Vegan sweets with Japanese traditional ingredients

As I have been vegan after I got pregnant, I made vegan sweets with Japanese Traditional Ingredients, "Fu - Rusk".

Fu is one of Japanese traditional food, dried bread- like piece of wheat gluten. As it is rich in vegetable protein, it was a precious source of protein for vegetarian monks in the old days.

Fu is often eaten with miso soup and other simmered foods, however, I tried to make sweets with Fu, Miso (fermented soy bean paste), walnuts and vegetable oil.

How to make "Fu-Rusk"

Fu

First heat oil in a large flying pan and add Fu. Heat them until both sides of Fu turn golden brown. Take Fu out of the pan and place them on an iron plate with oven sheet.

Put sugar, sweet white miso and oil in a boil and mix them well. Add roughly crushed walnuts and coat them with the sauce. Put the mixture on each top of Fu.





Roast them in a 160℃ oven for 4 about 4 minutes. (Be careful not to burn them)

Now enjoy 100％ vegan sweets!

 

MIso hot pot (Miso Nikomi)

Miso is now ready to eat!

Miso is a fermented seasoning made from soy beans, salt and rice malt. It has been fermented for 10 month.  I made it last January and just left it.

It is common to buy miso nowadays, however, people in old time used to make their home mad miso every year.






Today's dinner was miso hot pot, called Miso NIkomi(味噌煮込み）. Miso Nikomi is local dish in Tokai region. I used to eat quite often in my home town. Root vegetables such as daikon radish and carrot, Japanese leeks, shiitake mushroom, pork and Udon noodled are well simmered with Miso soup, it tasted really nice.







Mine is without pork! It is also nice only with vegetables.

Home made miso tastes really well. I am going make it for next year too.