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Corn Tempura

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 Corn Tempura Pretty a-maize-ing Inspired By: Gateau/Gato This recipe calls for 1/2 cup of cake flour. How is cake flour different from all-purpose flour? Cake flour has a lower protein content than all-purpose flour. To make cake flour for this tempura recipe, measure 1/2 cup of all-purpose flour, substitute 1 tablespoon of all-purpose flour with 1 tablespoon of cornstarch, and mix the flour and cornstarch together. Ingredients 2 ears corn 1/2 cup cake flour 1/8 teaspoon baking soda 2 pinches garlic salt 1 nori sheet, shredded into tiny pieces 1/2 cup ice-cold water Vegetable oil (frying) Dashi powder (optional) Instructions Shuck and rinse the corn. Use a knife to shave the kernels off the cob. Combine all of the dry ingredients (cake flour, baking soda, garlic salt, and nori) together in a large bowl Slowly pour the ice-cold water; do not stir the batter too much Add the corn and gently combine the corn with the tempura batter Heat vegetable oil to 330 degrees Fahrenheit  U...

Meat Jun

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Meat Jun The best way to beef it out Inspiration:  Foodland One of my favorite childhood memories is watching a movie with my family at the Mililani Consolidated Theaters and then heading over to Tasty Korean BBQ for dinner. My twin sister and I shared an order of meat jun EVERY SINGLE TIME. A plate lunch of meat jun with a side of potatoes, kimchi, bean sprouts, and sigeumchi namul (Korean spinach) still lingers in my jar of happy memories. It certainly broke da mouth! I had no idea meat jun was a unique dish to Hawaii until I moved to Seattle and tried to order meat jun at a Korean restaurant. Apparently, meat jun is uncommon in the mainland or South Korea. Bumbai they learn they're missing out on meat jun.   Meat jun appears to be a simple meal but it is incredibly delicate. With Paul Hollywood's voice, "use the wrong shoyu and the meat jun becomes too salty; cook with the wrong pan and the meat jun could fall apart."  For this recipe, I recommend Kikkoman shoyu b...