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Everything starts in the morning.
People usually have tasty sen cha, gyokuro at that time. However, the remains of tea should not thrown out to the garbage. Ingredients of tea, which dissolve in water, can't be taken with drinking tea.
In the remains of tea, it is full of caroten, protein, food fibre, vitamines, and it has the useful effect. It should be reserved.
Try to take whole nutrition in tea with good use of tea leaves for cooking.
Freshly drawn tea leaves are better to use for cookery.When highly qualitied type of freshly drawn tea is oacked and freezed in refrigerator, it is useful to cook like a dark green or yellow vegetables (ryokuousyoku yasai).
An important thing of this cooking is as follows: making faintly baked egg with flour mixture, add wheat flour mixture with water, bake four sheets in three eggs. Finally, lightly baked egg which is tough to break is made to serve.



Ingredients (4 servings)
·4 cups (500g [18oz]) hot rice
·3 eggs
·1 tablespoon water
·2 teaspoons cornstarch
·80g (2 4/5 oz) minced meat
·30g (1 oz) carrot
·50g (1 3/4 oz) bamboo sprout
·3 tablespoons freshly drawn tea (issendashi cha ba)
·1 teaspoon salt
·soy sauce
·3 tablespoons salad oil
·optional lettus, raddish

To prepare ingredients of pilaf:
Chop carrot, bamboo sprout, and tea leaves into pieces.

To sauté:
Heat salad oil in chinese pan. Sauté minced meat, carrot, bamboo sprout, and add tea leaves, season with salt. Bring rice into it, sauté quickly. Add soy sauce and sauté well.

To make lightly baked egg:
Beat eggs well. Add starch-water mixture and salt. Make lightly baked egg.

To roll ingredients with egg:
Spread lightly baked egg, add pilaf of (2) and roll up.
To dish up all:
Cut into bite-sized pieces and dish up on plate. Add vegetables, if desired.