{"id":3035,"date":"2018-08-07T23:59:50","date_gmt":"2018-08-07T23:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gentianeetantoine.com\/igk\/?p=3035"},"modified":"2021-11-16T18:08:23","modified_gmt":"2021-11-16T09:08:23","slug":"wax-gourd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gentianeetantoine.com\/igk\/index.php\/2018\/08\/07\/wax-gourd\/","title":{"rendered":"Wax gourd – \u51ac\u74dc"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few years ago (or in an other life… when I was managing time differently) I used to go to \u8336\u61d0\u77f3 chakaiseki cooking classes once a month. I learned a lot there, about classic Japanese cooking techniques, about Japanese sweets and about some ingredients I was never cooking. Wax gourd is one of them. It is a very delicious vegetable but when you don’t know what to do with it… you just don’t buy it… until this class of July where I was in charge of cooking some, to be served with somen (thin noodles eaten in the summer) and red snapper. And I lived that dish so much that I remember preparing it for friends coming over for dinner.<\/p>\n

The season for wax gourd has come again and I bought some. I was fancying preparing the same recipe but the heat and our busy schedule changed the plans and I decided to invent a new recipe using the same base. No somen (too heavy for the very hot days) and instead of red snapper (no big one found) I decided to prepare Isumin pork meat balls. Still served with a great dashi. It was super delicious. Here is the detailed recipe.<\/p>\n

Wax gourd and meat ball<\/strong>s (for 2 people)<\/p>\n

– 1\/2 wax gourd or \u51ac\u74dc<\/p>\n

– 100g of pork ground meat<\/p>\n

– 40g of potato starch or katagiriko<\/p>\n

– 1\/2L of katsuobushi dashi<\/p>\n

– 2tbs of soya sauce<\/p>\n

– 2tbs of sake<\/p>\n

– cooking oil<\/p>\n

Cut and peel the wax gourd and cook in the dashi with the soya sauce and the sake until a toothpick enters smoothly.<\/p>\n

Heat the oil in a frypan. In a bowl mix the meat and the potato starch. Form small balls and fry them until golden.<\/p>\n

In bowls serve the wax gourd, the meat balls, then add some of the wax gourd cooking liquid. Top with a few sesame seeds. Enjoy!<\/p>\n

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A few years ago (or in an other life… when I was managing time differently) I used to go to \u8336\u61d0\u77f3 chakaiseki cooking classes once a month. I learned a lot there, about classic Japanese cooking techniques, about Japanese sweets and about some ingredients I was never cooking. Wax gourd is one of them. It… Continue Reading →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3034,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[359,383,360],"tags":[187,34,22,21,26,318,42,12,382,13,1240,1241],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gentianeetantoine.com\/igk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3035"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gentianeetantoine.com\/igk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gentianeetantoine.com\/igk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gentianeetantoine.com\/igk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gentianeetantoine.com\/igk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3035"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/gentianeetantoine.com\/igk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3037,"href":"http:\/\/gentianeetantoine.com\/igk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3035\/revisions\/3037"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gentianeetantoine.com\/igk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gentianeetantoine.com\/igk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gentianeetantoine.com\/igk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gentianeetantoine.com\/igk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}