Unohana (卯の花) - Japanese Okara / Soybean Pulp Stir Fry

Описание: Unohana, 卯の花
Okara おから
日本炒豆渣

Making fresh soy milk is a juice well worth the squeeze. Fresh soy milk is much much better than your standard store bought brands and requires nothing more than a cheap blender and a fine mesh strainer or cloth. While the milk produced is delicious, a lot of soy bean fiber is strained out and often discarded. However these soybean dregs, or “okara” (from Japanese), has lots of potential for delicious dishes. In fact, some places even sell just plain dried okara.

Unohana is a Japanese side dish using okara in a stir fry with some veggies. It’s actually very delicious and the slightly sandy texture gives me ideas for a vegan Chinese-style salted egg pumpkin dish. Sometimes unohana is just referred to as okara.

Ingredients I used:
1.5 cups fresh Okara (leftover soybean pulp/fiber/dregs)
1 handful Edamame
1 carrot
4-5 shiitake mushrooms
2 tbsp soy sauce
2 tbsp rice wine or mirin or any cooking wine
1 tbsp sugar
Soaking water from dried scallops (just because I had it on hand; use mushroom soaking water or broth or just water)

Tags:
Vegan Japanese food
Vegan traditional japanese food
High protein fried rice (sort of)