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Miyazaki Cooking Class
Dango-jiru and Toriten, the regional cuisines in Oita!

Cooking Class Menu

Dango-jiru is a local food in Oita and is also eaten widely in northern part of Kyushu. It consists of flat wheat flour noodles in a miso soup along with pork and vegetables such as burdock root, carrots, and shiitake mushrooms.
Toriten is chicken tempura, which is another local speciality in Oita. This is a kind of fried chicken and usually served with ponzu, soy sauce with citrus juice, and Japanese mustered.
Organically grown rice which came from our small rice field.

• Tempura

  Tempura (天ぷら) is a classical Portuguese dish brought to and popularized by Japan, consisting of seafood or vegetables that have been battered and deep fried. Tempura is a typical home-style cooking in Japan. It is often referred to as a representative dish to Japan. Although there are various theories, it is said that Tokugawa Ieyasu, the general of the Edo period, liked tempura so much that he allegedly died from eating too much.

• Rice

  Rice is a staple food in Japan. In all most every family, there is a rice cooker. There is variety of Japanese rice brands such as Koshihikari and Hitomebore.

• Miso Soup

  Miso soup is a traditional Japanese soup. It's base is "dashi" (Japanese fish stock) and Miso paste. Common added ingredients are Tofu, Green onion and deep‐fried tofu but differs by personal preference. The type of miso is different from region. In western and Easter Japan white miso is mostly used.

Cooking Class Information

In this cooking class, we make Dango-jiru together. The term Dango in Japanese usually means round balls of dough made from a mixture of rice, millet, or wheat flour with water. However, Oita’s dango are known for their flat shape. We knead the dough, rest it for a while, shape it into a flat noodle and boil it in the hot water. While resting the dough, we prepare miso soup. When the soup is ready we put boiled Dango noodle into the soup!


We dip the marinated chicken with batter made from flour and egg dissolved in water and deep-fry it. We can enjoy the freshly fried crispy chicken tempura!

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About Host

We are family with 3kids living in the countryside of Oita prefecture.

My husband and I love to travel and he traveled around the world 10 years ago. When we were traveling, we enjoyed communicating with local people very much, especially visiting local market and eating local food with them.

As we don’t have opportunities to travel these days we’d love to accept travelers to share our culture and show our daily life in the countryside.

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Area

Exact location provided after booking.

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