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Dried vegetables take the lead! Creating recipes for dishes you'll want to eat once a week
For "Chefon," the online cooking class run by Kai Corporation, we produced videos and recipes for all 8 dishes of "Dishes You'll Want to Eat Once a Week"—advocated by Mikizo Hashimoto, owner of the Michelin one-star "Ichirin"—using dried vegetables with concentrated umami.
About Chefon
"Chefon" is an online cooking class run by Kai Corporation. Inviting top chefs and popular cooks as instructors, it delivers many recipe videos that let you learn professional techniques and authentic flavors easily at home. It offers a rich variety of genres that everyone from beginners to cooking enthusiasts can enjoy.
"Ichirin" owner Mikizo Hashimoto (instructor introduction)
Born in Kyoto in 1970. He entered the path of training at 18, then moved to Tokyo and served as head chef of a Kyoto-cuisine restaurant in Akasaka before opening Ichirin in 2007. He earned a Michelin one star in 2009 and a two star in 2012. Not confined to his restaurant, he never forgets his effort to make Japanese cuisine known to more people—appearing on TV programs and supervising and developing cooking tools—broadening his fields of activity as a chef at the forefront of Japanese cuisine.Ichirin website
Recipes using dried vegetables
For this project, we created 8 recipes that are simple, delicious, and easy to bring into everyday cooking, based on the "umami that overflows from vegetables" of dried vegetables. With Chef Mikizo Hashimoto's signature touch, they come out with an authentic flavor despite being easy to make.
Sesame cucumber
Manganji peppers and kombu steeped in soy sauce
Kasujiru (sake-lees soup)
Takikomi gohan (seasoned rice)
Yuzu daikon
Vegetable miso
Beni-shoga (ginger and carrot pickled in vinegar)
Chirashi
Dried vegetables with concentrated umami
At Agriture, we work on sustainable ingredient procurement and food-loss reduction—starting with dried vegetables that upcycle off-spec vegetables, along with Kyoto vegetables and heirloom vegetables from various regions.
If your company is considering adopting dried vegetables, please feel free to reach out.
