Important items. Dishes and plates with Japanese image

Important items. Dishes and plates with Japanese image
One of important fundamentals are dishes, plates, bowls, chopsticks, and other decollation items for Japanese cooking.We say we eat foods with our tong and our eyes.
I prefer to use Japanese potteries and Japanese lacquer.(Japans lakwerk)(The red plate on left top of photo.)
Japanese lacquerware (wikipedia)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_lacquerware

We have Japanese lacquer artists in Japan.

By the way the menu of photo

from the left; Omelet with Shiso (japanese basil), Umeboshi (Japanese pickled plum), tomato and Shiso
Japanese rice with Adzuki(Azuki) beans, Miso soup with Wakame (seaweed).

This is a vegetarian meal and quite simple ingredients.
But the example to show beautiful if we use good dishes, plates, or bowls.
Of course ALL I cooked !

How to make Japanese Udon?

Udon is a Japanese noodle, like pasta. most popular style is noodle-soup type.With spring onion is popular for the topping.This is the recipe of Japanese noodle soup with chicken.

Chicken Udon (Japanese Udon noodle with chicken)

-Ingredients: (2 to 4 people)
---1 pack of Dried Udon noodle

---1 Chicken breast, or turkey breast (If you are vegetarian, you don’t have to add)

---4 to 8 spring onions

-Soup (broth):

---1600cc of hot water

---3 packs of Japanese Dashi (Japanese soup stock powder)
---100cc of Japanese Soya source

---2-table spoon of sugar

1. Cut chickens and spring onions

2. Combine broth ingredients in a pot, bring to a boil with high heat, add chicken and boil it in the broth. Keeping broth warm by low heat when it has done

3. Boil a generous amount of water in another pot, and boil dried Udon noodle for 10 minutes

4. When done 3, rinse with cold water, running the noodles with one hand to get rid ofｆ the stickiness quickly. (10 second enough. don’t rinse it for long time)Drain in a sieve.

5. Transfer Udon noodle in to bowls, sprinkle spring onions and put Chickens on.

6. Make broth hot again until boiling, and pour broth over on the Udon noodle in the bowl.

See the picture bellow.

Enjoy!