Ketchup Miso Stir-Fried Pork and Cabbage

Hello! It is pretty warm today.
Recent years, since the weather in spring is unsettled, I am missing the chance to take my winter clothes to the cleaners during the winter campaign :(
Too bad. I realized that the campaign has ended few weeks ago...

Anyway. Yesterday, I won the second prize in the "ketchup contest" organized by Kagome (manufacturer of food and beverage products based on tomatoes and other various vegetables) at Cookpad (recipe site).

Kagome has newly released the tomato ketchup called "aragoshi" in February.
Its target is mothers in their 20's and 30's who have infant stage children.

Features of the product are the below:
1. use fresh tomato puree with Kagome's original flavor
2. keep rich flavor of tomato when you use as is or cook
3. roughly strained tomato to keep fruitiness

Its bottle comes with a twist!
1. it fits in Japanese lady's hand
2. stand type bottle which is easy to use at the dining table or kitchen


Also its cap has an idea!
1. gentle wavy shape is easy to clean
2. can uncap in few rotations

In February, as part of a promotion campaign, I won a free sample of this ketchup and was asked to create a recipe to enter the contest. And that was awarded yesterday!

My recipe is below.
I combined ketchup and miso to give sweet and rich flavor!
It goes good with white rice :)

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Ketchup Miso Stir-Fried Pork and Cabbage

Difficulty: Easy
Time: 10min
Number of servings: 2

Ingredients:
150g (5.3oz.) thinly sliced pork
A
* 1 tsp. sake
* 1 tsp. soy sauce
* 0.5 tsp. grated garlic
300g (10.6oz.) cabbage
60g (2.2oz.) green pepper
B
* 2 tbsp. sake
* 1 tbsp. miso
* 1 tbsp. ketchup
* 1 tsp. toubanjan (Chinese red chili paste, optional)
1 tbsp. sesame oil

Directions:
1. Cut thinly sliced pork into bite-size and season with A.
2. Cut green pepper and cabbage into bite-size as well.
3. In a small bowl, mix B well.
4. Heat sesame oil in a frying pan, and saute seasoned pork.
5. When the pork starts to change color, add cabbage and green pepper and stir-fry until they began to wilt.
6. Then add 3. and cook thoroughly.

My original recipe in Japanese is here.
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Yogurt Pomme-Pomme

Hi there!
We have bad weather these days.
Forecast said it will be partly sunny this afternoon, but it's cloudy.

I had nothing special, but ate sushi in the weekend.
My favorite is anago (conger eel), which is similar to unagi (eel) but less rich and high in protein!

Today, I will translate my popular sweet recipe: Yogurt Pomme-Pomme. It's a high-fiber low-calorie apple cake.
I used to cook this with my mom when I was small.
It is originally from Mademoiselle Ikuko's cookbook.
It is very easy! Even kids can cook :)

Currently, 233 people have made it and said good!
You can find their photo reports down this page.

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Yogurt Pomme-Pomme

Difficulty: Easy
Time: 45min
Number of servings: 20cm (8inch) pie dish

Ingredients:
1 apple*
150g (5.2oz.) plain yogurt (unsweetened)
5.5 tbsp. sugar
3 tbsp. cooking oil (optional**)
2 eggs
100g (3.5oz.) flour
1 tsp. baking powder
lemon juice
butter
flour

Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 200 degrees C (392 degrees F). Butter and flour a 20cm (8inch) pie dish.
2. Slice an apple into 16 pieces, coat them with lemon juice to avoid discoloration and set aside.
3. In a large bowl, mix eggs, sugar and cooking oil (optional**). Then add plain yogurt and mix until smooth.
4. Sift in flour and baking powder a small amount at a time, and mix well.
5. Pour half of the mixture in the dish, arrange sliced apples on the mixture, pour the remaining mixture over the apples.
6. Bake at 200 degrees C (392 degrees F) for 30 minutes, or until lightly browned.
You can either eat at room temperature or refrigerate!

*You can substitute the apple with banana, pineapple, prune, raisin, pear, or any other high fiber fruit goes good!
**You can cook without cooking oil to cut calories!

My original recipe in Japanese is here.
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Buri Daikon (Japanese amberjack or yellowtail simmered with daikon)

Hello!
It is raining and cold today.
The weather forecast says temperatures dropped :(

Crazy!

... is my supervisor, as well.
I think I shouldn't be positive about him.


Last night, I couldn't beat the sleepiness again, so I will translate a recipe today :)
Buri Daikon is typical Japanese home-cooked meal!
The recipe vary from home to home, so here I will write mine.
I once introduced it here.
It is one of my popular recipes.



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Buri Daikon (Japanese amberjack or yellowtail simmered with daikon)

Difficulty: Medium
Time: 2hr
Number of servings: 2-3

Ingredients:
3 buri (Japanese yellowtail or amberjack) fillets
7 daikon radish cut into 2cm (0.7inch) thick round slices
1 small shoga (ginger root) sliced
salt
kome no togijiru (is a cloudy rice water that you get when you wash rice)
A
* 300cc dashi broth (using packaged dashi powder saves time)
* 100cc sake
* 50cc mirin (sweet sake)
* 50cc soy sauce
* 2 tbsp. sugar
B
* 100cc sake
* 2 tbsp. mirin (sweet sake)
* 2 tbsp. soy sauce
* 1 tbsp. sugar
C
* 1 tbsp. mirin (sweet sake)
thin strips of shoga (ginger root)
mitsuba (trefoil) leaves cut into 3-cm (1-inch-) -long pieces

Directions:
1. Cut buri into large bite-sized pieces, sprinkle salt on both sides and leave them for about 30 minutes.
2. Pour boiling water over the buri. Then wash off any remaining blood or dirt with running water. This process cleans away odors! When you use "buri no ara" (head and leftover pieces), I recommend you to wash them more neatly.
3. Use a peeler. Peel thick round slices of daikon radish and do mentori (plane off the corners) to prevent it from crumbling during long cooking.
4. Boil daikon radish with kome no togijiru (or water with a tablespoon of rice) for 15 minutes (it makes daikon clear colored and less bitter). Remove excess water with paper towel. This is called shitayude, to boil ingredients to certain firmness before cooking together with other ingredients.
5. Place A and slices of shoga (ginger root) in a pot. Bring to the boil, then add buri and cook for about 15 minutes. When you use "buri no ara", you cook 15 minutes before fillets, total of 30 minutes.
6. Add B and simmer for about 5 minutes until they blend.
7. Add daikon radish, cook on low heat for about 30 minutes till light brown.
8. Add C and boil over high heat for a few seconds to finish. Taste daikon radish and check if it's cooked all the way and absorbed the flavour of the buri and seasonings.
9. Serve with thin strips of shoga and mitsuba pieces on top.

My original recipe in Japanese is here.
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Have a good weekend!

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