Cheese Baked Salmon Japanese Curry Rice

A simple and easy dish to prepare. As I have lots of leftover of the curry that I had cooked yesterday, I had decided to use the curry to make cheese baked salmon Japanese curry rice. I had grab some mozzarella cheese from the nearby baking supplies shop. I had decided to add in salmon as well as there's still some salmon fillet left in our freezer. It was quite a good combination to add in everything and sent it to the oven. Hubby love it. I shall prepare other version of cheese baked rice in the future.

Some of the step by step tutorial on the making of this dish.

Place cooked brown rice on a baking dish.

Pour in Japanese curry followed by sauteed broccoli and salmon flakes.

Sprinkle in mozzarella cheese.

Baked for 15-20 minutes at 200 Celsius in the oven.

Yummy curry oozing out from the rice once rice it's scooped out.

Ingredients

1 salmon fillet

1 cup broccoli floret

4 cloves garlic, diced

Japanese curry

leftover cooked rice (I had used brown rice)

2 tbsp butter

80g mozzarella cheese

Methods

1. Blanch broccoli with boiling water for 3-4 minutes.
2. Sauteed garlic with butter. Add in salmon fillet. Pan fry each side for 5 minutes each side or till cooked. Lastly add in broccoli. Stir well broccoli with butter. Dish up.
3. Flake the salmon fillet.
4. Place cooked rice in baking dish. Add in Japanese curry, salmon flakes and broccoli.
5. Add in mozzarella cheese.
6. Baked in oven for 15-20 minutes at 200 Celsius.

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Tonkatsu Japanese Curry Rice

It's a blessing to have some good food during a public holiday. Hubby and I didn't even step our foot out from our house and yet we can have good food to feast on. It's actually a pleasure to cook during our free time as cooking is a good activity to wind down and relax. So for our free day today, it's Japanese cuisine in da house....

Happy holiday guys...

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Tonkatsu (Deep Fried Pork Chop)

I had cook up a big pot of yummy Japanese curry in my earlier post. What is good to be serve together with yummy curry? I had chosen to cook Tonkatsu (Deep Fried Pork Chop) as I always love fried food. Tonkatsu is a deep fried breaded cutlet which is good to be eaten on it's own and with other dishes too.

Ingredients

2 pork chops
1/2 tsp salt
1/4 tsp pepper
1/4 cup flour
1 egg
1/2 cup panko bread crumbs
Vegetable oil for frying

Methods

1. Cut the edge of pork chops in several places. Sprinkle salt and pepper on the pork.
2. Put flour lightly on the pork. Dip the pork in beaten egg.
3. Put panko on the pork and pat them well.
4. Heat oil in wok. Wait till the oil was hot and deep fry for a few min. Turn over the pork chops and fry a few more min. Repeat the process till the pork was golden brown.
5. Take out the pork and put them on a paper towel to drain the oil.
6. Cut each tonkatsu into small pieces.
   

A picture tutorial of the preparation of Tonkatsu:

The breaded pork chops.

Make sure the oil was boiling hot before you place in the pork chop.

Deep frying pork chop.

Dish it up once both side is golden brown in colour.

Tonkatsu ready to be use.

Sliced up the tonkatsu to be serve with rice.

Tonkatsu served on with brown rice and Japanese curry.

Let's feast! :)

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Japanese Curry

I am always a fan of Japanese cuisine and of course Japanese curry. Japanese curry is not as hot and spicy as our local curry but it tasted good as well. I love the smooth and creamy texture of this type of curry. I had bought a pack of Japanese curry mix sometime ago in Cold Storage. The thought of having yummy Japanese curry in the comfort of our home had prompted me to cook it today. The taste was similar to the ones we normally had outside in Japanese restaurant but of course with a smaller price tag.

I had snapped a picture tutorial in making this delicious curry as I think it would be good for you guys to know that Japanese curry can be prepared easily in our own kitchen. Another frugal way for us to enjoy Japanese food. :)

Japanese curry mix sauce bought from Cold Storage.

Open up the box, you can see the plastic container containing Japanese curry mix sauce.

