Asian or Japanese Diet?!
Answers: Can anyone tell me some Japanese or other Asian recipies?
How about I point you in the direction of Asian and Japanese recipes.
The 2 links below will give you a wide variety to choose from for each. Some are pretty high scale, but there are some simpler ones there.
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Here's an EASY SIMPLE crockpot recipe. I get requests all the time for this.
Teriyaki Steak
2lbs sirlion steak
1 onion
1 pepper
1 cup soy sauce
2 tablespoons sugar
2 teaspoons ground ginger
2 tablespoons vegetable oil
2 tablespoon minced garlic
Cut steak and veggies into bitesize pieces and layer in crockpot, steak on bottom. In a separate bowl, whisk all the other ingredients and pour over meat & veggies.
Turn crockpot on low for 4 - 6 hours. * This can also be made with chicken or pork. *
I serve this with white rice, some steamed green beans I toss with about 2 tablespoons of soy sauce and garlic powder and egg rolls.
egg and tomatoes stir fry
make scrambled eggs, add a can of drained chopped tomatoes, season with green onions and salt
One of my favorite things to eat over here (Japan) is kimchi nabe, kind of a bubbling cauldron of meat and vegetables that you eat around your dinner table. There are many hearty, healthy varieties of nabe -- I attached a good link with a couple of recipes.
Carrot-Daikon Kinpira
make matchsticks out of 2 or 3 carrots and an equal amount of Daikon radish
stir fry them in sesame oil and add mirin and soy sauce to taste, then sprinkle it with ichimi togarashi (japanese pepper) and sesame seeds.
Onigiri
Make some sticky rice/ sushi rice and let it cool (make sure and fluff it up before it gets too cool though, so that it's easier to handle.
get some fillings, like umeboshi (pickled plum) or smoked salmon, or whatever you like (those are just my faves) and chop them up tiny
get a big bowl and fill it w/ really salty water, and also get a small rice bowl with not too steep sides.
get your palms damp in the salt water and press a small handfull of rice against the side of the rice bowl, and then put the filling into the rice ball. gently slide the rice patty/ball out of the bowl and press it into a ball or triangle shape with the filling securely inside. Then you can leave it plain, put a nori wrapper on it, or sprinkle on some furikake.
I have a friend who likes to just put furikake on plain rice balls too, which is yummier and more satisfying than I thought it would be. check out these websites for some fun easy Japanese recipes, too.
http://justbento.com/
http://www.justhungry.com/