I’m originally from Japan and I love Japanese food!!
But a lot of them contain fish stock. Do you think it’s difficult make Japanese food vegan?
The answer is absolutely NOT!
You can be creative and make your food even more tasty. While Japanese food is delicious, it’s relatively healthier. So I highly recommend for people who are on a diet, or wanting to lose weight. It’s lower calories but it nutritious.
This time, I’m going to show you how I cook vegan Japanese style meal.
I made shiitake mushroom rice, salad, and miso soup.
Shiitake mushroom rice
Ingredients:
shiitake mushroom: as much as you want
sake
soy sauce (you can add more after it’s done if you want)
mirin(it’s sweet, so don’t add too much)
rice(I use calrose rice)
quinoa(optional)
Direction:
① Rinse the shiitake and remove the stems and chop them as you like
You can pull them out easily!
Don’t throw them away! You can use the stems for the stock for miso soup!
② Cook rice(and quinoa) with sake, mirin, soy sauce, and shiitake mushrooms
Put rice, sake, mirin, and soy sauce in the rice cooker first, and then add water just like when you cook rice normally. Put shiitake after you put everything else!
Also, I like to cook rice with quinoa! It’s healthy, high in protein, vitamin, fiber, and more! Just add quinoa as much as you want and cook as you cook rice usually.
It’s so easy! Isn’t it?
And trust me…. it’s so delicious. Sake gives you a lot of umami as it cooks. So does shiitake.
