I have started growing Japanese herbs in my aero garden. I need some easy recipes?!
The kit contains Mitsuba (2), Red Shiso, Green Shiso, Nira Chives, Cress and Shungiku (chrysanthemum).
Please give me some SIMPLE recipes to go with these herbs. Please include recipes link and or details.
Answers: These are the herbs listed in the aero garden that im growing.
The kit contains Mitsuba (2), Red Shiso, Green Shiso, Nira Chives, Cress and Shungiku (chrysanthemum).
Please give me some SIMPLE recipes to go with these herbs. Please include recipes link and or details.
I am a formerchef and happened to have worked in Japan, I did not know they were offering Japanese herbs for the Aero Graden, might pick one up now, I have no balcony for planters.
All can be used for both Japanese and some western dishes, any shiso is nice in a salad for a pungent tang, like the Shungiku to, Nira Chives have bit of stronger flavour than regular, but are nice in a okinomiyaki, Cress/Shungiku is nice in salads in sandwiches or wraps, even in a soup with Udon noodles. Shungiku is also pickled for rice balls and other dishes, it depends on the variety.
Over rice with tonkatsu for most, in seafood stews like Chanko or as a zip to Shabu-Shabu broth, in sushi and with sashimi, roll the fish in the shiso and shungiku for a zest tang before dipping in Ponzu or soya sauce.
Play with them once you have determine the way you like them and the flavours they blend with and go with, you can then experiment with other foods and textures for them, you may find things I have not mentioned you like them with, I would not say they are interchangable with western herbs for everything, but try them that way, as the Aero Garden keep producing them after there cut, do not cut to short, leave some stem and root area for them to re-grow, seed are plentiful but hard to get sometimes.
try this one
http://fibers.destinyslobster.com/Japane...
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