How
to make cheap nachos in Japan
- two serves of
nachos for under 1000 yen
By Peter Hanami
© Copyright Peter
Hanami, 2009. All Rights Reserved
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When
you live in Japan
you are probably going to miss many foods from home like nachos. Don't despair
you can eat nachos in Japan.
In this article we will show you how to find ingredients, cook, and do it
cheaply without breaking the bank. Food stores in Japan stock a wide variety of goods
but you will have to visit a lot of stores to find your ingredients. You will
find them but it will take time. It is getting easier but is still very time
consuming as no one store stocks all ingredients you need. This recipe is aimed
at making two serves of nachos for under 1000 yen. You may have your own
preferences, ingredients and tastes. This is a basic recipe to meet a 1000 yen
budget. No meat in this recipe.
Equipment:
*
A baking dish
* A microwave oven - preferably one with oven function
(Japanese
microwaves mostly have both functions)
* Bicycle - (to search food stores)
*
Patience (ingredient search can take a long time)
* Knife
* Cutting board
* Towel to remove baking dish from microwave
* Saucepan
* Cooking oil (1 table spoon)
Ingredients
*
1X Bag of Corn Chips 200g, 300 yen
* 3 X
Capsicums (mini piman) 4 for 100 yen
*
1 X Onion (bag of 3) 100 yen
*
2 X 400g cans of whole Tomato's (100 yen each)
*
1 X Clove of Garlic (3 bulbs, 100yen)
*
1 X 400gram Tin of Beans (150 yen)
* Salt (add to taste)
* Pepper (Chick Pea, Red or Three
bean mix)
Total cost for this recipe = 950
yen
Time required = 2 hours
* Prices
based on 2009 food prices.
Prices may vary when you come to cook this recipe in
Japan.
You
can find corn chips these days in supermarkets and convenience stores, pack
sizes are mostly small and prices can very from 105 yen to 400 yen. Imported
food stores can be better e.g. Kaldi or Donkey Hotei. Plain or
natural corn chips are rare; most varieties typically have their own flavour, e.g.,
cheese, spicy or wasabi.
It pays to shop around; you will be surprised how many
stores carry corn chips. We buy at Donkey Hotei and get a 200 gram bag
for around 300 yen. Vegetables can be picked up cheaply at your local green
grocer. Beans can be found but also take time to find.
We have been able to
find Chick Peas, Red Beans and Three Bean mix in a large tin size (400 gram) at
a number of food stores on occasion. If you do see beans at a good price always
buy them when you see them as they likely won't be there next day or week.
Stock & item turnover in Japanese food stores is very fast.
Convenience
stores have recently been stocking beans in cans, but size is small and price
is high. We find imported food stores the best, e.g., Donkey Hotei for beans in
term of range, variety and price. If you want to add avocado, sour cream and cheese
you can often get these at large supermarkets.
Avocado can be easily found and
retails from 105 yen, sour cream is harder to find, often comes in small pack
sizes and is very expensive e.g., 350 yen plus for a very small tub. Cheese
comes in shredded and block forms. Small packets start from around 100 yen for
60 grams.
Method:
1. Empty
half of the corn chips into the baking dish and spread them flat
2. Cut up
onion, slice and then dice and add it to a saucepan with a table spoon of
cooking oil. Peel garlic clove, slice and dice, add it to saucepan. Small
capsicums (piman in Japanese), cut off heads, pull out insides, wash under
tap, then slice finely and add to the saucepan. Heat the saucepan on a medium heat
and mix the vegetables gently until light brown.
3. Drain
beans from tin and wash. Open canned tomatoes. Add beans and tomatoes to
vegetables in saucepan and mix gently so as not to split the beans.
4. Add salt
and pepper to your desired taste
5. Heat
saucepan and mix for approximately 15 minutes until contents is bubbling. You
want to boil off liquid from the tinned tomatoes. Turn off heat mix and let
sauce cool for an hour. Sauce will become thick.
6. Ladle
half the sauce from the saucepan and spread it over the corn chips in the
baking dish, make sure to cover all corn chips otherwise exposed chips may burn
in oven.
7. Set the
microwave to oven function, set the temperature to 250 degrees Celsius for 8
minutes. During cooking watch dish to make sure corn chips are not burning.
8. Serve
when cooked
9. Repeat from step 6 for your second serve of nachos.
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