Friday, June 17, 2005

Asupara-maki Furai


Asupara-maki-furai

Today’s supper. Maybe called “Asupara-maki-furai” in Japanese? Asparagus rolled in thinly-sliced pork, seasoned with sake, salt & pepper, breaded and deep-fried. Served with tonkatsu sauce. Pretty good.

Vitamin supply: Lettuce, tomato, avocado & cottage cheese salad with sesame dressing (expired. Ooops! )
Sorry, no picture.

9 comments:

Anonymous said...

obachan,
this brings to mind the sushi joints in the town i lived in in mexico. have you hard of this mexican sushi? it is maki, usually filled with a heart-stopping log of cream cheese, breaded and deepfried !. the dipping sauce is orange juice mixed with soysauce. wasabi? no way, it's served with sliced pickled japaleno peppers. and if i recall correctly, there was pineapple (oh god, the horror) in the fried rice.
global cuisine truly. 

Posted by rae

Anonymous said...

Hi Obachan,

This sounds really good. I think the combination of pork and asparagus would be really tasty, especially with tonkatsu sauce. Mmmm. Thanks for the idea. =) 

Posted by Reid

Anonymous said...

> rae --- Wow….! You mean the cream cheese was breaded and deepfried? With that kind of Mexican sushi, I guess japaleno pepper could be better than wasabi. We do mix yuzu citrus with soy sauce, so maybe orange juice might do. Pineapple in fried rice. I could live with that… depending on how big each pineapple chunk is, though. Gee, I wish I could see them in a photo somewhere.

> Reid --- Yep, I like this combination, and probably chicken instead of the pork would be good as well. 

Posted by obachan

Anonymous said...

Oh.. i love the combination Obachan..!!  

Posted by MrsT

Anonymous said...

Oh my God, Obachan...that looks so fabulous...how do you assemble those little things??? 

Posted by Sarah

Anonymous said...

> MrsT --- Hahaha... welcome to the club ;)

> Sarah --- Well, I chop asparagus into apx. 3 inches long, place them on thinly sliced pork and roll them up. After breading and deep-frying, you slice them diagonally and the result will be like those in the photo. It'd be fun if you use vegs in other colors ...like carrots in addition to asparagus. 

Posted by obachan

Anonymous said...

Obachan;
The maki looks so beautiful...and the combination of the breading and frying and eating with tonkatsu sauce sounds wonderful...I don't think I could roll them up neatly enough to get them breaded and fried..
Yours looks so neat..... 

Posted by carlyn

Anonymous said...

Hi carlyn,
It’s not that hard actually, if the pork was really thinly sliced. Uh... but after deep frying, to slice the asupara-maki this way, you have to get a Japanese sword that samurai used to use. ;P 

Posted by obachan

Anonymous said...

Wow. This looks so beautiful. And I love asparagus too! 

Posted by AugustusGloop