Tag: appetizer
Black Hummus
Black Hummus
This hummus recipe is almost the same as a traditional Lebanese hummus, except the garbanzos and tahini are replaced with black beans and black tahini. The darkness has taken over. To be honest, I accidentally bought black tahini instead of Chinese black sesame paste when I was making ice cream. I didn’t want to waste it. So now I have black hummus; which turned out extremely good. The black tahini has a nuttier flavor than regular tahini. Sprinkling sumac over the top of the black hummus gives it a nice lemon aftertaste.
Equipment
- food processor
Ingredients
- 1 can black beans drained
- 2/3 cup black tahini
- 4 garlic cloves
- 1/4 cup olive oil
- 2 lemons juiced
- 1 tsp ground cumin
- 1 tsp salt
Garnish
- olive oil
- 1 tbsp sumac
Instructions
- Place all of the ingredients in a food processor.
- Pulse until smooth.
Sushi Deviled Eggs
Sushi Deviled Eggs
I have been on a Japanese kick the entire month of December 2020. Like most of my ideas that come about, I was on my porch chief’n like a chieftain after making sushi hand rolls for dinner when I had an epiphany. Sushi deviled eggs. Yes. I think I will make it happen. Make your hard boiled eggs. Scoop out the yolk and mix with wasabi and Japanese mayo. Spoon the wasabi yolk mix back into the egg whites. Top the eggs with sushi ginger, crumbled nori, and a little tobiko. These are honestly the best deviled eggs that I’ve ever consumed. If serving for a large gathering, make extra. They will be eaten.
Ingredients
- 3 hard boiled eggs
- 1 tsp wasabi paste
- 2 tsp Japanese mayo
- pickled sushi ginger
- nori crumbled
- tobiko
Instructions
- Scoop the yolks from the hard boiled eggs into a bowl.
- Mix the yolks with wasabi and Japanese mayo.
- Fill the egg whites up with the wasabi egg yolks.
- Place a piece of sushi ginger on the top side of the egg. Crumble a little bit of nori on top.
Pork Gyoza
Pork Gyoza
Pork is the most popular filling for gyoza. They assemble they exact same way as the shrimp gyoza I prepared in a previous post. Pork gyoza will require 2 more minutes of cooking to properly cook the filling all the way through. Serve the gyoza with a simple dipping sauce of soy sauce, rice vinegar, and sesame oil; chili oil if you are looking for a little heat.
Servings: 50 gyoza
Ingredients
- gyoza wrappers
- water
- 1 tbsp vegetable oil
Filling
- 3/4 lb ground pork
- 1 cup Chinese chives finely chopped
- 1/2 cup carrots finely grated
- 1 1/2 tbsp soy sauce
- 1 1/2 tbsp sake
- 1 tbsp sesame oil
- 2 tbsp cornstarch
Dumpling Sauce
- 3 tbsp soy sauce
- 3 tbsp rice vinegar
- 1 tsp sesame oil or chili oil
Instructions
- Mix together all of the filling ingredients.
- Lay out the gyoza wrappers. Place a heaping tsp of the filling in the center. Wet the edges around the filling with water on you fingertips.
- Fold the dumplings in half and crimp.
- Starting from the bottom right edge, fold over 1/8” of the edge and crimp. Do this 6 times in total across the gyoza’s edge.
- Do this until all of the filling is used up. You should yield about 50 gyoza. Freeze what you aren’t going to immediately use on a baking sheet. Then store in a freezer bag.
- Heat up the cooking oil in a sauté pan over medium heat. Place the gyoza into the pan. Cook for 4 minutes.
- Pour a 1/3 cup of water into the pan. Place a cover on the pan and cook until the water has evaporated.
