Dwelling-Made Hen Ham Recipe (Tori Hamu)

My Dwelling-Made Hen Ham has a easy flavouring, however it’s so juicy and tender that you just received’t need to purchase sliced rooster ham from grocery store anymore.

This Dwelling-Made Hen Ham known as ‘tori hamu’ (鶏ハム) in Japanese. The phrase ‘tori‘ (鶏) means rooster and ‘hamu‘ (ハム) is ham. It originated in Japan from a recipe posted on an nameless Web bulletin board in 2001.

Tori hamu isn’t like a pressed rooster ham. It’s made out of rooster breast fillet, and the method of creating tori hamu is totally totally different from the business rooster ham. It’s moderately a sous vide rooster, however Japanese individuals name it rooster ham as a result of the feel is much like pressed rooster ham.

You Can Do Sous Vide And not using a Particular Software

Sous vide is a cooking technique of vacuum sealing meals (normally meat and fish) and cooking it in temperature-controlled water (normally 55-71°C/130-160°F) for an extended than normal cooking time. You’ll get a chunk of meat that’s simply cooked by, with out dropping moisture.

Within the case of rooster, the advisable cooking temperature is 75°C/165°F, at which micro organism will probably be useless in 3 seconds. The explanation you may nonetheless cook dinner rooster at a decrease temperature safely, e.g. sous vide, is that at 63°C /145°F for instance, the time taken to kill micro organism is 10-Quarter-hour and also you cook dinner the rooster for for much longer than that.

I don’t have a vacuum sealing machine or a sous vide machine. And the originator of Dwelling-Made Hen Ham didn’t have these machines both. So, I used a few primitive strategies of mimicking sous vide.

Technique 1 – Use the Heat Mode function of a rice cooker.
Technique 2 – Use a thick bottomed giant pot.

And not using a machine, it’s not straightforward to maintain a constant water temperature. The above technique is to not preserve the temperature constant, however to begin at the next temperature and scale back the pace of dropping the warmth, ensuing within the ideally suited temperature on common. The water temperature on the time of taking the rooster out was round 66°C /151°F.

It’s fairly straightforward to do, and the cooked rooster could be very juicy.

Though the rooster is evenly flavoured, you may get pleasure from extra flavouring when you’ve got it with a sauce equivalent to ponzu, soy sauce, or sesame soy dressing. It’s also possible to eat it with a condiment equivalent to mustard, wasabi, or rāyu. In in the present day’s recipe, I included a sesame sauce that’s made with a sesame paste.

What’s in My Dwelling-made Hen Ham

• Hen breast fillet, with out pores and skin on
• Boiling water

My rooster fillet was 300g/0.7lb+. For 300-350g/0.7-0.8lb breast rooster fillet, you will have a minimal of 1500ml/3.2pt boiling water. If the quantity of boiling water is much less, the temperature of the water reduces too quick, and the rooster won’t cook dinner by.

Additionally, you will have to take the rooster out of the fridge no less than half-hour earlier than cooking to stop the water temperature from decreasing too quick.

Marinade

To present a great flavour to the rooster, I put the rooster in a dashi-flavoured marinade. In case you are keen on herbs, you may add a small quantity of dried basil or oregano.

• Cooking sake
• Water
• Salt
• Black pepper
• Dashi powder

Sesame Sauce

• White sesame paste
• Soy sauce
• Rice wine vinegar
• Sugar
• Ginger juice (squeeze the juice out of grated ginger)
• Rāyu (elective)

I used Carwari model Japanese sesame paste, however you should utilize Chinese language sesame paste or tahini. The Chinese language sesame paste is darker in color and the nutty flavour is stronger. Tahini is made out of uncooked sesame seeds and the sesame flavour isn’t as robust as others.

Left: Chinese language sesame paste. Proper: Carwari model white sesame paste.

Along with the above components, you will have a zipper lock bag, and both a rice cooker with the Heat Mode function that may be turned on and off manually, or a thick-bottomed pot, relying on the strategy you employ.

How you can Make Dwelling-made Hen Ham (see the video)

It is very important take the rooster out of the fridge no less than half-hour earlier than cooking, in order that the water temperature doesn’t drop an excessive amount of when the rooster is put within the water tub.

1. Trim fats bits off the fillet and rinse it in a bowl full of water. Pat dry.
2. Put the rooster fillet and all of the Marinade components in a zipper lock bag.
3. Therapeutic massage gently in order that the marinade components coat the fillet evenly.
4. Take away air within the bag as a lot as attainable and seal the bag.
5. Use one of many following two strategies to cook dinner rooster.

Technique 1 – use rice cooker:

1. Place the rooster within the inside bowl of the rice cooker, then pour the boiling water over the rooster to submerge the bag of rooster below water.
2. Place the lid on and switch the swap for heat mode. Depart it on for 45 minutes.
3. Take away the bag from the rice cooker, then take away the rooster from the bag.

Technique 2 – use a thick-bottomed pot with a lid (not in video):

1. Put the boiling water in a thick-bottomed pot and convey it to a boil over excessive warmth.
2. Gently submerge the bag of rooster below water.
3. When the water begins boiling once more, flip the warmth off and put the lid on.
4. Depart it for 1 hour.
5. Take away the bag from the water, then take away the rooster from the bag.

Serving

1. Put the Sesame Sauce components in a bowl and blend properly.
2. Slice the rooster thinly.
3. Place the sliced rooster on a plate.
4. Dribble the sesame sauce over the rooster.

It’s best to eat the rooster as quickly as you make it so that you just get the juiciest rooster. You’ll be able to preserve it for 3-4 days within the fridge, however the longer you allow it the much less juicy it will get.

After preserving the Tori Hamu for a few days within the fridge, I used the sliced rooster as a topping for a bowl of ramen. It was good!

