We have fun adapting recipes, including Asian recipes. Though even I don't recognize some of the ingredients you've listed-- kinchaku, bhel puri. And I've not seen freeze-dried tofu, but then I've never looked for it! Do you get it at the Asian market?
Bhel puri is what I made yesterday for a Xmas party I went to yesterday- it's an Indian salady-snacky thing that involves potatoes. The potatoes that were cooked but didn't go into the bhel puri went into the oden! Kinchaku are little pouches of chopped stuff that are made out of age pouches (the same fried tofu pouch used in inari-zushi, if you've ever had that.
Freeze dried tofu ROCKS. It's like tofu sponges (literally; when reconstituted it has a sponge-like consistency). They're dry as a bone and found in plastic bags on the basic shelves of a well-stocked Asian market (at least of the Japanese variety). It's called koyadofu. If you're lucky you can find the kind with Anpanman stamped on the cubes!
Oh, and I heartily recommend the Book of Tofu and Miso (by Shurtleff and Aoyagi). It goes into detail on making all sorts of tofu-things, including oden. If you can find it, get it!
Yay! Another fan! I love the foxes... I ended up rereading the manga after my husband and I watched the first few eps of the anime (I only have the vol. 1 dvd, but all the manga), and each time the oden foxes showed up, I'd get hungrier and hungrier. The little tied-up jobs are easier to make than they look, so it was actually fun. Can't wait for tomorrow, so I can finally try some!
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We have fun adapting recipes, including Asian recipes. Though even I don't recognize some of the ingredients you've listed-- kinchaku, bhel puri. And I've not seen freeze-dried tofu, but then I've never looked for it! Do you get it at the Asian market?
:) ::is vegetarian also::
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Kinchaku are little pouches of chopped stuff that are made out of age pouches (the same fried tofu pouch used in inari-zushi, if you've ever had that.
Freeze dried tofu ROCKS. It's like tofu sponges (literally; when reconstituted it has a sponge-like consistency). They're dry as a bone and found in plastic bags on the basic shelves of a well-stocked Asian market (at least of the Japanese variety). It's called koyadofu. If you're lucky you can find the kind with Anpanman stamped on the cubes!
Oh, and I heartily recommend the Book of Tofu and Miso (by Shurtleff and Aoyagi). It goes into detail on making all sorts of tofu-things, including oden. If you can find it, get it!
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out next time I visit the Asian market.
One of our favorite tofu finds recently is the extra-extra-firm tofu, at Trader Joe's. Yum! I love the extra-extra-firm consistency.
Thank you for the book rec, also. :)
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Also...HUNGRY!
Hope it turns out well ^____^
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Yay! Another fan! I love the foxes... I ended up rereading the manga after my husband and I watched the first few eps of the anime (I only have the vol. 1 dvd, but all the manga), and each time the oden foxes showed up, I'd get hungrier and hungrier. The little tied-up jobs are easier to make than they look, so it was actually fun. Can't wait for tomorrow, so I can finally try some!
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It's been sitting overnight, so the flavors should be developed now! Have some!
*spoons out some hot, steaming oden*
... I feel just like a fox odenya-san. ^___^
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