I had used half of the curry mix ingredient. That's how it looks inside the plastic container.

Saute 1 medium onion, 1 carrot and 3 potatoes until it gets slightly brown. Add 3 cups of water into the pot and simmer it with medium heat for 15 minutes.

Japanese curry mix looks like chocolate right?

Break the curry mix into smaller cubes and add into the boiling water with other ingredients.

Stir well until the curry mix is well mixed.

Stir occasionally for 10 minutes. The curry is ready to be serve.

End result - yummylicious smooth curry.

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Pasta Zanmai

It was a boring Sunday afternoon where both of us (Hubby and I) was 'dying' of boredom in our house. Finally we gave a call to our regular 'makan kakis' to initiate some activities (of course it is related to EATING and FOOD) on a hot and boring Sunday. So we had ended up in One Utama for some air-conditioned environment since it was super hot that day. For a change, we had opted for Japanese food. Our destination was Pasta Zanmai.

A sip of hot Ocha while waiting for our meals to be served.

We were practically spoilt for choices. Too many varieties of dishes on the menu. After cracking our head for more than 10 minutes deciding on what to ordered, here's the choices of our meals for that afternoon:

Unagi with Omelette Rice Set - LYH's choice.

CW had ordered Mini Ebi Tempura No Gomadare Pata to Mini Unagi Rice which consist of as below:

Mini Ebi Tempura with some pasta as side dish.

Unagi Rice as main dish.

Hubby and I had ordered set meals too. It consists of Miso soup and salad. I wasn't bothered to captured both of them thus no pictures taken on this two items.

Fried Ebi Curry Rice - Hubby's choice. Hubby was very delighted with the crispiness of the Fried Ebi and the aromatic curry. THUMBS UP from him.

Chicken and Mushroom Creamy Sauce Pasta - my choice. Lots of mushrooms inside this pasta. It was kinda mediocre in my opinion.

Pasta Zanmai

G210B Ground Floor Promenade,

1 Utama Shopping Centre.

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Jogoya Restaurant

We had our first wedding anniversary dinner celebration in Jogoya. You're right! We were extremely excited once we stepped into the buffet line. So many varieties of food to try out. Being a greedy pot like I always do, I practically picked almost everything that caught my attention. So not much of words in this post, I'll let my pictures do the talking. :P

At the entrance of the restaurant.

We were seated at table 5 for the dinner.



Are you guys ready for yummylicious food? 1, 2, 3 ..... START....



Ways to prepare 'steamboat' stuffs - all written at the counter.

Not sure what to do? Spent a minute or two to get it right.

Different soups to use for the 'steamboat'.

Different varieties of seafood to cook with the soup.

Spoilt of choices right? Hehe..

Not so sure what are they? Maybe some sort of pickles.

Deed fried fish skin (If I remember correctly)

Fresh shasimi

Some type of fish.

Sliced Abalone.

Oyster, oyster and oyster!

Sushi! Sushi! My FAVE!

Onigiri.

Sushi galore.

Fresh and yummy.

Salmon - one of my fave.

There are some items that we can actually ordered from the counter and the waitress will send it to our table once they had prepared it. All we need to do was just to place the table clip with our table number in the bowl placed at the counter. Simple and easy! Below are the items that we had ordered and send to our place.

Catfish.

Unagi. They taste so GOOD!

Oyster - black bean sauce.

Glutinous rice with abalone.

Shark fin soup.

Satay satay!

Grilled lamb chop.

Steamed Red Snapper.

Grilled Fish.

Grilled Fish (I forget the name of the dish)

Cod Fish

Baked Crabs.

After all the hearty dish, now it's dessert time. They have a wide varieties of cakes and dessert for you to choose to. Good news for for sweet tooth lovers!

And the best of all, they serve Haagen Dazs in the dessert section. I had 4 scoops of them. So sinful but yet so delicious. Who can resist Haagen Dazs rite? :)

Do you want a scoop?

We were basically stuffed to the max when we left Yogoya. Haiz.. Few kgs gained after the meal. Diet time SOON!

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