Trying out new recipes for a new start :)  

The last couple of weeks have been hard because of the break up. After days of no appetite I realized I needed to cook something I have never ate before together with my ex. It was Sunday and there was one tiny piece of dried out zucchini and a small potato...

Just enough to make an oyaki. 

五年間付き合った元彼に新しい彼女ができたそうです。結構悲しいけれど、彼も外国にいてきっと一人で寂しくて辛いでしょう。またいつか会えるのといいね。。。そういうことがあって、あまり何もする気がないです。が、何か美味しいものを食べたいと思い始めました。彼と一緒に食べたことがないものを作ってみようと。。。家には特に食材がなく、小麦粉に食べかけのズッキーニとじゃがいも一個です。そして信州のおやきのことを思い出しました。具にはじゃがいもとズッキーニを軽く煮て、味噌と塩を混ぜました。

小麦粉２００グラムと塩ひとつまみ、熱湯１５０ccを混ぜ、練って耳たぶの柔らかさくらいにします。ラップをかけて、一時間くらい冷蔵庫に冷やします。寝た生地を４等分し、丸めて、平たく伸ばし、具をのせ、生地を引っ張りながら包み閉じます。フライパンで色が着くまで両側焼いて、水をお焼きの１／３までに入れて、蒸します。水がなくなったら、出来上がりです。

Oyaki is a type of a filled dumpling, a cousin of gyoza and piroshki. 

Oyaki originated in Nagano prefecture and is traditionally made with buckwheat and wheat flour with variety of bean or vegetable fillings. 

Ingredients: 

• Wheat flour - 200 g
• Boiled water - 150 ml
• Pinch of salt

1. Mix flour with salt and slowly and slowly add hot water. Mix well. 
2. The dough should be soft as an earlobe [yes, I touched my earlobe to be sure :)] 
3. Wrap in plastic and cool in the fridge for about an hour. 
4. *Prepare the filling, or use left overs. It can be anything you like as long as you get rid of excess moisture. I cut and boiled the potato with zucchini until soft, discarded the water and mixed with some salt and miso paste.
5. Take out the dough from the fridge, separate into 4 balls. Slightly dust each ball with flour, flatten with your hands and create four round pieces. Put the filling in the middle of each piece and fold from the outside toward the middle to close. 
6. Lightly grease the pan and fry the oyaki on high, until they start to brown, turn on the other side.
7. Once they are all lightly browned on each side add water, it has to come to about 1/2 of the oyaki 
8. STEEMit ;) 

Enjoy!!! 

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