Love Heart Chocolate Corn Dogs for Valentines Day

Looking for a cute non-sweet chocolate recipe for Valentines Day?!

This is non-sweet cocoa taste corn dogs. I created this for my darling who LOVE's sausage but not the sweets :)

I used Hot Cake Mix for the batter to save time. Hot Cake Mix is a product from Japan to cook pancakes. I am sure it is available at Asian grocery stores overseas. FYI: Morinaga and Showa is famous for the Mix.

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Love Heart Chocolate Corn Dogs

Difficulty: Easy
Time: 15min
Number of servings: 10 corn dogs

Ingredients:
A
* 50g (1.7oz) hot cake mix
* 1/2 egg
* 1 tsp. cocoa powder
* 30cc water or milk
10 sausage (10cm/4in long)
vegetable oil for frying
ketchup

Directions:
1. In a bowl, mix A well.





2. Cut a sausage diagonally and join the cut sides reversely with a toothpick to look like heart.



3. Dip the heart-shaped sausages in the batter and deep fry at 170C (340F) until golden.




4. Carefully remove the toothpicks and serve with ketchup.





My original recipe in Japanese is here.
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Bite-Size Jap Style Tonkatsu

New recipe is up today!

I rolled up a slice of pork with bacon and Japanese flavors: shiso leaf (Japanese basil) and umeboshi paste (pickled plum paste)! Actually, this tonkatsu has a pronounced flavor without any sauce (unlike the image).

Needless to say, it goes well with white rice. Perfect for bento meal :D

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Bite-Size Jap Style Tonkatsu

Difficulty: Easy
Time: 15min
Number of servings: 6 pieces

Ingredients:
6 thinly sliced pork
6 half-size bacon
2 umeboshi (pickled plums)
3 shiso leaf (Japanese basil)
A
* flour
* beaten egg
* Panko (bread crumbs)
vegetable oil for frying
grape tomatoes if available

Directions:
1. Work with one slice of pork at a time. Place the slice of pork so that the length of it is running flat and vertically towards you. Place the half-size bacon and shiso leaf (cut in half) on top of the pork and spread umeboshi (remove the umeboshi seeds and mash) onto one side start rolling. Repeat with the remaining pork slices.

2. Flour the rolls, dip in beaten egg, then roll in panko. Fry them in oil at 180C (356F) until cooked golden brown.




My original recipe in Japanese is here.
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Love Heart Cutlet

My darling loves fried pork cutlet. He also loves sausage! So, I combined them together and made cute bite-size heart-shaped cutlets.

Don't you think they make your table happy?!

Try out ;)



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Love Heart Cutlet

Difficulty: Easy
Time: 15min
Number of servings: 6 cutlets

Ingredients:
6 thinly sliced pork
6 sausage
salt and cracked black pepper
A
* flour
* beaten egg
* Panko (bread crumbs)
vegetable oil for frying
B
* 2 tbsp. ketchup
* 1 tsp. whole-grain mustard
* 1 tbsp. white wine vinegar
tomato wedges
cabbage strips
watercress if available

Directions:
1. Work with one slice of pork at a time. Place the slice of pork so that the length of it is running flat and vertically towards you. Sprinkle a bit of salt and cracked black pepper onto one side and place the sausage on the end of the pork close to you and start rolling diagonally to cover the sausage. Repeat with the remaining pork slices and sausage.

2. Cut the rolls diagonally, join the cut sides reversely, and join them with toothpicks to look like hearts.



3. Flour the rolls, dip in beaten egg, then roll in panko. Fry them in oil at 170C (340F) until cooked golden brown.



4. Remove the toothpicks. Mix B well. Serve cutlets with B, tomato wedges, cabbage strips, and watercress if available.




My original recipe in Japanese is here.
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Tempura

Hi! Today, it's little bit cloudy but still nice outside!

Nothing special, but I will write how to make tempura because I had a request to translate one of my recipes which needs this recipe!

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Tempura

Difficulty: Easy
Time: 20min+
Number of servings: 4

Ingredients:
vegetables of your choice (eggplant, carrot, pumpkin, sweet potato, renkon (lotus root), green pepper, shitake, shiso, etc...)
seafood of your choice (shrimp, fish, squid, etc...)
--Tempura Batter
* 1 egg
* ice water
* 1 cup (200cc) all purpose flour
--Tentsuyu (tempura dipping sauce)
* 1 cup (200cc) dashi broth (using packaged dashi powder saves time)
* 4 tbsp. mirin (sweet sake)
* 4 tbsp. soy sauce
vegetable oil
grated daikon radish
salt and sudachi (or lemon) if desired

Directions:
1. Prepare vegetables and seafood before frying. I will explain how to for shrimps: Use beheaded shrimps. Shell shrimps (leave their tails), remove spine, and make incisions in their stomach side to straighten them.
2. Tentsuyu: In a pan, bring dashi broth, mirin, and soy sauce to a boil.**
3. Tempura Batter: Beat an egg and add ice water to make them 200cc. (Be sure to use ice water!) Pour the mixture into a large bowl, sift flour in and mix lightly. (Do not overmix!)
4. Heat vegetable oil in a deep pan to 180~190C (340~350F).
5. Lightly dip the ingredients in the batter and fry them immediately until golden and crisp. Drain tempura on a rack or a sheet of clean paper towel. (Do not fry too many at once.)
6. Serve with tentsuyu and grated daikon radish. Or salt and sudachi (or lemon) is good, too!

Tempura is best served hot!

**For tentsuyu, you can use Yamasa's Konbu Tsuyu (3 times concentrated Konbu kelp seaweed soup stock). You just need to dilute it with hot water as directed on the package. This product is very convenient and it is available overseas!
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