Tis the season to grow a belly, and that's why we'll be indulging in all our favourite Japanese food over the festive holidays! You might not be able to persuade your family to sacrifice the traditional Christmas day roast for a Japan inspired feast this year, but we can guarantee these delicious bite-sized canapes will go down a storm at a Christmas eve or New Years Eve party - serve them up with sake cocktails! You can also check our old canapé recipe too!
1 Potato Takoyaki
2 Potatoes
1 tbsp of takoyaki sauce (or okonomiyaki)
1 tbsp of Japanese mayo
aonori and bonito flakes
How to
Cut potato to 4 chunks and heat them in the microwave for 5min.
Mix sauce and mayo and put potatoes in the sauce.
Sprinkle aonori and bonito flakes
2 Chicken skin Kara-age stick
1 tsp of sugar
How to
Cut chicken skin, cover them with katakuriko, fry them in the pan till they get crispy.
Wipe all the oil away in the pan, mix all condiments and fry with chicken. Put them on to sticks .
3 Crispy nori seaweed with Ikura
Tempura batter mix and water (mix less water as nori will be too soft with too much water)
How to
Cover Nori with tempura batter mix and deep fry, put inure for topping.
4 Wasabi buagette
Baguette
Sliced cheese
How to
Slice the baguette, spread wasabi on it and put cheese on top and grill. Sprinkle nori on top if you like. It matches with sake and shochu!
5 Konjac with spring onion
1 spring onion
salt
1tbsp of sake
How to
Mix all the condiments with spring onions you have cut
Cut konjac to the size you can put on the sticks and also cut the surface of konjac.
Fry konjac for bit, and put them on the sticks.
Mix all the condiments (apart from soy sauce) to make sauce.
Pour soy sauce on top of konjac. and then put spring onion sauce on top of it.
6 Matcha cheese cake
100g of cream cheese
20g of sugar
1tbsp of Fresh cream
1tbsp of Matcha powder
1.5tsp Gelatin
8 crackers
How to
Leave cream cheese in room temperature before you make.
When it is soft, mix it with marked condiments apart from gelatine.
Mix gelatine with boiled water (1.5tbsp) then mix with cheese.
Put them on crackers and ankle, leave them in the fridge for a while.