Sozai Cooking School

#DecorativeSushi making with team #HyperJapan🍣 Sozai Mobile🚗offers next level of workshop at your place🏢. We enjoyed very pleasant time with very creative people.👥 For the details, please contact us https://www.sozai.co.uk/corporates

Spring, time for #NewBeginnings! April is the start of the #NewSchoolTerm in #Japan. Randoseru can be metaphor of the excitement of children aged 6, starting school👧 Nowadays, surprisingly this rather expensive and craftily created school backpack🎒 is popular among foreign adults to wear for its durability and quality. Mind you! No Japanese adults wear it as we wore it enough during our primary school years. 😁Would you like to #StartSomethingNew this Spring? How about a new culinary skill? Browse our #SpringClasses https://www.sozai.co.uk/lessons

Vegetable #makizushi are cheery, colourful, and perfect for #picnics ! See Izumi's menu below, featured on eho chef #hasslefree #homedining

Bento🍱 (Box) In Japan🇯🇵 the word Bento has been used from 13th century and originally means home cooked & home packed meals🥢 Bentos are packed with nourishment and a way of showing love for the family. Mothers nowadays still endeavour to create nutritious and eye-catching Bentos so that children can enjoy eating, sometimes elaborately decorated to look like characters. Oh! they are too pretty to devour ❤️ #Japan #bento #dekoben

Vegan Sushi🍣 Sushi does not have to mean raw fish! 🐠If Sushi Is combined with only plants based ingredients🥑, you will find the most delicious and health-conscious food. Our vegan class teaches you everything to make tasty & colourful Sushi. And also focusing you to have some skills. For the details, please visit our website https://www.sozai.co.uk/lessons/7861

Famous Cherry Blossoms in Japan We Japanese all cherish Sakura🌸/Cherry blossom not only for the lavish beauty but also for the short-lived life. It is a metaphor of human life, blooming season is powerful, glorious but tragically brief. We gather under the trees enjoying food🍱, drink🍶, songs🎤 and companionship as Sakura teaches us “Life is short.” The season starts around 20th March in Tokyo area.

Miso is one of the most essential condiments in Japanese diet, along with soy sauce. It provides the gut with beneficial bacteria that help us to stay healthy, good gut health is known to be linked to our overall mental and physical wellness. Miso is rich in essential minerals and a good source of various B vitamins, vitamins E, K and folic acid.
Aspergillus oryzae, known as koji, a filamentous fungus is used to ferment the soy beans. Koji is also responsible for the fermenta...tion of sake and soy sauce, so it is sometimes affectionally called 'Japan's national fungus'.
Miso is extremely regional and diverse in Japan, some are pale while others are red, and some are almost black. Miso varies in sweetness and saltiness.
During the class, you will learn:
*How miso is made *What determines the colour and taste of miso *What Koji is *How to prepare the soy beans before cooking *How to cook the soy beans *How to mix the ingredients *How best to store the miso and ferment *How to cook the following 4 simple miso recipes: (1) Baked aubergine with miso paste (2) Perfect everyday miso soup (3) Miso rice ball (4) Miso dip with veg sticks
At the end of the class, you will enjoy a wonderfully homely miso soup and the delicious miso dishes we made during the class, along with a glass of refreshment of your choice. Full miso making recipe is provided by email after the class.
You will take home about 1kg of fresh miso to ferment at home which will mature over the following 6 months before they are ready to be used.
The class size is small and it is held at the instructor Akemi's own kitchen, in an intimate environment where you will feel at home. The instructori is a certified Japanese miso sommelier.
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Hinamatsuri/the doll festival㊗️ is celebrated on March 3 to pray and thank for the continued health and happiness of female children.👧 For 1 month around the date, ceramic dolls 🎎dressed in the decorative robes of the imperial court in Heian period (794–1185) are displayed. Some families buy a new set of dolls when a daughter is born, while others pass down from one generation to the next. You can find the ornate and delicate Japanese craftwork in them. And of course, Sushi🍣 (Chirashi-zushi) is eaten to ensure good fortune. Browse classes at sozai.co.uk

Do you know we offer classes for great team building/private party 🍣🍜🍰🍶🍻🥂 by our experts who have hosted many happy groups? 😋🤩 our instructors can even visit your office to run Sushi Making workshops!

Japanese Super Vegan Food/ Shojin Ryori🍱 Shojin Ryori is the traditional dining style of Buddhist monks in Japan for over 800 years. Fundamentally it is the cuisine without meat🍖, fish🐟 or other animal products and it involves no bloodshed. Shojin signifies “devotion” and the spirit is respect and gratitude for the nature. 🌽🌿 Sozai is now preparing a special Shojin Ryori class for vegans. Are you ready for that?❤️

Hocho-do, 包丁道, is an artistic ritual of filleting fish🐟 with only chopsticks🥢 and knife, without touching by hand!🖐 The skill shows much respect and appreciation to the fish and how Japanese value the masterly usage of knives. More about the ritual here: https://bit.ly/2RJav9V Sozai also has a class for mastering Knife Skills though It is NOT solemn ritual! 😁 Book now, only 3 spots left! https://www.sozai.co.uk/lessons/7461

