water. Add in the vegetables into a large bowl, topping with eggs and nori seaweed. Prepare to serve with japanese salad dressing.

More Japanese Recipe

n For The Dressing –
1 cup plain nonfat yogurt
2 tablespoon finely chopped fresh dill
1 tablespoon red wine vinegar
1 salt and freshly ground pepper

n – For The Salad –
1 900grams salmon fillet (1 thick ) cleaned; of skin and sinew
1 table spoon canola oil
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon freshly ground pepper
1 medium cucumber
1 curly leaf lettuce
4 ripe tomatoes; finely sliced
2 medium red onions; peeled and sliced thinly
1 lemon; halved lengthwise

Make the dressing: Stir together the yogurt, dill, vinegar, salt and pepper. Refrigerate. Make the salad: Sprinkle salmon on both sides with oil, salt and pepper. Heat grill until it very hot. Place salmon on the grill and cook, covered, until flaky, about 3 minutes on each side. Transfer to a serving plate and allow to rest for at least 5 minutes. Carve into 1/2 inch slices. Place salmon in a bowl and toss with the dressing. Cover and refrigerate. Just before serving, peel cucumber and cut in half lengthwise. Using a small spoon, scrape down the center to remove seeds. Thinly slice. Mound salmon mixture in center of a large platter lined with lettuce leaves. Surround with cucumber, tomatoes, onions, and lemon slices. Garnish with additional dill if desired.

Calories per serving: 288 cal

Free online recipe – Dilled Salmon Salad