What happens if you try to make a rice dish when you have no rice? This video introduces three delicious alternative recipes: Curry Yakisoba, Tofu Fried Rice, and Gyudon Pasta. It's packed with ideas that are great for saving money and perfect for dieting.
Ingredients
Main Ingredients (1 serving each)
Seasonings
Cooking Basics
Steps
- 【Curry Yakisoba】Slice the onion.
- Cut the carrot.
- Cut the cabbage.
- Set aside half of the sliced onion for stewing.
- In a pot, add 100ml water, the reserved onion, and 1 piece of curry roux, then simmer for about 3 minutes. 【Tip!】 If making for two servings, increase water to about 1.6 times and adjust simmering time to 5 minutes.
- Heat 2 tsp vegetable oil in a frying pan, then add 1 pack of Maruchan Yakisoba Noodles and fry.
- Add 3/4 pack of the yakisoba sauce (from packet) to the noodles and stir-fry. 【Tip!】 Since salt from the curry will also be added, using less sauce helps prevent excessive saltiness.
- Add more oil, then stir-fry 60g pork. Season with Ajishio (seasoned salt) to taste.
- To the stir-fried pork, add 20g sliced carrot and 50g sliced cabbage, and stir-fry over medium-high heat.
- Once the ingredients are stir-fried, return the fried yakisoba noodles to the pan.
- Add the remaining yakisoba sauce (from packet), adjusting to taste. Add 1 tbsp sake.
- Add white pepper to taste and stir-fry everything together. Once thickened, the yakisoba is complete.
- Plate the yakisoba and pour the prepared curry roux sauce over it.
- Top with red pickled ginger to taste and sprinkle with aonori (dried green laver) to taste.
- 【Tofu Fried Rice】Finely mince 70g pork so it mixes well with the tofu. 【Tip!】 The key is to mince it into a coarse ground meat texture, not large chunks.
- Heat 1 tbsp vegetable oil in a frying pan, then crumble in 1 block (300g) firm tofu by hand.
- Stir-fry vigorously, breaking up the tofu to evaporate the moisture. 【Tip!】 If moisture appears, tilt the pan to drain it, then continue frying to make it crumbly faster.
- Fry until the tofu is thoroughly crumbly and makes crackling sounds, then remove from the pan.
- Add 1 tbsp vegetable oil to the frying pan, add the minced 70g pork, season with Ajishio (seasoned salt) to taste, and stir-fry.
- Crack 1 egg directly into the pan with the stir-fried pork and fry it like a sunny-side up egg. Do not touch it until the egg white is browned. 【Tip!】 Cracking the egg directly without whisking adds a fragrant crispness from the egg white to the fried rice.
- Once the egg white is browned, mix everything together.
- Add 1/3 tsp salt, 30g sliced green onion, 8 shakes MSG(Ajinomoto), and 5 shakes table pepper, and stir-fry together.
- Finally, pour 1 tsp soy sauce around the edge of the pan to add a fragrant aroma.
- Finish by drizzling in 1 tsp sesame oil and mixing everything. Tofu fried rice is complete.
- Taste and adjust seasoning with salt if necessary. Plate the dish.
- 【Gyudon Pasta】Slice 30g onion against the grain. Julienne 5g ginger.
- In a pot, add the sliced onion and ginger, 1 tbsp soy sauce, 2 tbsp Mirin (Sweet Rice Wine), 2 tbsp sake, 2/3 tsp Hondashi (Japanese soup stock), 1/3 tsp chicken stock, and 1/3 tsp sugar, then bring to a boil. 【Tip!】 Slicing the onion against the grain helps it soften faster.
- Bring water to a boil, add salt to achieve a 0.8% salt concentration, and start boiling 100g of 1.6mm pasta. Cook al dente, 1 minute less than the package instructions (e.g., if it says 7 minutes, cook for 6 minutes).
- Once the broth in the pot boils, add 100g beef, cover, and simmer over medium-low heat for 5 minutes. To the reduced gyudon base in the pot, add the al dente pasta directly and toss over high heat to allow the sauce to reduce and coat the pasta.
- Finally, add about 1 and 1/2 tsp of rice oil (or vegetable oil) and mix to emulsify. Plate the dish, top with the yolk of 1 egg, and sprinkle with chopped green onion to taste and ichimi togarashi (Japanese chili powder) to taste to complete.
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