Tenpura

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I don't have have any class on Wednesday, so I tried to make Tenpura.

Ingredients: shrimps, kisu (white sillago fish), squid, pumpkin, small eggplants (nasu), gobou (burdock root), shiitake, shishito (spicy green peppers), small lotus root (renkon), oba (beefsteak leaves). Batter; egg, cold water, flour, tuyu (sauce of Japanese)

Preparation: Pumpkin: remove seed, peel skin, cut into bite size peices.

Eggplant: without removing the skin, cut tip off, cut lengthwise. Cut halves into strips.

Gobou: Clean well. Remove skin with the back of a knife. Cut in strips. Soak in water to remove aku.

Shitake: Remove stem, Score a X on the inner side.

Shishito: To prevent them from exploding, cut hole.

Wash beefsteak leaves and dry.

Shrimp: remove shell, head, spine.

Kisu: Remove skin and bones.

Squid remove skin, score back a few times cut into 4 to 5 cm pieces.

How to cook: First, mix egg add ice water to insure crippiness. Use 1:5 ratio, egg to water. Mix in sifted flour light but not completely with chopsticks. Make batter immedietly before cooking.

Second, in a heavy pan, fill pan to about 75% capacity with oil.

Third, heat oil 160 to 180C .

Then, fry harder vegtables first. Avoid using too much batter. Only fry the inner side of shitake and shiso. Fry all other items on both sides. Fry 3-5 strips of gobou together.

Next, when the outer edges look cooked, turn over. Remove completed tempra and place on rack to drain oil.

Cook vegatables first, then seafood. Before dipping fish in batter, dust with flour. Hold shrimp and fish by the tail when dipping. Turn over as each piece floats to the top.

Remove to rack and eat.

Sukiyaki

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Ingredients: thinly sliced beef , onion, green onion, fresh shiitake mushrooms, itokonyaku, yaki-tofu, bag of fu, Beef lard, sake, sugar, soy sauce, konbu dashi, eggs

Preparation: 1. Cut beef into 5-6 cm strips. 2. Cut onion in half. 3. Cut green onion. 4. Remove stems from shiitake. 5. Boil itokonyaku and cut into an easy to eat size. 6. Cut yaki-tofu. 7. Soak fu in water.

How to cook: First heat pan or skillet. Second, briefly cook beef evenly on both sides. Third, add sake, sugar then soy sauce. Then add 1/2 of the ingredients except for the fu. When water level increases, add fu. If desired, put raw egg in small bowl. Dip sukiyaki in it. And eat it.

Yakitori

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Ingredients; chicken thigh, long green onions, sauce, Bamboo skewers.

Preparation; mix soy sauce, sake, ginger juice. And cut chicken into bite size pieces, marinate in sauce. Cut green onions into 2-3cm pieces.

How to cook; First remove chiken from sauce allow excess sauce to drain. Second alternately skew pieces of chicken then onion. Third boil remaining sauce. If desired, add a dash of sugar and crushed red pepper. Then grill on a low fire. Make sure it does not burn and the inside of the meat is well done before serving. Brush on sauce frequently while grilling.