{"id":116,"date":"2008-12-29T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-29T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greginnd.com\/gregcooks\/?p=116"},"modified":"2008-12-29T14:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-29T14:00:00","slug":"light-and-healthy-japanese-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/greginnd.com\/gregcooks\/2008\/12\/light-and-healthy-japanese-food\/","title":{"rendered":"LIght and Healthy Japanese Food"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ok, so the Japanese food bug is not completely out of my system. Last night I was in the mood again for some light and healthy food. I had plans to make a miso\/soy marinated chicken breast and serve that with a Japanese inspired soup.<\/p>\n

To start I filled a pot with some water, kombu (or konbu) which is a dried seaweed, and some Korean dried fish pieces. These are not strong flavors and were used just to make a light broth that reminded one of the sea. I soaked these together at room temperature for about an hour then heated it to boiling. Once the broth boiled for about 5 minutes I removed the kombu and fish. The fish I discarded. The seaweed I used for a salad.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Meanwhile I marinated some boneless skinless chicken breasts in a mixture of grated ginger, soy, mirin, a splash of sake, sesame oil and red miso paste.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Here is the broth after removing the fish an seaweed. To flavor the broth just a little more a couple tbsp of soy sauce were added along with a splash of mirin, a splash of sake and some salt.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The kombu was cooled and shredded finely.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>This was mixed with finely shredded carrots. To flavor the salad, rice vinegar, soy, sesame oil and mirin were added.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The plate ready for chicken. The green is a napa salad seasoned with rice vinegar and mirin.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The chicken was just cooked under the broiler in the oven until nicely grilled and cooked through.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>For the soup I added carrots, green peppers, green onions and somen noodles to the delicately flavored broth.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Now that hits the spot!<\/p>\n

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Ok, so the Japanese food bug is not completely out of my system. Last night I was in the mood again for some light and healthy food. I had plans to make a miso\/soy marinated chicken breast and serve that with a Japanese inspired soup. To start I filled a pot with some water, kombu […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[38,148],"tags":[206,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-116","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-chicken","7":"category-japanese","8":"tag-kombu","9":"tag-soup","10":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/greginnd.com\/gregcooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/greginnd.com\/gregcooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/greginnd.com\/gregcooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/greginnd.com\/gregcooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/greginnd.com\/gregcooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/greginnd.com\/gregcooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/greginnd.com\/gregcooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/greginnd.com\/gregcooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/greginnd.com\/gregcooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}