Salmon with Spinach Doria with Miso Cream Sauce

Salmon with Spinach Doria with Miso Cream Sauce- 鮭とほうれん草のみそクリームドリア

Now that I’ve listed a few Doria recipes using everyday vegetables and meat, I’ve decided to post this great recipe that uses traditional Japanese ingredients like miso and dashi. If you don’t like salmon, you can use any white fish that has no bones!

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Seven Samurai (1954)

Hailed as the greatest film in the history of Japanese cinema, Seven Samurai is director Akira Kurosawa’s undisputed masterpiece. Arguably the greatest of all jidai-gecki (or historical swordplay films), Kurosawa’s classic 1954 action drama has never been surpassed in terms of sheer power of emotion, kinetic energy, and dynamic character development.

Seven Samurai

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Chicken with Egg Doria in Curry Cream Sauce

CHICKEN with EGG DORIA with Curry Cream-えびドリア

I guess you can describe Doria as a Japanese risotto. There are so many creative ways to spice up this dish. You can almost use any meat or vegetable, the ideas are endless. So if you’re in the mood to be creative tonight, try this recipe!

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Hanzo the Razor (1975)

Are you a fan of samurai films, but wish they were somehow…dirtier? Welcome to the deranged world of Hanzo the Razor, a weird blend of swordplay and sexploitation.

Hanzo

The first Hanzo movie, Sword of Justice, came out a year after Shaft and Dirty Harry and fuses the influence of both: stout and surly Hanzo (Shintaro Katsu), a rebellious yet obsessively moral samurai, is also enormously well-endowed and provides almost unbearable pleasure to the women he “interrogates”–that is to say, rapes in the name of the law.

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Shrimp Doria

SHRIMP DORIA-えびドリア

Doria is a sort of like a gratin but instead of using pasta noodles you use good ol’ rice. This is a great recipe if you have some leftover rice and you just don’t know what to do with it. Usually this dish is served piping hot from the oven but unless you are very wealthy or lucky…you almost never will find an oven in a Japanese home. Instead you will find a toaster oven. When you only have a toaster oven, you are pretty much limited to making small dishes and a portion at a time, and who has time for that? So this recipe gives you a great way to use a frying pan so you can make at least 2-3 portions at a time and it tastes just as good.

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