Oya imo taro on green sauce béchamel

The “parent” of 里芋 satoimo (Japanese taro) are on the market, they are called 親芋 oyaimo parent potato. That’s not classic sauce béchamel, but the texture is similar.
Let’s start with the beans, well the side dish :

Making pattzuki bean patties with azuki, miso, sesame, onion, parsley, kabocha skin. It is spiced by turmeric (very visible here) and paprika powder plus a few chili flakes.

Pan-fried.

The redness comes while cooking. Served with leaves of komatsuna.

Oya imo, a big taro.
Here is a photo of family of 親芋 oyaimo, the parent with its kids and grand-kids :

from this blog いきもの　は　おもしろい！

I cut and peeled a thick slice, boiled till tender.

The sauce is green as it contains lots of fresh parsley.

Fry minced onion, garlic, feet of shiitake mushroom. Blend together silky tofu, white wine, a tbs of potato starch. Add into the pan. Season with salt, pepper. Simmer.
Let cool and pass in the blender with 2 volumes of fresh parsley per volume of sauce. Reheat slowly before serving.

The oyaimo with sauce and steamed stalks of komatsuna.

Pattzukis and basil argan oil zucchini

A 2 dish casual lunch : pattzukis (azuki bean patties) and zucchini.

Boiled azuki beans are the base.

I mashed them with a fork, added ajowan, cumin, dochi (Chinese fermented beans), garlic, hot chili, salt, fresh thyme and potato starch. Pan-fried.

Served them topped with cumin, with grated cabbage as a side, and a dressing :

Dressing : basil, sesame seeds, a little garlic, salt, argan oil, sudachi lime juice, water.

Grated a zucchini, patted with sea salt, added cut basil leaves and ground coriander seeds. I’ve let about 1/2 hour.

Then added argan oil.

Okara veggie patties

I had okara as a by product from making tonyu (soy milk), this time from black soy milk. Okara is also sold in supermarkets or tofu shops here. It’s full of fibers.

Okara, onion, kabocha pumpkin, sesame and parsley paste, ninniku no me (garlic stalks), grated ginger, potato starch, miso.

Mixed. Then formed into patties and pan-fried.

Veg veg burgers, and Bulldog

Veg burgers again, but new ones. They are never the same.

The carrot and romaine are the byproduct of juicing. I have added a little potato starch as a binder, and spicing is very light, salt, black pepper, a pinch of curry spices.

They had to be “lightly flavored”, because I have put some Bulldog sauce on them…

Bulldog sauces
That’s a brand of Worcester-like Japanese sauces, that is relatively classic now as they started in 1905 it seems. Click here and follow the arrows. It’s in Japanese but thanks to the photos, you can see the ingredients of the sauce, fruits, veggies and spices, plus vinegar and salt. The 3 sauces are relatively similar but more or less liquid. I have the 中濃 (chuno) which is medium thick.
Well, I should make mine someday. They are usually called “so-su” (sauce) in Japanese conversation, as that’s the sauce by default.

Heated rounds of bread to make sands.

Okara gold nuggets, a shiny veggie lunch

A healthy quick lunch. Veggies, fibers and super healing spice turmeric. In addition, it’s delicious.

The main ingredient is okara, the fiber left when you make soy milk. Here we can buy it in any supermarket, but I had some home-made. (DIY soy milk and okara).

The patties are very simply made of :
-cooked okara
-a little potato starch for binding
-a good dose of turmeric,
-salt, pepper
-minced onion
-bits of broccoli
-mint
Mix and cook.