{"id":27921,"date":"2012-11-19T08:57:58","date_gmt":"2012-11-19T12:57:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=27921"},"modified":"2012-11-19T09:17:28","modified_gmt":"2012-11-19T13:17:28","slug":"okinawan-fried-rice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2012\/11\/19\/okinawan-fried-rice\/","title":{"rendered":"Okinawan Fried Rice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Posted by <a href=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2012\/09\/20\/current-okinawa-jet-debuts-with-new-book-samurai-awakening\/\"><strong>Benjamin Martin<\/strong><\/a>, a 5th year JET in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/groups?mostPopular=&amp;gid=3755130&amp;trk=myg_ugrp_ovr\">Okinawa<\/a>, publisher of the blog <em><strong><a title=\"Japanese Culture, Food, Photos, and More!\" href=\"http:\/\/morethingsjapanese.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">MoreThingsJapanese.com<\/a><\/strong><\/em>\u00a0and author of the YA fantasy novel\u00a0<\/em><strong><a title=\"Samurai Awakening\" href=\"http:\/\/samuraiawakening.com\" target=\"_blank\">Samurai Awakening<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0<em>(Tuttle).<\/em><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/morethingsjapanese.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/IMG_0569.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding-right: 10px;padding-bottom: 5px;padding-top: 5px\" src=\"http:\/\/morethingsjapanese.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/IMG_0569-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"A bowl of Fried Rice\" width=\"300px\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chahan is an Okinawan take on fried rice. Like many Okinawan dishes it is heavily influenced by Chinese cuisine. \u00a0Like <a title=\"Cabbage and Tofu Chanpuru Recipe\" href=\"http:\/\/wp.me\/p26RrS-sn\" target=\"_blank\">Chanpuru<\/a>, a similar category of Okinawa cuisine, Chahan&#8217;s basic flavor comes from a combination of soy, garlic, and dashi. \u00a0Since there are many ways to make or buy dashi, the final flavor of the dish, and the ease of its recipe can be changed depending on your approach. \u00a0Modern Chahan also often has an American influence in the addition of spam. \u00a0Below is a modern, yet quick take on this Okinawan dish. \u00a0It is by far my most popular post on <a title=\"Japanese Culture, Food, Pictures, and More!\" href=\"http:\/\/morethingsjapanese.com\" target=\"_blank\">MoreThingsJapanese.com<\/a>. \u00a0I hope you enjoy my take on a classic Okinawan favorite.<\/p>\n<h3>Ingredients<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>3 servings cooked white rice<\/li>\n<li>1 piman (green pepper)<\/li>\n<li>1 tamanegi (onion)<\/li>\n<li>1 package frozen vegetables<\/li>\n<li>2 large eggs<\/li>\n<li>170g meat (sausage, pork, chicken, spam, whatever)<\/li>\n<li>2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil or no-stick cooking spray<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Seasoning<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1\/4 tsp ginger<\/li>\n<li>2 tsp hachimitsu (honey)<\/li>\n<li>1 pkt dashi (5g)<\/li>\n<li>1 tbsp powdered or minced garlic<\/li>\n<li>4 tbsp soy sauce<\/li>\n<li>1 tbsp sake (cooking, mirin, awamori, nihonshu, etc)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<address>For directions and a video showing the creation of the recipe, visit <a title=\"Chahan Recipe and Video\" href=\"http:\/\/wp.me\/p26RrS-hx\" target=\"_blank\">MoreThignsJapanese.com<\/a><\/address>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posted by Benjamin Martin, a 5th year JET in Okinawa, publisher of the blog MoreThingsJapanese.com\u00a0and author of the YA fantasy novel\u00a0Samurai Awakening\u00a0(Tuttle). Chahan is an Okinawan take on fried rice. Like many Okinawan dishes it is heavily influenced by Chinese cuisine. \u00a0Like Chanpuru, a similar category of Okinawa cuisine, Chahan&#8217;s basic flavor comes from a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":96,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7,70],"tags":[450,392,1397,191,525,412,785,460,451],"class_list":["post-27921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-food-drink","tag-cooking","tag-cooking-in-japan","tag-ill-make-it-myself","tag-japan","tag-japanese","tag-japanese-food","tag-okinawa","tag-recipe","tag-recipes"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-7gl","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/96"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27921"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28023,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27921\/revisions\/28023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}