Steps to Make Any-night-of-the-week Shio-Koji & Sake Lees Hot Pot

Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, shio-koji & sake lees hot pot. One of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Shio koji is a Japanese cure/marinade made by fermenting grain koji (cooked grain, traditionally rice, that has been inoculated with Aspergillus oryzae, the mold that gives us miso, soy sauce, and sake), water, and salt until the mixture thickens to a porridge-like consistency and takes on a sweet, funky aroma. Shio koji is primarily used as a marinade for poultry, meat, and seafood. It's made by fermenting a mixture of grain koji (cooked grain, most commonly rice, that has been inoculated with Aspergillus Oryzae and then dried), salt, and water to create a porridge-textured product with a sweet, funky aroma. Shio koji isn't quite so glutamate-rich.

Shio-Koji & Sake Lees Hot Pot is one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Shio-Koji & Sake Lees Hot Pot is something that I’ve loved my entire life.

To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook shio-koji & sake lees hot pot using 17 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Shio-Koji & Sake Lees Hot Pot:

1. Get To make the sake lees soup:
2. Make ready 1000 ml Japanese Dashi soup stock
3. Get 80 grams Sake lees
4. Prepare 50 grams Saikyo miso
5. Prepare 1 tbsp Usukuchi soy sauce
6. Make ready 1 tsp Kombu tea (granules)
7. Make ready 1 Chicken (thigh, drumettes, or other cut of your choice)
8. Take 1 tbsp Shio-koji
9. Take 50 ml Sake
10. Prepare Vegetables and other ingredients you have on hand:
11. Take 8 cm Daikon radish, cut into matchsticks
12. Take 2/3 Carrots, cut into matchsticks
13. Take 1/4 Chinese or napa cabbage
14. Prepare 5 Shiitake mushrooms (or shimeji, enoki, or mushroom of your choice)
15. Prepare 1/2 Japanese leek (green onions)
16. Prepare 1/2 pack Mitsuba (or chrysanthemum greens, mizuna, or spinach)
17. Prepare 2 Kurumabu (optional)

When Aspergillus oryzae is combined with salt and steamed rice, then left in a warm environment to age, the rice grains break down into enzymes, glutamates, and sugars, imparting a mild salty taste with big umami (the so-called fifth human taste) flavors. Shio koji (塩麹, 塩糀) is a natural seasoning used to marinate, tenderize, and enhance the umami, or richness (one of the five basic tastes) in foods. It's made of just a few simple ingredients: salt, water, and rice koji. I wanted to make shio-koji with reduced sodium.

Instructions to make Shio-Koji & Sake Lees Hot Pot:

1. Sprinkle salt on the chicken, add sake, cover with a lid, then steam over medium heat. Once cooked through, remove the lid, add the dashi soup stock, and bring to a boil.
2. Add the vegetables that take longer to cook, such as daikon, carrots, or other root vegetables. Skim off the scum the soup boils.
3. Combine the sake lees and saikyo miso in a bowl, and add the dashi soup stock from Step 2 a little at a time. Dissolve until smooth, then add the soy sauce and kombucha, then add it to the pot.
4. Add the Chinese cabbage, shiitake, and other ingredients, finish with mitsuba or other greens, then it's ready to serve.
5. [To prepare the kurumabu:] Rehydrate the kurumabu in lukewarm water, gently press out excess water by pressing down with the palm of your hand. Then, chop into bite-sized pieces.

It's made of just a few simple ingredients: salt, water, and rice koji. I wanted to make shio-koji with reduced sodium. I make fresh malt with my rice cooker using the warming function, so I tried making shio-koji using the same method. Shio Koji is an ancient seasoning that has enjoyed a recent resurgence of popularity in Japan. Slowly, the rest of the world is catching on.

Foods That Make Your Mood Better

Many of us have been taught to think that comfort foods are bad and to be avoided. But if your comfort food is candy or junk food this can be true. Other times, however, comfort foods can be totally nutritious and it’s good for you to eat them. Some foods actually do raise your mood when you consume them. If you feel a little bit down and in need of an emotional pick me up, try some of these.

Eggs, you might be surprised to learn, are fantastic at fighting depression. You need to make sure, however, that what you make includes the yolk. The egg yolk is the part of the egg that is the most important in terms of helping raise your mood. Eggs, particularly the egg yolks, are full of B vitamins. These B vitamins are fantastic for helping to improve your mood. This is because they improve the function of your brain’s neural transmitters (the parts of the brain that affect how you feel). Try eating an egg and cheer up!

Make several trail mix of nuts or seeds. Your mood can be elevated by consuming peanuts, almonds, cashews, sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, and other types of nuts. This is because these foods are high in magnesium, which helps to raise your production of serotonin. Serotonin is a feel-good chemical substance that tells the brain how to feel at any given time. The more you have of it, the more pleasant you will feel. Not only that but nuts, particularly, are a great protein source.

Cold water fish are good if you wish to feel happier. Wild salmon, herring, mackerel, trout, and tuna are all rich in omega-3 fats and DHA. DHA and omega-3s are two things that improve the quality and the function of your brain’s grey matter. It’s the truth: eating tuna fish sandwiches can actually help you fight your depression.

Grains can be excellent for overcoming a bad mood. Quinoa, barley, millet, etc are great at helping you feel happier. These grains can help you feel full for longer also, helping you feel better. Feeling hungry can be a real downer! The reason these grains help your mood so much is that they are easy for your stomach to digest. They are easier to digest than other foods which helps bring up your blood sugar levels and that, in turn, raises your mood.

Your mood can really be helped by green tea. You just knew it had to be in here somewhere, right? Green tea is found to be chock-full of an amino acid known as L-theanine. Studies have discovered that this amino acid essentially induces brain waves. This helps improve your mental energy while at the same time relaxing the rest of your body. You knew that green tea helps you become a lot healthier. Now you know that it helps you to raise your moods too!

Now you realize that junk food isn’t necessarily what you should eat when you want to help your moods get better. Try some of these instead!

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