Fritters

At the Nara Cafe in Tokyo, they have a delicious lunch set that usually comes with a small side dish of simmered ganmodoki (tofu fritters). I tried to make some the other day. One of the ingredients I used was hijiki seaweed. Out of the package came these long strings:


They colour the water while soaking. Eventually they really swelled up a lot!


The recipe was combined from a book and some online recipes but some of the ingredients are hard to find here, so these don't have quite the same texture as the ones I had in Japan. But I think fried tofu tastes delicious even when plain, so these with all the other veggies in them taste really great.


They make a nice snack!