Smart Recipes with Umami

Cold beef salad with tomato oil-free dressing

  • Umami-rich Recipes with Beef

The tomato oil-free dressing has sweetness, sourness and umami.Quickly boiled beef and the tomato dressing are a great pair. The colorful appearance increases your appetite.

 Ingredients( for 2 persons )

  • 200g of paper-thin sliced beef
  • 1/2 bundle of Japanese mizuna
  • 1/2 cucumber
  • 5 cherry tomatoes
  • 4 tbsp ponzu soy sauce

 

 Recipes

  • 1. Cut cherry tomatoes in quarter. Cut shiso into thin strips.
  • 2. Mix 1 and ponzu soysauce and set in a refrigerator.
  • 3. Swish the beef around a few seconds in a boiling water then let them cool down on a strainer. Cut mizuna into 4cm-length. Cut cucumber lengthwise and cut it into thin and diagonal slices.

Umami Score of Main Ingredients in the Recipe

牛肉

Beef

Inosinate :
80mg/100g

ミニトマト

Cherry tomatoes

Glutamate :
170〜200mg/100g

調理時間 15分

  • Cooking time : 15 minutes
  • Calorific Value : 450 kcal

Beef is rich in inosinate and cherry tomato is rich in glutamate and so forth. Pairing of these two ingredients provides umami synergy and makes dish tasty.

Source

「うま味」パワーの活用便利帳)

By using umami power, make your daily dishes more delicious

Seishun shuppannsha 2013 August

  • About 150 recipes by cooking specialist Fumiyo Kawakami are presented in the book.
  • The Umami Information Center provides basic umami information and Dr. Takashi Yamamoto, our president, supervised the book.