Yumiko

Watch How To Make It

Dwelling-made Hen Ham Recipe (Tori Hamu)

My Dwelling-Made Hen Ham has a easy flavouring, however it’s so juicy and tender that you just will not need to purchase sliced rooster ham from grocery store anymore. It isn’t like a processed rooster ham however moderately a sous vide rooster. However Japanese individuals name it ‘tori hamu’, which means rooster ham, as a result of the feel is much like the pressed rooster ham (however higher!). See the video.

I listed two totally different strategies of creating Tori Hamu.

Cook dinner Time assumes a rice cooker is used.

Do not forget to see the part ‘MEAL IDEAS’ under the recipe card! It offers you an inventory of dishes that I’ve already posted and this recipe that may make up a whole meal. I hope it’s of assist to you.

Recipe Kind:

Most important

Delicacies:

Japanese

Key phrase:

Hen breast recipe, rooster ham, home-made ham

Serves: 2

Writer: Yumiko

Components (tbsp=15ml, cup=250ml)

• 1
  rooster breast
  (300-350g/0.7-0.8lb, pores and skin off)
• 1500-2000ml/3.2-4.2pt
  boiling water
  (notice 1)

Sesame Sauce

• 2
  tbsp
  white sesame paste
  (notice 3)
• 2
  tsp
  soy sauce
• 2
  tsp
  rice wine vinegar
• 2
  tsp
  sugar
• ¼
  tsp
  ginger juice
  (squeeze juice out of grated ginger)
• A couple of
  drops
  rāyu
  (elective, notice 4)

Directions

Getting ready Hen

1. Trim off the string of fats and skinny blood veins if they’re on the floor of the rooster.

2. Put the rooster and all of the Marinade components in a zipper lock bag.

3. Therapeutic massage the bag properly, guaranteeing that Marinade components are combined and have coated the meat evenly.

4. Take away as a lot air as attainable out of the bag and seal it.

Making Tori Hamu (decide one of many two strategies)

Technique 1 – use a rice cooker with Heat Mode function

1. Place the bag of rooster within the inside bowl of your rice cooker.

2. Add the boiling water to the inside bowl, guaranteeing that the rooster is submerged in water.

3. Shut the rice cooker and switch the Heat Mode swap on. Depart it for 45 minutes.

4. Take away the bag from the water and take the rooster piece out of the bag (notice 5).

Technique 2 – use a thick bottomed pot

1. Put the boiling water in a pot over excessive warmth, then place the bag within the water, guaranteeing that the entire rooster piece is submerged within the water.

2. When the water begins boiling once more, flip the warmth off. Place a lid on and go away it for 1 hour (do not transfer the pot from the burner).

3. Take away the bag from the water and take the rooster piece out of the bag (notice 5).

Serving

1. Reduce the rooster into skinny slices.

2. Place the sliced rooster on a serving plate, with julienned cucumbers or inexperienced salad (not in components checklist).

3. Dribble the Sesame Sauce over the rooster.

Sesame Sauce (make sauce whereas cooking rooster)

1. Put sesame paste and soy sauce in a small bowl and blend properly.

2. Add vinegar, sugar, and ginger juice to the bowl and blend properly.

3. Add just a few drops of rāyu (if utilizing) and blend.

Recipe Notes

1. You want a minimal 1500ml/3.2pt of boiling water to cook dinner a 300-350g/0.7-0.8lb breast fillet. If the water is lower than this, the water temperature reduces too quick earlier than the rooster will get cooked by.

My rice cooker wanted 1800ml/3.8pt of boiling water to comfortably submerge the rooster within the water.

In case you are utilizing a pot, the amount of water can range relying on the dimensions of your pot. For the 23cm/9 1⁄16″ saucepan that I used, I wanted 2000ml/4.2pt water. Should you use a smaller pot you may scale back the quantity of boiling water, however at least 1500ml/3.2pt.

In case you are making 2 breast fillets of the same dimension, you will have minimal 2000ml/4.2pt of boiling water.

2. In case you are keen on herbs, you may add a small quantity of basil or oregano.

3. I used Carwari model sesame paste, however you should utilize Chinese language sesame paste or tahini. Chinese language sesame paste (see the pattern photograph within the submit) is darker in color and the nutty flavour is stronger. Tahini is made out of uncooked sesame seeds and the sesame flavour isn’t as robust as others.

4. You’ll be able to substitute rāyu with Chinese language chilli oil.

5. The marinade has a great flavour and can be utilized to pour over the rooster as a substitute of utilizing the Sesame Sauce. Put the marinade by a sieve to take away rooster bits.

6. Vitamin per serving. It’s assumed that 1/2 of the marinade is absorbed into the rooster.

Hen with out Sesame Sauce:
serving: 162g energy: 186kcal fats: 4g (5%) saturated fats: 0.9g (4%) trans fats: 0.0g polyunsaturated fats: 0.7g monounsaturated fats: 1.1g ldl cholesterol: 110mg (37%) sodium: 660mg (29%) carbohydrates: 0.2g (0%) dietary fibre: 0g (0%) sugar: 0g protein: 34g vitamin D: 0mcg (0%) calcium: 9mg (1%) iron: 0.6mg ( 3%) potassium: 513mg (11%)

Sesame Sauce:
serving: 30g energy: 109kcal fats: 8g (10%) saturated fats: 1.1g (6%) trans fats: 0.0g polyunsaturated fats: 3.5g monounsaturated fats: 3g ldl cholesterol: 0mg (0%) sodium: 297mg (13%) carbohydrates: 7.7g (3%) dietary fibre: 0.8g (3%) sugar: 4.2g protein: 3g vitamin D: 0mcg (0%) calcium: 23mg (2%) iron: 0.7mg (4%) potassium: 93.1mg (2%)