Sunday 4 April 2010

Curry favour!!!

Pun intended for the title. Was browsing the Japanese supermarket at The Central one day and I decided I just had to cook Japanese Curry Rice for dinner.

These were my loot, among a few other unusual Jap drinks - Vermont Curry cubes with a touch of Apple and Honey, Instant Aged Miso Soup that came with 3 flavours (Tofu, Wakame Seaweed, Fried Tofu Stripes). I bought an extra pack of seaweed as well.

These were the ingredients I used - Chicken, Potatoes, Carrots, Broccoli . You could use any ingredients you like, I suppose. I am usually greedy and generous with ingredients, so I use many ingredients.

I even added Crabsticks, just because my niece and nephew like them. I chopped lots of onions. Next I cook rice in the cooker.

I mixed the potatoes, carrots and broccoli together and steamed them for 5 minutes, so that they would be just about soft later. I marinated the chicken for about an hour with sesame oil, pepper, light soy sauce and seasoning. I stir fried the onions and chicken till it was 80% cooked. Then I poured in the veggies and added water and left it to simmer for a bit. Last I put in the curry cubes (one pack comes in 12 servings). I used the whole pack even though I was preparing for 7 persons! The water with the curry cubes became thicker and thicker. It was such a colourful sight the whole wok of curry.

Here is what my Jap Curry Rice looked like. It was mouth-watering. Jap curry rice is very easy to cook and very child-friendly because it is not spicy, even the Hot version. And whatever ingredients you used (chicken, carrots and potatoes are compulsory, I feel), the curry gravy "hid" the ingredients so well, that you could get kids to eat their lumps of veggies without them knowing/complaining. ;P 

I made Instant Miso Soup too. I threw in and mixed the 6 packs of the 3 different types of flavours - Tofu, Wakame Seaweed and Fried Tofu Stripes - into the boiling pot of water. The final touch before serving, I added more seaweed on top of the soup. Yummy!

5 comments:

  1. Its exactly because of your this dish that I ordered the Jap Curry with Spag at Kichn. :D

    now no voice le. :D
    See la you... Its all because of you... *pOuT
    Cook so well... make me so tempted...

    >_<

    =D
    Amanda

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  2. but ya, their miso soup? is it very salty?
    Cos the portion in Jap itself is too salty for SG's liking.
    Hows this brand?

    *sLuRp...

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  3. Hello Amanda!
    Thank Q! Jap curry rice is so easy to cook! Try it one day! ;D And the miso soup is not salty, the most u can add more water. I don't feel thirsty after that, I think it is perfectly fine.

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  4. Are the MSG in miso soup? I don't want my hair to drop...

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  5. Hi HB!
    Surprisingly, I don't feel thirsty. So I think it's still ok! ;)

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