There are many occasions for Japanese sake such as cherry blossom viewing, Chinese New Year, and New Year's holidays. Sake is basically stored in a cool and dark place, but if you put it in the refrigerator, it will take up a lot of space.
In the case of a bottle, it will be 1.8 、, so if you like sake, it's different, but unless you are a regular drinker of sake, it might be difficult to dispose of.
However, sake is not just a drink, but a variety of uses. Here are some tips on how to use sake.
How to use sake: 1: Cooking
The recommended way to use sake is to use it for cooking. Because there is cooking liquor, using sake for cooking is naturally possible in the world of Japanese cuisine.
In addition to stewed dishes, an increasing number of chefs use sake instead of brandy and wine to flambe Japanese beef steak.
Let's introduce how to use sake that can be used by ordinary households, not how to use sake by professional chefs.
Add sake during cooking
Have you ever experienced a bit of ingenuity changing the food to different stages?
Rice usually cooked naturally. By adding Japanese sake when cooking that rice, you can cook surprisingly delicious white rice.
As you know, sake is made from rice. The abundant sugar contained in sake will coat each grain of rice firmly, and it will be plump and glossy white rice.
If you add sake when you cook rice, it will last longer if you leave it in the rice cooker for a long time.
Also, you can make rice balls, and after a few hours, they will become plump and have a sweet taste.
What's more surprising is that after cooking, you can store it in the refrigerator, and then reheat it in the range, so that you can taste a freshly cooked rice without any rustling or wrap smell.
Once you've eaten rice that has been cooked with sake, you'll definitely become addicted enough to make rice cooked with water alone.
As a guideline, 2 cup of sake is combined with rice 1. If it is 3, it will be from 1.5 to 2 tablespoons.
Add to soba soup
If you add about a teaspoon of sake to the usual soba soup, the flavor and taste will change dramatically. In the first place, soba noodles contain “Mirin” which can be said to be a liqueur of Japanese sake.
Although it is a seasoning to eliminate the smell, soak in the taste, and keep the boiled food from breaking down, it is indispensable as a seasoning that brings out the unique “sweetness” and “umami” of soba noodles.
By adding sake to it, it is possible to give roundness to the crisp soba soup that is particularly common in commercial products. If you like soba soup with strong soy sauce, you may feel that it is too mild, but if you value sweetness, this is a highly recommended way to use sake.
However, like mirin, it is not used to burn alcohol over fire, so if you add too much, you may rip it when sipping soba, so be careful not to add too much.
Use for shabu-shabu hot water
Another way to use it is to add sake to the boiled water for shabu-shabu. Just put a glass of sake in the hot water when shabu-shabu.
You can taste shabu-shabu with a bit of high-class umami. In particular, boiled vegetables will increase the taste, so you can enjoy not only meat but also vegetables.
If you are worried about the alcohol content, you can evaporate it by boiling it out to a certain extent and still leave the flavor of sake.
It is also possible to enjoy the goodness of Japanese sake not only through boiled water, but also for those who come with it. Speaking of shabu-shabu, ponzu sauce is a classic.
However, it is also a good thing to have a Western-style sauce. Introducing Western-style shabu-shabu sauce using olive oil, sake and anchovies.
| Ingredients
・ Olive oil: 2 tablespoon ・ Sake: 2 tablespoons ・ Anchovy: 1 teaspoon ・ Soy sauce: A little if you like |
By simply mixing these ingredients, you can make an unusual Western-style shabu-shabu sauce. If you want to make Japanese sake stand out and have a strong Japanese taste, add soy sauce as you like.
You can drink sake through a hot water containing sake in a soak sauce containing sake. Isn't it the best dining table for Japanese sake lovers?
Put in curry
There are still many dishes that use sake. Japanese curry that can be said to be Japanese soul food. Just add sake to your regular curry and it will quickly turn into a high-class curry.
Even those who are not good at alcohol such as sake can recommend curry with sake. This is because adding sake and simmering removes the smell of meat when the alcohol evaporates.
Meat is finished softly, smell disappears and umami deepens. If you use cooking liquor, there will be many additives and it will cause miscellaneous taste, but by using pure rice sake brewed only with rice and rice bran, you can only taste delicious It can be raised to each stage.
The recommended amount of sake is from 5ml to 6ml of sake for 50 servings to 100 servings, but you can adjust it to your liking. When serving to minors or people who are not good at alcohol, it is recommended to simmer until alcohol has evaporated.
Curry that is boiled with pure rice liquor can feel the aroma of strawberry, although it is subtle among the spices unique to curry.
You will be able to enjoy a mellow taste without any meaty odors, so you will hear more “alternative” voices than usual.
For class B gourmet creation
Although it may not be a dish, sake also plays a role in creating Class B gourmets that have been devised for easy-to-eat cup noodles.
For example, just drop a tablespoon of about 1 cup of sake on any Japanese style instant noodle. With this alone, you can make a surprisingly authentic cup udon.
