Buckwheat noodles or soba(蕎麦) is one of the healthy dish and a hot weather favorite in Japan.

Green Tea Soba (茶蕎麦）

There are many type of soba in Japan and the most delicious type is, of course, the freshly home-made type called “te-uchi soba”(手打ち蕎麦). But, it is hardly find outside Japan unless making own self.
Chilled buckwheat noodles are often served on a basket-weave tray called “Zaru” in summer and these cold noodles are equally attractive dished up into bowls. Normally, there are other famous dishes to serve together during summer with the chilled soba in Japan such as hiyayako (Japanese cold tofu appetizer), hiyashi-chuka (Chinese style cold noodle salad).

Japanese healthy buckwheat noodles

Here in this post I use Japanese dried green tea favor noodles that just freshly brought as “omiyage” gift from Japan by my friend couple days ago.

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Ingredients: (4 servings)

250 g dried green tea soba noodles
2 spring onion thinly sliced
1 nori sheet, toasted, cut into think strips

For dipping sauce:
3 tbsp dashi granules
1/2 cup soy sauce
1/3 cup mirin
salt to taste

Preparations:

Filled half of a large pot with lightly salted water and bring to boil over medium-high heat. When it is boiling, lower the noodles slowly into boiling water. Stir gently so that the noodles don’t stick together. Pour in 1/2 cup of cold water and return to boil.  Repeat this step or until the noodles are tender. Drain and rinse well under cold water, lightly rubbing the noodles with hands to remove excess surface starch. Drain and set aside.

To make dipping sauce, combine 1 1/2 cup water, dashi granules, mirin, soy sauce, and a pinch of salt in a pan. Bring to boil and stir well. Simmer for about 3 minutes then cool completely. Pour the dipping sauce into four small serving bowls.

Arrange the green tea soba in a plate, or bamboo basket (zaru) if you have one. Garnish with spring onion, and toasted nori strips. Serve with wasabi and dipping sauce.

 
    You may have heard somebody telling you want to on diet. But, he or she just keep saying from days to days, like Japanese saying “Diet Beginning From Tomorrow”(Dietto Wa Ashita Kara). It ended up can’t reach the weight lose aim. So, how to Diet or even Lose Up To 10 lbs In A Single Week?
Here I had gathered the 7 days plan healthy cabbage recipes for weight loss. If you or friend simply need to lose weight fast, the Healthy Cabbage Soup Diet may be just what you’re looking for.

Japanese Diet Recipe : Cabbage Soup

Ingredients:

 5 large green onions
 5 carrots
 1 head cabbage
 2 green peppers
 2 cans of tomatoes (diced or whole)
 1 bunch celery
 1 package Lipton soup mix
 1 or 2 cubes bouillon (optional) *
 1 48oz can V8 juice (optional) *
Season to taste with cubes bouillon*, salt, pepper, parsley, garlic powder, etc.

Directions:
Add all the vegetables in a big pot. Use about 12cups of water (or 8 cups plus the V8 juice *), cover. Bring to boil, stir in the soup mix and boil gently for 20minutes. Reduce heat to low and simmer until all vegetables are soft. Eat as much of soup as you like in next 7 days.Drink as much water as you can. You may also drinks coffee or tea.

 

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Hottest Diet Topic in Japan. – Morning Banana Diet.

As you may think of there is nothing special by eating banana to get diet. But, do you know that due to this diet boom, in Japan, banana seems totally sold out in the market? Over the past 4 months, demand has driven Dole Japan to increase its banana imports by upward of 25%, and even then supplies could not keep pace with demand.

For people who like to enjoy more sleeping and tend to go without having breakfast in the morning, banana diet is really easy and hassle free. By having banana in the morning, it will help to lower down the calories. In addition, it is good in controlling calories while having the sufficient nutrition in the morning. With only as low as 85 kilocalories in 1 banana, it will fill your stomach full. Further more, the moisture is about 60~70% of weight in banana, it is really effective for constipation.

Method: Morning Banana Diet is really simple; A banana (or as many as you want) and room temperature water for breakfast; eat anything you like for lunch and dinner (by 8 p.m.). A three o’clock snack is okay, but no desserts after meals and you have to go to bed before midnight.

So, let’s start “Morning Banana Diet” today!!

Hottest Diet Topic in Japan. – Morning Banana Diet.

Today, when we talk about health, naturally we will link it to diet in our daily life. This is really a big challenge in order to control our own weight in addition to take a nourishing food. Japanese always say “Dietto wa ashita kara!!”（ダイエットはあしたから）. Which means they will “Start On Diet Beginning From Tomorrow”, but, ended up keeping the same excuse to eat without diet. And I’d always been told that please take healthy food, choose the quality food rather than consuming in quantity.

That’s why, japanese recipes here provides you free a low calories recipe, quality japanese cooking recipe in order to rescue you out from Overweight Community. J

HEALTHY MUSHROOM TOFU STEAK (豆腐と舞茸のステーキ）

Ingredients (Serves 4 )

• 2packets (600g) Tofu
• 1 pack Mushroom
• 1 Garlic cloves
• 4 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
• Sea salt & pepper
• Parsley

Method

# Why Tofu ?#

Tofu is low in calories, contains a lot of iron which is very important for women of child-bearing age. It has no saturated fat or cholesterol, so, you do not need to worry about getting fat. Depending on the coagulant used in manufacturing, the tofu may also be high in calcium which is a Must for bone development and maintenance. It is also rich of magnesium which good for athletes. Tofu also contains soy isoflavones, which can mimic natural human estrogens and may have a variety of harmful or beneficial effects when eaten in sufficient quantities.

Hi, Konichiwa!! My name is YouLin & Welcome to my blog.
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Here, I would like to introduce you the Japanese Diet Recipes!
As you know, Diet is one of the hottest topics in these days.
You may wondering why am I choosing Japanese recipe for diet.
Because personally I love Japanese foods. In addition to this,
Japanese food is the healties food in the world.
So, diet with Japanese recipes is very effective & healthy for you life.

Table Manner Tips in Japanese:
ITADAKIMASU :-　いただきます
You say this BEFORE you eat your meal which is a polite phrase meaning “I receive this food.” This is to express thanks to the person who prepared the food.

GOCHISO SAMADESHITA :-　ごちそう様でした
You say this AFTER you taken the meal which is a polite expression to give thanks for the delicious meal.

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