Vegan Sweets and Treats
Datemaki (rolled omelet) is a traditional Japanese New Years food. It is quite similar to tamagoyaki which is every day home cooking. You can also find tamagoyaki and sushi restaurants where it is paced on top of rice and served as a type of …
Kuri-kinton is a Japanese sweet dish made of pureed sweet potatoes and boiled chestnuts. It is traditionally eaten at New Years and symbolizes wealth perhaps because of its gold color. This year I decided to add sweetened pureed white bean for more variety. I then …
After much preparation we finally finished making all of the dishes that we wanted to have in our osechi-ryori.
This year we made kobumaki (carrot, fried tofu, and burdock root wrapped in kelp), kuromame (black soybeans simmered in a sweet and savory sauce made from soy sauce and sugar), shio-koji Tai (red snapper marinated in shio-koji), dattemake (a sweet Japanese rolled omelet made with fish cake and egg), chikuzen-ni (assorted vegetables braised in a sweet and savory stock), namasu (shredded daikon and carrot in a sweet and sour vinegar sauce), tataki gobo (burdock root with sesame sauce), o-zoni (a soup made with stock taken from bonito and kelp) and kuri-kinton (sweet potato and chestnut dessert).
Over the next few days I will be sharing the recipes for these tasty dishes!