Osechi Cooking Timeline • Simply One Cookbook

Make a tough plan

• Resolve what to make, purchase, or skip: Cook dinner the dishes your loved ones loves, purchase the labor-intensive ones, and skip something nobody eats.
• Evaluate and replace your recipes from the earlier yr.
• Be life like and prepare dinner a manageable variety of dishes. Begin small, and add 1–2 new dishes annually to regularly construct your menu. Above all, benefit from the course of.

Test your stock

• Test kitchen gear: Collect osechi containers (jubako), serving dishes, cutlery, pots and pans, storage containers—instruments you’ll want for cooking and serving.
• Manage the pantry and test components: See what dry items, condiments, and garnish leaves you’ve got and make an inventory of what to purchase.
• Buy osechi field dividers: Bamboo leaves and mini containers are useful; learn my How you can Pack Osechi Ryori submit to study why.
• Order any lacking objects early, as vacation delivery might be sluggish.

• Plan your format: Use sticky notes to mark what dish goes the place within the jubako. This simplifies meals packing on New 12 months’s Day.
• Print or bookmark the recipes: Learn by the steps and notice the components and gear you’ll need.

Procuring journey #1

Don’t wait until the final minute, as they could promote out!

• Buy dry components:

• Purchase components for accompaniment dishes (non-obligatory):

Clear the home

• Clear the home: Clear the entry, front room, and bogs.
• Make room within the fridge for groceries, ready dishes, and packed containers.
• Plan out your meals by December thirty first: I make straightforward scorching pots (Sukiyaki, Shabu Shabu, and Oden) for dinner and udon noodles for lunch.

Procuring journey #2

• Fill up on common groceries:
  • eggs (put aside some for candy rolled omelette)
  • milk, bread, salad, and fruit for the week.
• Purchase alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks
• Purchase root greens for osechi: This stuff last more, so buy them early:
  • Japanese candy potato (Satsumaimo) for candied chestnuts & candy potatoes
  • carrots for daikon and carrot salad and simmered rooster & greens
  • gobo (burdock root) for pounded burdock root and simmered rooster & greens
  • lotus root (renkon) for pickled lotus root
  • satoimo (Japanese taro) for simmered rooster & greens
  • konnyaku (konjac) for simmered rooster & greens
  • daikon (Japanese radish) for daikon & carrot salad
  • Japanese turnips (kabu) for pickled chrysanthemum turnip.
• Tip: Lower off the leaves of daikon and turnips to forestall them from drying out.

Cooking day 1 + proceed cleansing

• Begin cooking!
  • Make Candied Sardines: Begin with this recipe, because it’s one of many longest enduring amongst all osechi dishes.
  • Make Herring Roe: De-salt, peel, and marinate.
• Clear the home (continued): Clear the eating room and kitchen.

Procuring journey #3 (ultimate)

• Purchase recent components (ultimate procuring journey #3): Don’t purchase these recent proteins and greens previous to December twenty ninth.
  • black tiger shrimp for simmered shrimp
  • yellowtail (hamachi/buri 鰤) for yellowtail teriyaki
  • salted salmon for salmon kombu rolls (or make Salted Salmon the earlier week)
  • ikura (salmon roe)
  • rooster for ozoni and simmered rooster & greens
  • kamaboko fish truffles (pink and white)
  • hanpen fish cake for candy rolled omelette
  • snow peas for simmered rooster & greens
  • mitsuba (Japanese wild parsley) for ozoni
  • yuzu for daikon & carrot salad and ozoni

Cooking day 2

• Work on ornamental cuts: Put together flower-shaped carrots and lotus root and retailer within the fridge; it’s not obligatory however provides a particular contact to your dishes.
• Make vinegared dishes: Dishes in vinegar final a very long time, so prepare dinner them subsequent!
• Retailer all dishes: Pack in hermetic containers and retailer within the fridge.
• Rehydrate components:
  • Soak dried shiitake mushrooms earlier than mattress for chikuzenni.
  • Soak black soybeans as much as 8 hours; soak at midnight and begin cooking at 8 am on December thirtieth.

Cooking day 4

• Cook dinner extra simmered dishes:
• Make grilled dishes (or make the following morning):
• Prep ozoni:
• Lower the kamaboko: Lower the ornamental fish cake and candy omelette.
• Retailer all dishes: Pack in hermetic containers and maintain within the fridge.
• Make Toshikoshi Soba: Don’t neglect to eat soba noodles at present on New 12 months’s Eve!

Earlier than going to mattress…

• Set the desk: Arrange plates, chopsticks, glasses, sake cups, and so forth.
• Chill your drinks: Ensure that there’s sufficient ice within the freezer.

Cooking day 5 (2.5–3 hours)

• Grill: For those who didn’t make it yesterday, prepare dinner Yellowtail Teriyaki and Butter Soy Sauce Scallops and funky to room temp (scorching meals can injury lacquerware and create condensation, which result in spoilage).
• Deliver meals to room temp: If you don’t want to eat chilly meals, take out the dishes from the fridge about half-hour previous to packing. By the point you benefit from the dishes, they need to be room temp.
• Pack in osechi containers: See my step-by-step information on How you can Pack Osechi Ryori in jubako.
• Put together the mochi: Toast mochi and season.
• End the ozoni: Reheat after which add miso (for Kansai-style) and mochi.
• Put together the drinks: Warmth up sake and put together different drinks.
• Clear up the kitchen: You probably have time or a useful visitor, clear the sink and run the dishwasher.