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Serves: 2

By: Koj

These amounts will serve 2 people

Ingredients

Store cupboard ingredients

• Gin
• Sugar
• Soy sauce
• Runny honey
• Peanut butter
• Roasted, salted peanuts
• Ice cubes

Fresh ingredients

• 1 lemon
• 1 aubergine
• 1 bunch of spring onions
• 1 head of pak choi (or similar greens such as cabbage)
• 250g lean pork mince

Instructions

Store cupboard ingredients

1. I do not include soy sauce in the ingredients goodie box because most people already have it in their store cupboard. Any 'naturally brewed' Japanese soy sauce will do, preferably 'dark soy sauce'.
2. Peanut butter. You can use crunchy or smooth, depending on preference, but I do prefer to use peanut butter that does not contain palm oil. If the ingredients feature nothing but 100% peanuts, that’s a good sign. Recommended brands are Meridian, Whole Earth and Clearspring.

Dietary requirements

1. Please let me know if you have any dietary requirements as we can tailor the recipes. For example, dashi usually contains fish but there is a vegan alternative called kombu dashi, which is made with kelp seaweed.
2. If you can't find dashi, you could use vegetable stock or, at a push, water.
3. Clearspring has a useful guide to types of soy sauce. Look for tamari if you want a gluten free soy sauce.
4. Pork is traditional for mabodofu, but you could substitute beef, lamb, turkey or soya protein mince (dried or frozen).

Alcohol

1. My recipes will often call for my own Japanese -inspired gin, Kojin, but it is currently out of production. Other Japanese gins you may try include:
2. 135 East Hyogo Dry Gin
3. Nikka Coffey Gin
4. Roku, by Suntory Distillery
5. I have several non-alcoholic cocktail recipes, please contact me for details.