Chicken and tofu meatloaf (matsukazeyaki)

Matsukazeyaki（松風焼き）

What the kind of dish is Matsukazeyaki??

It’s a meatloaf-like dish made with tofu and chicken. It is often eaten on New Year’s Day. Easy to make if you have a food processor.

By adding firm tofu to minced chicken, it has a fluffy and soft texture.

In terms of nutrition, you can ingest minerals such as magnesium and calcium, and it is high in protein and low in fat.

This is a healthy dish recommended during the year-end and New Year holidays, when it’s easy to binge-drink.

Originally, poppy seeds are used, but white sesame, which is easy to obtain, is used.

Each New Year’s dish has a meaning. Matsu means pine. Pine represents peace and longevity as it maintains its edge even in winter and has a long lifespan.

Also, Matsukazeyaki has decorations on the front, but the back is flat. This expresses “no secrets”.

Matukazeyaki contains the desire to live straight without doing bad things for the year.

NUTRITION FACTS

148 kcal Protein 14.3g Fat 5.5g Salt Equivalent 1.3g

INGREDIENTS(4SERVINGS)

☆firm tofu 100g
☆ｍinced chicken 200g
☆egg 50g
☆onion 150g
☆sugar 15g
☆white miso 20g
☆soy sauce 10g
☆sake 15g
ground sesame 5g
green laver moderate amount

This recipe use firm tofu, not silken tofu otherwise it takes a long time to drain and it becomes too soft.

Check out this article for more information on types of tofu.　👉　Tofu topped with meat miso (niku miso)

COOKING INSTRUCTIONS

①Wrap the tofu with kitchen paper and put it on a colander. Place a weight on top and drain for 1 hour. Heat in the microwave for a few minutes if you are in a hurry.

②Fold the cooking sheet to fit the mold

③Preheat the oven to 170°C.　170 degrees Celsius is 338 degrees Fahrenheit

④Put ｍinced chicken, egg, onion, sugar, white miso, soy sauce and sake into a food processor.

⑤Pour into the mold and bake on the bottom rack of the oven for 40 minutes.

It was a 15 cm square and about 2 cm thick. The oven I use is Toshiba’s “Ishigama Dome”. I like that it won’t break even after 10 years of use and is easy to clean.

⑥Take off the heat and remove from the mold. Be careful not to burn yourself with water spilling when you take it out of the oven.

⑦Sprinkle with sesame and green laver.

naokoan

I’m Naoko. After graduating from a registered dietitian training school, I am working as a registered dietitian at a hospital in Japan. I love to cook and eat delicious food. I make recipes with calorie counting. The reason why all the ingredients are written as “g” is to accurately calculate calories. I am especially good at cooking with pressure cookers and ovens. I would like to introduce the recipe to foreigners who are interested in Japanese food. So I started writing Japanese home cooking recipes on my blog in English. 大学卒業後、管理栄養士として病院で勤務しています。レシピはカロリー計算を出来るだけ正確に行いたいので“g”で表記しています。日本の家庭料理のレシピを英語で紹介しています。圧力鍋とオーブンを使う料理が得意です。日本食・和食に興味を持ってもらえたら嬉しいです。よろしくお願いします(*ˊᵕˋ)♡‧₊