Good morning✨Last one! Would be happy if this series serves as any hint to enjoy the essence of Japanese cooking & omotenashi spirit🥰🙏✨✨
Documentation on Osechi (Japanese new year bento) item.
Each item has wishes & meanings, I try to cook to make those points stand out✨
Today introducing “Matsukaze-yaki/松風焼き (Japanese style chicken meatloaf)”.
It’s everyone’s favorite, more closer to everyday dishes.
Super Quick recipe of Matsukaze-yaki (arranged to be easier) & Stories🥚💛
It was interesting… This traditional dish is always sprinkled with poppy seeds- and I had unsuccessful shopping marathon to several malls only until… I learned that poppy seeds are prohibited in Singapore (in the context of drugs)😳
Matsukaze-yaki is a simple dish where we bake ground chicken seasoned with miso etc, cut in traditional shape & top with poppy seeds.
The name origins from a famous Noh ( Japanese traditional plays)- but long story short, the festive looks with sprinkled poppy seeds is only on top- nothing on the bottom side- symbolizes the sincere & honest (unlike being double-sided /faced).
Another interesting story- we were not allowed to eat meat such as beef / pork before 150yrs ago or so.
If you have a tea ceremony (which usually serves old traditional food)- meat would mean fish/chicken/ duck.
So this has to be done with chickens🐓
1.Mix ground chicken(500g) with 2TBS Miso, 1egg, 1TBS Sugar & Sake.
2.Top with poppee seeds… or, I did sesame & Ao-Nori (seaweed, only after baked or else it will be burnt).Bake for 30-40min in 200~220C, depending on the container.
3.Cut in dovetail shape- it looks like fans – we stick bamboo skrewers too.
4. Yummmmy😋
おせちシリーズ、こちらで最終回となります😇🙏✨
実は、一品一品は特に難易度高くないため、機会があれば、どれか一つ二つくらいの気持ちで気軽にトライしてみて頂ければと思います🥰
松風焼き、ケシの実が手に入りませんでした。
ポピーシードケーキ等あるので西洋人御用達スーパーならあるかも？等、近所のお店をハシゴしたのですが、やっぱり見つからず。
不勉強だったのですが、シンガポールではケシの実はアヘンの文脈で規制されている食材なんだそうです😳
