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Umami Days: Cooking

Umami Days: Cooking

Meaty with a dash of veggies

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Main Course

Honey Balsamic chicken skewers

Honey Balsamic chicken skewers
Cooked yakitori style, a mixture of honey and Balsamic vinegar is brushed repeatedly on skewered chicken in lieu of Japanese tare.
Cook time: 10 minutes minutes
Servings: 4 people

Sweet sour pork with plum sauce

Sweet sour pork with plum sauce
My comfort food as a child, the flavor of sweet sour pork is even more delightful with the addition of plum sauce and oyster sauce to the basic sweet sour sauce.
Cook time: 15 minutes minutes
Servings: 4 people

Chicken chop suey

Chicken chop suey
Stir fried bits and pieces of vegetables, and meat or seafood tossed with a little sauce. That's chop suey. In this chicken chop suey recipe, we've added mushrooms and quail eggs too.
Cook time: 10 minutes minutes
Servings: 4 people

Yaki onigiri

Yaki onigiri sprinkled with aonori
If you think that rice can’t be a stand-alone dish, yaki onigiri will change your mind.
And, get this, adding butter to yaki onigiri during the last stage of cooking adds a lovely layer of richess to the rice.
Cook time: 5 minutes minutes
Servings: 4 people

Crispy pork belly kare-kare

Crispy pork belly kare-kare
A meat and vegetable stew in peanut sauce, kare-kare is a Filipino dish cooked with various beef offal. In this modern take on the all-time favorite, crispy pork belly takes the place of beef offal.
Cook time: 30 minutes minutes
Servings: 4 people

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