20111128 Your Japanese Kitchen - Curry and Quick Pickles
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Ground meat and vegetable curry
Ingredients (Serves 4)
*400g ground pork and beef
*2 eggplants (130g)
*1 small onion
*4 green peppers
*1/2 sweet yellow pepper
*1/2 sweet red pepper
*1 zucchini
*boiled eggs
*cooked rice
*fukujin-zuke pickles
[curry paste]
*180g cup curry paste, store-bought variety
*1 tbsp tomato ketchup
*1 tbsp tonkatsu sauce
*1 tsp soy sauce
*salt and pepper
*1-2 tbsp coriander seeds
1. Finely chop the boiled eggs, onion, and pickled cucumber. The finer they are chopped, the milder the sauce will taste.
2. Put the mayonnaise in a bowl, and dilute it with the milk.
3. Add a little granulated consommé stock and Japanese mustard, and mix.
4. Mix in the pickled cucumber, onion and egg.
5. Add the salt and pepper to complete the tartar sauce.
6. Dice the onion into 1cm square pieces, the green, red, and yellow peppers into similar sizes as the onion. Cut the zucchini and eggplants into 2cm-thick pieces, and then into 4 pieces, so to make gingko leaf shapes.
7. Heat the vegetable oil in a frying-pan, and fry the eggplants and zucchini till they're brown. Fry the ground meat. When it becomes brown, add the onion. Add the red and yellow peppers and the salt and pepper to taste.
8. Put in the fried eggplants and zucchini, add the curry paste, mix all ingredients well and cook some more.
9. Season with tomato ketchup, tonkatsu sauce and soy sauce. Add the green peppers, and cook them lightly. Add the ground coriander seeds, salt and pepper. Serve with a boiled egg and fukujin-zuke.
Recipes
Sweet pickled cucumber
Ingredients (Serves 4)
*4 cucumbers
*1 red chili pepper, chopped
*50g sugar
*1 1/2 cup vinegar
*2 tsp salt
*1 stalk celery
*1 knob ginger
1. Combine the vinegar, sugar and salt in a bowl.
2. Cut off both ends of the cucumbers, and cut them into 4 pieces.
3. Then cut each piece lengthways into 4 pieces, the celery into 4 pieces, and he ginger into juliennes.
4. Put the cucumber, celery and ginger in a plastic bag. Add the vinegar mixture and red chili pepper, seal the bag, and let it stand for 2 to 3 hours.