By adding sake, you can erase the peculiar taste of instant food and feel refined.
If warm soy sauce and sake fit together in your stomach, your body will warm more than usual.
It can also be applied to cap udon, kappa soba and retort curry. In the case of curry, instead of cooking in a range, it takes time to move it to a pot and boil it for a while, but you can enjoy an elegant taste that you can't think of as a retort.
How to use sake: 2: Beauty
So far, we have introduced how to put it in your mouth as a dish, even if you are not drinking. However, sake is not only eaten and drunk, but also known as a very useful item in terms of beauty.
As a result of research on the beauty power of sake, famous cosmetic brands pay attention to the whiteness and cleanliness of Mr. Tsuji's hand, and now there are many cosmetic products made from sake.
Here are some ways to use Japanese sake for beauty.
Beautiful skin & diet in sake bath
The method of using sake as a sake bath is highly recommended. If it is a unit bath sized bathtub for general living alone, you can make a Japanese sake bath just by adding a cup of 2 to 3 cups of hot water.
We can expect body warming effect and skin care effect. This is a recommended bathing method for women who are particularly troubled by coldness. However, if you add too much sake to increase the Pokapoka effect, you should be careful because you may get drunk or get drunk.
The point is not to increase the amount of liquor and the temperature of hot water. Sake baths are not suitable for hot water because alcohol enters and evaporates.
We recommend setting it to a slightly slimy 37 degree to 38 degree. The reason for this is that in order to fully realize the effect of a sake bath, it can be obtained by taking a relaxing bath for a long time.
If the temperature is too high, the warming effect of adding sake will add to your body's heat and make it difficult to bathe for a long time.
Even at a warm temperature, sake can provide a sufficient warming effect, so if you like a hot bath, try to keep the set temperature lower than usual.
When you take a Japanese sake bath, you will feel a lot of sweat from the center of your body. Instead of sticky perspiration, you can get a pleasant sweating effect with a smooth bed bath.
Keeping warm and moisturizing, improving whitening effect and spots, improving metabolism and promoting blood circulation. In addition, women can be expected to have good health benefits such as waste discharge, improvement of stiff shoulders and back pain, and resolution of colds.
Since this effect can be expected, body care for the whole body, including the unreachable back, can be performed with a simple care method that can be soaked.
Even after getting out of the bath, it is a sake bath with excellent moisturizing effect, so it is easy to keep your skin moist without coating with moisturizing cream.
Use as a lotion
In addition to kojic acid and amino acids, vitamins, and minerals, sake contains an ingredient called ferulic acid, a type of polyphenol.
Of particular interest are amino acids, which play an active role as a moisturizing ingredient in the stratum corneum of the skin. It is thanks to amino acids that a high moisturizing effect can be obtained when used as a skin lotion.
This amino acid is contained in sake more than 10 times the wine. In addition, Ferla has an antioxidant effect, which helps to prevent various aging of the body.
Because it is also an ingredient that is attracting attention for aging phenomena such as wrinkles, sagging and freckles due to aging, it makes sense to use sake as a lotion.
In addition, a component called adenosine contained in sake helps control blood vessels and increase blood flow. Normalization of blood flow increases metabolism, activates skin recycling, and helps relieve coldness and swelling.
Mixing sake and water in the ratio of 1: 2 and adding a few drops of glycerin makes it easy to complete the original sake lotion.
If you are worried about the peculiar smell of sake, you can change it to your favorite odor without adding resistance to lemon and herbs.
If you have sensitive skin or suffer from atopic dermatitis, alcohol in sake may irritate and cause skin problems.
For this reason, whether you use genuine or original sake lotion, be sure to perform a patch test in advance to make sure it matches your skin before using it.
How to use sake: 3: Medical
As introduced in the beauty section, sake contains amazing health ingredients. If this ingredient is used, it is possible to use it as a medical item though it is simple.
Use as a simple compress
Sake can be used as a simple compress. It's easy to use, soak a tissue paper with sake, and put it on a stiff or painful area such as the shoulder or waist.
The blood flow improvement effect and heat retention effect of sake improve blood circulation in the part where it is elaborated and make it easier. The point to note is that it can be used as a “warm compress” that helps to improve chronic stiffness.
It cannot be used as a cold compress that must cool the affected area such as bruises, bruises and sprains. Be careful not to use it as it will warm the inflamed area and increase pain.
Tochi seed compress
As an example of a poultice for treatment of bruises and bruises, finely squeeze the tochino fruits that are boiled in chestnuts and store them in sake for a while.
If it is applied to a painful area and covered with a cloth such as a case, it can be used as a cold compress.
Summary
How was it. I found out that there are various ways to use sake as well as drinking it.
It is a versatile beverage that can be used not only for cooking, but also for beauty and medical treatments, so if you have a hard time consuming it, please refer to it.
