Meatball bears(Teriyaki meatball bears recipe)

Meatball bears(Teriyaki meatball bears recipe)

Ingredients

Original recipe makes 16 meatball bears

※The measuring cups used are all the type that is used in the US.

Meat ball

300g/10,6oz  Ground pork

1/2 Onion(190g/6,7oz/ finely chopped )

1/3Cup japanese panko or bread crumbs

3Table spoons beaten egg

1Table spoon soy sauce

1Tea spoon grated ginger

Oil for deep-frying

For teriyaki sauce

3Table spoons sugar

3Table spoons soy sauce

2Table spoons mirin　sweet cooking sake

1.  Prepare the teriyaki sauce first.Combine the soy sauce,mirin, and sugar and bring the mixture to a boil over medium low heat until the sauce thickens and reduces by ten to twenty percent.

2.  Make meatballs. Put the finely chopped onion, pork ground meat, japanese panko or bread crumbs, beaten eggs, soy sauce and grated ginger in a bowl, and mix everything well.
Divide into 16 parts, and make each of them into a bear-shaped meatball like in the picture. Since ground meat shrinks when heated, make the ears rather big. Stick them well so they will not fall apart when you fry them, and place them one by one on a piece of parchment paper.

3.  Heat oil in a pan to 170 degrees(340F) Celsius. Place the parchment paper with the meatballs in the pan to fry them. Once the surface of the meat has hardened, flip the meatballs and remove the parchment paper. Fry until cooked through and once done, place on a wire rack to drain the excess oil.
*Be careful, since if you try to flip the meatballs before the surface has hardened, the ears may fall apart. Finally, glaze the meatballs with teriyaki sauce. This sauce goes well with grilled chicken too.

Because this blog translates Japanese in a translation site and writes it, there may be the place where a sentence is wrong sorry.

Thank you for reading this to the end.

Potato salad Bears

Potato salad Bears

Ingredients

The measuring cup of 500ml(16oz) in capacity

For salad

※The measuring cups used are all the type that is used in the US.

250g/8,8oz peeled potatoes

2table spoons chopped onion

2table spoons mayonnaise

1/8 teaspoon salt

1/8 teaspoon black pepper

Pinch salt and pepper

Your favorite salad source

Prepare an amount of your favorite vegetables enough to fill a 16oz(500ml) measuring cup.
For face

Toasted nori seaweed

sliced,boiled carrot (option)

1.Peel the potatoes,cut into rolling wedges and soak in cold water to eliminate bitterness. Chop the onion, place it in a bowl, sprinkle with a little salt (not in the ingredient list) and mix.

2.Place the potatoes in a pot.Fill the pot with just enough water to cover the potatoes,add the salt and boil over a high heat.When it comes to the boil,reduce the heat to low and continue to simmer until the potatoes become tender enough for a bamboo skewer to pierce without difficulty. When the potatoes are tender enough,discard the hot water from the pot and place over heat again to evaporate the moisture of the potatoes.Be sure to mash potatoes while they are still hot.

3.Add mashed potatoes, salt and pepper to the same bowl where you placed the onion before and mix. Once the potatoes are cold add mayonnaise, mix, and round with your hands to make the face of the bear. Serve the vegetables of your liking in the measure cup, put the bear potato salad on top, and decorate with carrot cut in the shape of stars. Cut out the remaining carrot with a straw to make the cheeks of the bear.

Make the face of the bear by cutting small pieces of seaweed. 
(I used a seaweed puncher to make eyes and nose.) The seaweed puncher is very convenient, since all you have to do is place the seaweed in it and push to cut out the parts of the face. You can buy it on Amazon Japan. Adjust the amount of mayonnaise,and salt to your taste.

Because this blog translates Japanese in a translation site and writes it, there may be the place where a sentence is wrong sorry.

Thank you for reading this to the end.