Special product in Nagano

Hello. How's going?
Recently, hot days are continuing and it takes away my appetite.
I have lost some of my weight. But, I know it's wrong diet from our class:P

Today, I will introduce a appetizing dish, Oyaki. Do you know that?
As I written in the past article, my grand parents live in Nagano prefecture.
Oyaki's origin is there. So, I have eaten it since I was child and I like it.

Oyaki is a Japanese dumpling wrapped soft buckweat dough.
It is cooked by roasting on an iron pan, that is different from ordinary dumpling.
It contains vegetables like nozawana, eggplant, mushroom,pumpkin and okara with miso, salt or soybean taste.
In the past, vegetables and edible wild plants were common.

Recently, red bean jam is made for travelar's souvenir.

If you want to eat Oyaki in Nagano, you can find it at souvernir shop, super market or parking area.

Korean dish

I went to Korea with my friend last weekend.

We left Japan on Friday and came back on Sunday.

So, we had a very busy trip.

Today, I will introduce a Korean popular dish,Samgyeopsal.

Samgyeopsal is fatty sliced pork belly meat and popular evening meal in Korea.

It is cooked on a grill at the dinner table.

We went to a resutaurant where we can eat 8 kinds of taste in Sinchon, Korea.

That restaurant is introduced on Japanese guide book.

There were 8 kinds of taste samgyeopsal like nomal, wine, herb, curry, miso and gochujang.

We could enjoy eating it. My favorite flavor was miso because it suited pork meat.

There are many grilled meat restaurant in Korea.

If you find good one, please tell me!

Healthy food:Okara

Do you know about Okara?

Okara is white or yellowish pulp when soybean filtered in th production of soy milk.

It is traditional food in Japan, Korea and China.

In addition it has uesd as vegetarian food in Western nations since 20 century.

Okara is low in fat,high in fiber and also contain protein,calcium and so on.

It is known as diet food in Japan and it can use variety of food like hamburger,croquette,cookies and doughnut.

Today, I cooked Japanese popular side dishes,unohana.

It consists of okara cooked with soy sauce,mirin,sliced carrots.

I cold cook it easily and it took within 30 minutes.

I recommend cooking okara dishes becaus it is healthy and cheap.

Surprisingly,okara costs within ￥100　at super market.