Izakaya Sakura Cucumber With Miso Dip Recipes

IZAKAYA SAKURA VEGETABLE MISO SOUP

Steps:

• In a small soup pan, add water, dashi powder, potato, carrot and onion.
• Bring it to a boil and cook until vegetables are softened. Add miso gradually by stirring with chopsticks.
• Serve hot.

IZAKAYA SAKURA CUCUMBER WITH MISO DIP

Steps:

• In a small bowl, mix saké, miso, rice vinegar and sugar to make miso dip.
• Serve sliced cucumber with miso dip.

IZAKAYA SAKURA CURRY WITH UDON NOODLES

Steps:

• In a medium-size sauce pan, add water and memmi noodle soup base. Cook on medium-high heat until it begins to boil.
• Reduce heat to medium; add curry sauce and cook until curry is hot, stirring occasionally.
• In a separate sauce pan, boil water and cook udon noodles.
• Place udon in a bowl and cover with curry sauce.
• Add chopped green onions and boiled egg and serve immediately.

IZAKAYA SAKURA SUKIYAKI SANDWICH

Steps:

• In a saucepan, cook onion until softened. Set aside.
• In the same saucepan, cook beef on high heat until meat is medium rare. Add cooked onion and mix well.
• Add premixed sauce and simmer on medium-low heat, stirring constantly until the liquid is absorbed.
• On two slices of bread, top with sukiyaki beef and lettuce. Place remaining bread on top to make two sandwiches.

IZAKAYA SAKURA KINPIRA GOBO

Steps:

• Peel gobo (burdock root) and carrot and cut into short, thin strips. Soak the.gobo strips in water for 5 minutes and drain well.
• Heat vegetable oil in a saucepan, and stir-fry gobo for 2 minutes. Add carrot strips in the pan and stir-fry together for 3 more minutes.
• Add water, sake, mirin, sugar and soy sauce, and cook until the liquid is gone.

IZAKAYA SAKURA DUNGENESS CRAB WITH PONZU DIP

Steps:

• Boil water in a large saucepan; add salt and sake. Use as much water as possible and keep the salt concentration at 3% so that it is similar to seawater.
• Clean the live Dungeness crab under running water by using a scrubbing brush or tawashi. Let the crab hold some wooden chopsticks, since it may pinch you otherwise.
• Put the crab in the boiling water. After the water returns to a boil, let it cook for 12 minutes. Do not overcook.
• Take out the crab and cool down under running water.
• Take off legs. Make a cut line on leg shells and place on serving plate.
• Remove the carapace from the body. You may stick your thumb into the hole between the body and the carapace at the back of the crab, then remove gently.
• Remove and discard the spongy, inedible gills from the side of the body and the black guts from the middle of the body.
• Fold the crab in half to crack the body into two parts. Use chopsticks or a crab fork and take off the white meat that forms in clusters divided by thin sections of shell.
• Place the meat in a small serving bowl. Serve with ponzu dipping sauce.

IZAKAYA SAKURA YAKINIKU WITH OROSHI PONZU SAUCE

Steps:

• Combine daikon, ponzu sauce and green onions. Set aside.
• Marinate beef in sake, soy sauce, ginger juice, salt, sesame oil and mashed garlic for 5 minutes.
• Oil and heat a saucepan. Add the marinated meat in the pan and stir fry for 2 minutes.
• Serve the meat on a plate. Top with grated daikon mixture.

IZAKAYA SAKURA NASU MISO (MISO GLAZED JAPANESE EGGPLANT)

Steps:

• Preheat broiler with a rack 4 inches from heat source.
• Heat oil in an ovenproof frying pan over high heat. Add eggplant, flesh side down, and cook until flesh starts to brown and soften (4 minutes).
• In a small bowl, combine miso, sugar, sake and chili flakes. Turn eggplant flesh side up and brush mixture over it.
• Broil eggplant in pan until glaze starts to brown (3 minutes). Sprinkle with cilantro and sesame seeds.