For those with daring taste buds, toufuyou is a must-eat cuisine only loyal families ate during the Ryukyu Kingdom era. Fermented with jiuqu, moascus purpureus, and awamori, toufuyou is a reddish tofu delicacy, rich like urchin meat (meaning it’s creamy and thick). If you’ve ever tried Chinese fermented bean curd, you have an idea of what it might taste like.
http://benihamashop.jp/toufuyou/(in Japanese)
Category Archives: Recipes/Food
Asian ingredients x Okinawan cuisines
Okinawa International Aerial Logistics Hub brings you Okianwan – Asian fusion cuisine recipes: http://okinawahub.com/en/cm/
Includes Asian Fishermen’s Champuru Pot (Okinawa x Shanghai x China); Chapuru with Okinawan Tofu, Beef, and Kimchi (Okinawa x Korea); Sweet and Sour Champuru Double-Lined Fusilier and Water Spinach (Okinawa x Shanghai); Okinawan Noodle Champuru with Bak Choy (Okinawa x Shanghai); XO Sauce Champuru with Bitter Melon and Mantis Shrimp (Okinawa x Hong Kong); and Cream Champuru with Pineapples and Prawns (Okinawa x Thailand)
Okinawan Recipes from Ryukyu Shimpo
In collaboration with Q.P. Corporation ( a popular Japanese mayonnaise brand), Ryukyu Shimpo lists original Okinawan recipes that use shima yasai (Okinawan vegetables). To learn how to make delicious meals using papaya, goya, naaberaa, taanmun, hanmada, or winter melons, click here (website in Japanese): http://ryukyushimpo.jp/shimayasai/index.html
Okinawa Suba (Soba)
We usually use commercial Soba (noodle), but home made noodle must be very good, so we would like to introduce how to make home-made noodle as well.
Home-made noodle
Ingredients for noodle for 5 people
Water 200cc, baking soda 1 tablespoon, salt 1 tablespoon, egg 1, hard flour 400g
1) Put baking soda, salt and egg into the bowl and put water a little by little and mix it with eggbeater until mix well.
Tofu Hamburgers (for 4 people)
Ingredients
*Ground Meat 300g
*Tofu (
*Onion 1/2
*Carrot 1pcs
*hizikia handful
!! Hisikia contains a lot of iron, calcium, potassium and iodine. It even has 500 times more
Vitamin C Rich Hearty Goya and Tofu Salad Recipe
Ingredients for 2 people
Go-ya (better melon) 1/3 melon
Tomato 1/2 fruit
Tofu (momentofu) 1/2 package
Home made salad dressing
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Vitamin C Rich Hearty Goya and Tofu Salad Recipe
(Recipe and Photos by Yuko Jones)
Ingredient for 2 people
Go-ya (better melon) 1/3 melon
Tomato 1/2 fruit
Tofu (momentofu) 1/2 package
Home made salad dressing …
Goya Champuru & Hiraya-chi
Wednesday, April 04, 2007
Goya Champuru & Hiraya-chi
Narumi arrives at 11:00 A.M. for Art’s kanji lesson. She carries a bag of groceries and has her 7 year old son with her. We’re delighted that she has brought her son and in spite of the age difference the two boys have a good time together. John shows off his beetle “Frack” and they play “Mario Brothers” on a Nintendo D.S. game console that he has brought along. Narumi shows John how to play their version of solitaire and the two boys play cards. After the kanji lesson I get a cooking lesson.
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Rafute
rafute
shoyu pork
Recipe by Chef Steve Yamada
Owner and Chef of Restaurant Kariyushi
Ingredients:
3-4 pounds pork shoulder
1 cup pork stock or combination of pork and chicken stock
1 cup bonito stock
1 cup soy sauce
Uchina nantu
Uchina nantu
Okinawa Mochi
Recipe by:Ruth Matsuda
Ingredients:
4 cups mochiko
3 cups water
1 3/4 cups sugar
1/2 tsp. salt
kinako
food coloring (optional)
Mix mochiko, water, and salt until smooth. Pour into double thickness