Monday, July 7, 2008

KARE-PAN

Have you ever tried kare-pan before ?
it is Japanese bread filed with pasty curry and deep fried.
I never even thought of make this at my kitchen.
suddenly hit me kare-pan yesterday for some reason.
I was in the middle of making bread.
usually just bread, or sometimes wrapped with mustard,cheese & ham.
or chocolate.
but I wanted something different, so this is perfect time to try kare-pan.

I made curry-like filling. nothing like real curry.
sweetened with mirin, soy sauce for japanese-y flavor.
wrap curry with dough, then fried.
my vegetable oil had ran out, so I fried them in olive oil.

I was't sure that how much olive oil add flavor to it.
it didn't affected at all.

bread came out perfect.tasted just like the one you can buy bakery.
I don't think anybody make kare-pan if you were living in japan.
because they are available every bakery.
but it was nice experience for me to make something very familiar food in my kitchen.

especially for me, kare-pan was one of my favorite food when I was kid.
so It was very satisfied experience .

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