Spring Supply

After the most unhealthy Golden Week (long holiday in Japan), the best thing you could do to compensate to your body is to cook nice and healthy food.

With a phone call from my mother just before the G.W ends, I received beautiful spring supply from my hometown Kumamoto. She knows that there should be a lot of alcohol involved in my holiday as the first thing she said on the phone was "you must be hangover today.". Yes, she knows me too well.
With her special various Kimchis, there are fresh green peas, bamboo shoot and beautiful courgettes.
It is kind of hard to find fresh green peas in Tokyo and the frozen ones just taste nothing.
It's just amazing how happy these pretty vegetables can make me.

So what I decided to make with them is Green Pea Rice. It's damn simple but as long as you use right amount of seasoning, it turns out to be one of the most unforgettable rice of your life.




Ingredients;
for 2 cups of white rice and water (Japanese rice: water= 1:1.2)
2/3 big spoon of sake
2/3 small spoon of salt
dried kelp
2/3 cup of green peas

Add everything to rice a part from green pea and mix.  Then add green peas just before switching your rice cooker on the top of rice and turn it on.

There are actually two ways to do this;
the other one is to boil the peas separately, used the water to boil peas (cooled down) for cooking the rice and add the peas just after rice is ready.
With this way, peas are greener and beautiful but I think that it looses its taste and when you cook them together with rice, the rice observes its flavor and I much prefer this way.

With using the other vegetables, I made simple vegetable soup with chicken wing. The soup that comes out of chicken skin and the bones are full of nutrition and collagen. it is a perfect ingredient for your hangover recovery.

Dice up the vegetable (I used bamboo shoot, new onions, spring onions, carrots, courgettes and radish this time but can be anything you like) and slice up ginger.
Grill chicken wings in a pan separately just to get the golden color and throw them and the vegetables into a boiled water.
Add a bit of salt and sake then let it boil for about 30 mins.
Adjust the taste with salt and pepper and it is ready to eat.

Itadakimasu!