Hiya-Yakko (chilled soft tofu) 🌱
Hiya-Yakko (chilled soft tofu) 🌱

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Tofu is good simple food and can goes well with various other ingredients and seasonings. The word 'hiya' (冷) means chilled, that makes sense. But you may wonder why the next word is not 'tofu'.

To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook hiya-yakko (chilled soft tofu) 🌱 using 6 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Hiya-Yakko (chilled soft tofu) 🌱:
  1. Take Silken tofu - cubed
  2. Get Spring onions - greens
  3. Make ready Soy sauce (or ponzu)
  4. Prepare Ginger - finely grated
  5. Prepare Ice and a little water
  6. Get Lemon verbena (optional)

This hiyayakko recipe features chilled tofu with an assortment of savoury and aromatic toppings. Cool down with delicious Japanese summer dishes like hiyayakko chilled tofu. • In Japanese, Hiya means cold and Yakko is an old term which means to cut something into cubes. Hiyayakko (冷奴, cold tofu) is a Japanese dish made with chilled tofu and toppings. The choice of toppings on the tofu vary among households and restaurants, but a standard combination is chopped green onion with katsuobushi (dried skipjack tuna flakes) and soy sauce.

Instructions to make Hiya-Yakko (chilled soft tofu) 🌱:
  1. Lightly press the tofu, cube and place in Iced water. You want them to sit in top to chill rather than fully submerge. I like to flavour the water with lemon verbena from my garden.
  2. Prepare your side dipping dishes - grated ginger (grate very finely and make a little mound) soy or ponzu (I mixed soy and a little yuzu juice) and finely slice the greens of spring onions.
  3. Dip your chilled tofu square into your dipping plates.

Hiya means cool, and yakko once referred to samurai's servants during the Edo period. They wore a square-shaped crest measuring three by three centimetres, so when tofu was cut into cubes of that size one would say it was cut into yakko. This is quick and simple Japanese recipe is great for the summer. This Japanese Chilled Tofu Appetizer is not for beginning tofu Western tastes. Pictured above is classic Hiya Yakko, blocks of cold tōfu garnished with grated fresh ginger, chopped scallions and curly flakes of smoky, dry-roasted katsuo-bushi.

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