September 26, 2012

Award-Winning Recipe for Hot Cakes Containing Enoki/受賞した「エノキ入りホットケーキ」レシピー

On August 30, I won the "Idea Award" at the Mushroom Recipe Contest, conducted by the Uonuma Kinoko and Sansai Promotion Association, as described here (Japanese only).
8月30日、魚沼きのこ・山菜振興協議会開催の「きのこレシピコンテスト」でアイディア賞を受賞しました。

I have been reluctant to post about this recipe, because it is not so good by any standard, but I guess I might as well post about it.  So, here is.
どう見てもあまりいいレシピではないので、紹介するのを躊躇していましたが、別に紹介してもいいのではないかと思い、紹介します。

Recipe title:  Hot cakes containing enoki
Ingredients for 4 servings:
300 g hot cake mix
2 M size eggs
150 ml milk
100 ml easily made enoki goori.  See below.

Directions:  Making easily made enoki goori

1. Finely chop 3 packs (200 g x 3 = 600 g) enoki.
2. Put in an I-Wrap bag and heat in a microwave for 4-5 min.
3. Put in a blender, add 450 ml water, and process in the blender.
This way, you can make about 1 kg easily made enoki goori.
Put it in an ice tray, and freeze.

Making hot cakes

1. In a mixing bowl, put 2 M eggs and 150 ml water, and mix well.
2. Add hot cake mix and easily made enoki goori, and mix well.
3. Pour 1/4 (about 1.5 ladlefuls) of the mix in a non-stick frying pan with a diameter of 18 cm.
4. Put on the lid, and cook for about 3 min. over very low heat.
5. Flip over, and cook for about 2 min.
Done!

Cooking time: 20 min. (40 min. if you start by making enoki goori).

Comments:  I've wanted to make sweets using mushrooms.  Cake with mushrooms in it, milk shake, ice cream, etc., etc.  When I talked about them to my children, however, their reaction was not so encouraging.  I don't think they will taste bad...
To minimize the risk, I decided to put mushroom in hot cakes first.
I have previously made hot cakes with soy pulp in them, and they went very well, so I was confident this time.  Just as I had expected, I succeeded in making tasty hot cakes, with the presence of enoki being hardly noticeable.
I would like to incorporate mushrooms into other sweets, too, in the future!

Postscript:  I recently learned that the correct pronounciation of "えのき氷" is enoki goori.  I had assumed that it was called enoki koori.  It seems that its recognition has increased more recently, and I hear that enoki goori is sold at local large supermarkets here.
That being said, it's a little too much to buy it, and it's troublesome to make it yourself (you have to simmer for 1 hour while stirring!).  So, I think that it will be the easiest way to either pan-fry or heat in a microwave and then process in a blender.  The resultant enoki goori may not have the same effect as authentic enoki goori, but I think it is the same in that you can consume a large amount of enoki.

レシピタイトル えのき入りホットケーキ
材料・分量 (4人前)
ホットケーキの素 300 g
卵 Mサイズ 2個
牛乳 150 ml
簡単えのき氷(ごおり) 100 ml。下記参照。
作り方 簡単えのき氷の作り方

1.えのき3パック(200 g x 3 = 600 g)を細かく刻む。
2.アイラップに入れ、電子レンジで4~5分加熱する。
3.ミキサーに入れ、水を450 ml加える。ミキサーにかける。
簡単えのき氷が約1 kgできる。
製氷皿などに入れ、凍らせる。

ホットケーキの作り方

1.ボールに卵M2個、牛乳を150 ml入れ、よく混ぜる。
2.ホットケーキの素と簡単えのき氷を入れ、よく混ぜる。
3.直径18 cmのテフロン加工のフライパンに1/4流し込む(お玉で約1.5杯)。
4.蓋をして、ごく弱火で3分程度焼く。
5.裏返して、2分程度焼く。
出来上がり!
料理時間 20分(えのき氷を作ることから始める場合は、40分)
コメント 以前より、きのこを使ったお菓子を作りたいと思っていました。きのこ入りのケーキ、ミルクセーキ、アイスクリームなどなど。でも子供たちに話しても、反応がイマイチ。まずくはないでしょうが・・・。
リスクを最小限に抑えるため、まずはホットケーキに入れてみました。
「おから」を入れたホットケーキを以前に作ったことがあり、その時もうまく行ったので、今回も自信はありましたが、予想通り、えのきの存在はまったく分からず、美味しいホットケーキができました。
今後は、他のお菓子にも、きのこを取り入れたいと思います!

追伸: 「えのき氷」は「えのきごおり」と読むと最近知りました。「えのきこおり」だと思っていました。最近、ますます認知度が上がってきたようで、地元の大きなスーパーでも「えのき氷」が売られているそうです。
とは言え、買うのはもったいないし、作るのは大変(1時間もかき混ぜながら煮る!)なので、フライパンで炒める、電子レンジで加熱するなどしてから、ミキサーにかけるのが一番簡単ではないかと思います。正真正銘の「えのき氷」と同じ効果は期待できないかも知れませんが、えのきを大量に摂取できる点では同じだと思います。


6 comments:

Fräulein Trude said...

Congratulations!
I know only little recipes using mushrooms for a sweet dish and this is always some sort of ice cream.
Dried boletus mushrooms cooked in cream with vanilla pods, filtered afterwards, followed by basic ice cream making while using egg yolks, sugar and such. Or woked and purred chantarelles made into ice cream using cream, egg yolk, sugar, salt. Served with pumpkin seed oil and caramell sauce. I think you should just try it out with Enoki and don't tell until your children start to complain.

Hiroyuki said...

Kiki: Thank you for your professional advice. It's surprising that you know a few recipes using mushrooms! You are quite right. I think I will make some sort of ice cream next time.

I didn't tell my kids that the hot cakes contained enoki, and they didn't notice.

Sissi said...

Congratulations for the award! The cake sounds very original, I am not surprised your idea was appreciated.
Talking about ice-cream, I have recently had sweet pepper sorbet and a cucumber one too (the latter was really delicious).
By the way, I am just coming back from a trip to Tokyo! It was an unexpected last-minute trip but I loved everything about it (except for my level of Japanese... it was very saddening I have forgotten so many basic words and expressions after only one month break from lessons; I did find katakana and hiragana useful, also in food vocabulary). Unfortunately I didn't have a chance to taste the famous matsutake, but I saw them in shops. The price was impressive! I did taste the tiny mushrooms, slightly slimy and served in a dark miso soup. They were delicious.

Hiroyuki said...

Sissi: Thank you!

Trip to Tokyo?! I hope that Japan lived up to your expectations. Are you planning to post about your trip in your blog?

Sissi said...

Japan (or rather Tokyo) was much much better than I thought! I was worried about certain things but I shouldn't have (although the trip was partly business and planned really at last minute). I also found restaurants particularly cheap (especially given the quality) and not only compared to Switzerland but also to France for example. I felt so well in Japan I wouldn't mind moving for a couple of years even tomorrow!
Next time I plan to visit some other city to see how different Japan is out of the capital... I haven't bought the rice cooker alas (I was worried about the transportation in the check-in luggage), but I have a rectangular pan! (And also a real wasabi root which didn't suffer much from the trip). I will post some photos, but unfortunately I am not as good as you and often forgot to take out my camera... for example when I had rare chicken breast skewers with wasabi and myoga (I have fallen in love with this vegetable)... an unforgettable experience (I have taken 5 portions!). You live in such a wonderful country!

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