Setsubun/Mamemaki👹 On 3rd February, we celebrate the day throwing roasted soy beans out of the door at a family member playing 'Oni', evil spirit, with the chant “Oni wa soto (Demons OUT! ) Fuku wa uchi (Luck IN!) Then we eat as many soy beans as your age and of course, 'ehomaki': Good fortune Sushi Rolls. You can learn the beauty of making Sushi Rolls with us🥢

Well done to you all!!! Superb class of this afternoon cooking the black cod and homely dishes! We got a lot of fun making the most authentic Japanese omelette. Check out the next available class in our website! www.sozai.co.uk

Valentine’s Day in Japan!💋 Only in Japan🇯🇵 (I suppose!), the presents are one-sided, from female to male on the Valentine’s Day. Usually girls are giving chocolates🍫 to boys, not only to their special loves but to male co-workers and male-friends too, funny, it is not?🤪 So girls are busy preparing homemade heart shaped❤️ chocolates at this time of the year. We don't have chocolate lessons but how about a heart-shaped egg🥚 for your ramen🍜to share with your loved ones? I am sure It will be a happy and yummy experience!

謹賀新年🌸 Happy New Year & Happy New Life Skills!! Authentic Japanese food at Sozai. All classes are offered as single sessions. Please check out various of our cooking classes. www.sozai.co.uk
Do you know you can host your group lesson at your venue with our instructors? Please contact us for further information. info@sozai.co.uk

Eat Soba (Japanese buckwheat noodles)on New Year’s Eve🥢 You will be amazed to know how well food is associated with seasonal events in Japan. On New Year’s Eve, we eat soba noodles, known as “toshikoshi (crossing the year) soba, wishing for a life to be long like noodles. Also as soba is easily cut by chopsticks, it signify that the bad luck of the current year will be cut away to welcome the new year. Why don’t you eat soba to usher good luck in the coming year? It goes well with both hot and cold soup. 🍥

Healthy, popular & versatile seasoning, MISO!🍯 I have never met people who do not like Miso. It goes well with variety of dishes and gives deeply savoury tastes to anything from miso soup to grilled fish.🐟 It is powerfully healthy food and one cup of miso soup🥣 a day, not apple🍎, keeps the doctor away.👨‍🔬 The problem is good Miso is hard to come by here in the UK. But with our certified Miso sommelier, you can not only make your own miso but also delicious dishes with it.🍲... Why don’t you visit our Miso class and make yourself healthier next year?🧘🏻‍♂️ https://www.sozai.co.uk/lessons/7311
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Wonderful fun way to learn to cook and enjoy Japanese food. Highly recommended and you can do bite size lessons. Of course!

Spent a wonderful afternoon learning to create dinner party sushi � Akemi was a great tutor and I enjoyed the pace of the class. Would very much recommend to anyone who already has a basic level of sushi knowledge that they would like to expand. Thanks very much for having us!!

Had a great time! I highly recommend doing one of their classes if you're a foodie like me. Thank you Sozai.

Great sake tasting event at Sozai cooking'scool this evening! We have learned so much about sake in only one hour. Very informative and delicious snacks. Highly recommendable. Also a nice opportunity to buy special sakes.

A gifted Sushi Master Class from Yuka was excellent.Her informative introduction and tutorials were brilliant.I learnt more than just making sushi look nice it tasted amazing.

Highly recommend this course. The food was the best n I made it!!Who knew I had hidden talents! Thankyou Yuka.���

Wonderful fun way to learn to cook and enjoy Japanese food. Highly recommended and you can do bite size lessons. Of course!

Spent a wonderful afternoon learning to create dinner party sushi � Akemi was a great tutor and I enjoyed the pace of the class. Would very much recommend to anyone who already has a basic level of sushi knowledge that they would like to expand. Thanks very much for having us!!

Had a great time! I highly recommend doing one of their classes if you're a foodie like me. Thank you Sozai.

Great sake tasting event at Sozai cooking'scool this evening! We have learned so much about sake in only one hour. Very informative and delicious snacks. Highly recommendable. Also a nice opportunity to buy special sakes.

A gifted Sushi Master Class from Yuka was excellent.Her informative introduction and tutorials were brilliant.I learnt more than just making sushi look nice it tasted amazing.

Highly recommend this course. The food was the best n I made it!!Who knew I had hidden talents! Thankyou Yuka.���

Wonderful fun way to learn to cook and enjoy Japanese food. Highly recommended and you can do bite size lessons. Of course!

Spent a wonderful afternoon learning to create dinner party sushi � Akemi was a great tutor and I enjoyed the pace of the class. Would very much recommend to anyone who already has a basic level of sushi knowledge that they would like to expand. Thanks very much for having us!!

Had a great time! I highly recommend doing one of their classes if you're a foodie like me. Thank you Sozai.

Great sake tasting event at Sozai cooking'scool this evening! We have learned so much about sake in only one hour. Very informative and delicious snacks. Highly recommendable. Also a nice opportunity to buy special sakes.

A gifted Sushi Master Class from Yuka was excellent.Her informative introduction and tutorials were brilliant.I learnt more than just making sushi look nice it tasted amazing.

Highly recommend this course. The food was the best n I made it!!Who knew I had hidden talents! Thankyou Yuka.���