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Surprisingly it is unknown that pasta is healthy food. Japanese who likes the noodles very much never knows that fact. Compared with rice, pasta contains rich calcium, iron, and the three times as much as food fibre that of rice.
And also, one can keep ones stomach full for a long time because of the slow digestion compared with the other grains. Even though pasta has a various types, penne has compatibility with sauce, and substantiality. It is recommended as appetizers.
Pasta in Japanese style is cooked with green tea. It brings the fresh color of green to sharpen ones appetite, and vitalize ones health. Carbonala sauce which is made from whipped cream and eggs tastes a little heavy, however, its oily and heavy taste will be soften with green tea. Chemical reaction in the body such as anti-oxidation effect in catechin, and anti-oxidation ingredients contained in carotene, vitamine C, E makes it possible.



Ingredients (4 servings)
·a bunch of rape blossoms
·200g (7 oz) pumpkin
·100g (3 1/2 oz) bacon
·200g (7oz) penne
·salt
·3 tablespoons white wine
Sauce
·2 eggs
·1 cup whipped cream
·4 tablespoons grated cheese
·a proper quantity matcha
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·2 tablespoons black pepper
·(optional) preparing powdered tea or powdered tea


To prepare all the ingredients:
Boil rape blossoms briefly, cut into bite-sized pieces. Cut pumpkin and bacon which is soften in oven into 1cm length.

To boil pasta:
Bring pasta into ample hot water, slightly salted, make it hard-boiled.
To make carbonala sauce:
Mix egg with whipped cream and grated cheese well, add matcha to make carbonala sauce with tea taste.

To sauté pasta and sauce:
Sauté bacon in olive oil, add rape blossoms and pumpkin, sauté swiftly. Pour white wine, sauté over high heat until the alcohol is done, mix pasta and carbonala sauce, and remove from the heat. Season with salt.
To arrange:
Arrange pasta on serving plate, sprinkle black pepper and preparing powdered tea on it to smell.