Rie Saito

This is one of my favorite dish. I love fish, simple and easy is the best. As the mackerel is lightly salted, salsa source can be arranged using different ingredients to fit ones needs. you might want explore the flavours.

For 2 people

Ingredients:

Method:

1.    Cut mackerel in fillet and de-boned.

2.    Make a salsa source: Put finely chopped tomato, red onion and parsley into a bowl and add lemon juice, sugar, salt & pepper and olive oil.

3.     Lightly put salt & pepper then dust the mackerel with flour.

4.    Chopped the garlic. Heat a frying pan, put olive oil and add the garlic into the pan and fry it until golden brown and take it out. Then fry the mackerel skin down first. Leave it apx 5 min until golden brown then turn it over and cook thoroughly.

5.    Place the mackerel on a plate and pour the salsa source on top of the fish. Can be serve with bread, roast potato or rice, Enjoy!

This is one of most popular Japanese home made dish eaten all over the world. Many similar dish are also cooked in many countries. It is easy, cheap to make and  gorgeous filling meal.
It can be served with potatoes, rice, pasta or it can be sandwich filling. It is versatile, you can even change the ingredient chicken, beef or fish from pork.

Serves 4

Ingredients:

Method:

1.    If you accompany with salad or shredded cabbage, put them in a bowl of cold water.
2.    Cut the edge of pork slices in several places and sprinkle salt and pepper on both side of the pork.
3.    Lightly dust the pork with flour.
4.    Beat the egg well in a medium sized bowl and spread the bread crumbs in a flat container.
5.    Dip the pork into the egg, then place the pork in the bread crumbs and pat it well. Repeat the process one by one.
6.    Heat the oil in the deep fry pan in 180c° and slid the pork in and fry for 3-4 minutes. Turn them over occasionally.
7.    Drain the pork and cut them in 2cm strips.
8.    Place the salad or cabbage on the side of the plate and serve the sliced pork.
Pour Tonkatsu source to taste. If you prefer little spicier, mustard can be accompany with it. Enjoy!
Tonkatsu source can be purchased in Japanese store.

This is one of my favourite chinese food. I love chinese food so rich in variety and many way to enjoy. This recipe is rich in ingredients and needs some preparation time but I’m sure you will enjoy it. Also you can make as mush as you like in butch and freeze them for handy meal.

Ingredients：

Method

1.    Leave the spring roll skin in room temperature. Dried shiitake mushrooms are soaked then stem removed and finely sliced. Prawns are shelled and finely chopped. Vermicelli is soaked and cut in 2inch or 5cm. Spring onions roots are chopped and finely shredded. Carrot and bamboo shoots are finely shredded. Coarsely chopped garlic and ginger.

2.    For the filing, combine the mince and prawns with Soy source, Rice wine, Sesame oil and Suger into a bowl.

3.    Heat a wok over a high heat. When it is very hot, add the oil and stir fry ginger and garlic. Then add mince and prawns, all the vegetables into the wok and stir until it cooked.

4.    Mix Potato flour and Water then pour into the wok. Pour the ingredients in a large bowl to cool it down.

5.    Mix $ingredients in a small bowl. Once the ingredients is cool it down thoroughly, place filling near the end of each spring roll skin then fold in the sides and roll up tightly, seal the open end skin by brushing a small amount of mixture on 4 around the edge and gently press it to hold together.

6.    Heat the oil in 180 °c for deep frying. Or alternatively shallow fry is possible. Gently drop the spring rolls into the oil and fry until golden brown and cooked through.

7.    Remove the spring rolls and drain them. Mix the dipping source in a small bowl and serve with spring roll at once.