5 Recipes for Breaking the Fast from Anime, Simple and Filling!

Fasting is a mandatory thing that Muslims must do during the month of Ramadan. During fasting, a person must refrain from eating and drinking, from dawn until dusk.

People who are fasting will usually prepare various kinds of appetizing menus for breaking the fast, especially appetizers in the form of snacks. Then, when they run out of ideas or feel bored, they will look for dish recommendations from various media.

Well, especially anime fans, of course you are aware that many anime feature delicious food menus in their stories. Moreover, anime has a theme gourmet, for example Shokugeki no Souma, Isekai Shokudou, and others.

Interestingly, the food shown in the anime can actually be made in real life, and can certainly be a reference for a menu for breaking the fast.

Here are some recipes for breaking the fast from anime that you must try, especially for the appetizer menu. Listen, come on!

1. Dango

dock. White Fox/ Is the Order a Rabbit?

Dango is a typical Japanese snack made from rice flour. This food was introduced in the anime Kimetsu no Yaiba which is Haganezuka’s favorite snack, or in anime Is the Order a Rabbit?

Dango is usually displayed in white, green, and pink. Here’s a simple dango recipe that you can try.

Material:

1. 160 gr rice flour
2. 40 gr glutinous rice flour
3. 60 g granulated sugar
4. 200 ml hot water
5. 1 tsp matcha green tea powder for green coloring
6. Pink food coloring

How to make:

1. Mix and mix all the flour and sugar well.
2. Pour hot water into the dry mixture little by little, stir and knead the dough until smooth.
3. Divide the dango dough into 3, add green and pink coloring to 2 of the dough. One dough can be left white.
4. Shape the dango into a round shape, then thread it onto a special skewer.

2. Taiyaki

Portrait of the Taiyaki anime style iftar menu (doc. Bandai Namco Pictures/Aikatsu Stars)

Taiyaki is known as street food A typical Japanese dish that has a shape like a fish and is filled with red beans, which makes this food have a sweet taste that makes you addicted.

To make taiyaki, you need a special tool in the form of a fish-shaped mold. The ingredients and method for making it are quite easy. Here are the details.

Material:

1. 180 ml liquid milk
2. 40 g granulated sugar
3. 150 g wheat flour
4. 1 egg
5. 1 tsp baking powder
6. ¼ tsp vanilla powder
7. Margarine as spread

Filling ingredients:

1. 100 g red beans
2. 4 tbsp granulated sugar
3. ¼ tsp salt
4. 1 tsp cornstarch
5. Enough water

How to make:

1. Beat the eggs in a bowl, then slowly pour in the milk while stirring until mixed.
2. In a separate bowl, combine flour, sugar, vanilla and baking powder.
3. Add the egg mixture that has been thoroughly mixed previously into the flour mixture, then stir gently until there are no lumps.
4. Spread margasin and heat the mold takiyaki.
5. Over low heat, pour in the mixture takiyaki until half the mold.
6. Fill in the middle takiyaki with red bean paste, then fill the mixture until the mold is full.
7. Takiyaki Ripe when the color is brown.

How to make red bean filling:

1. Soak red beans overnight to make them soft.
2. Wash clean, then boil.
3. Blend until smooth, then cook on Teflon with added salt and sugar.
4. When the water runs out and thickens, add the cornstarch solution.
5. Cook until the red bean paste is cooked and solidified.

3. Gyoza

Portrait of the Gyoza anime style iftar menu (doc. TMS Entertainment/ Amaama to Inazuma)

Gyoza is a typical Japanese dumpling that is quite similar to dimsum. The difference is, gyoza has a stronger taste, and is usually eaten with Japanese soy sauce or ginger. Here’s the recipe gyoza which is easy for you to try to make.

Material:

1. 150 gr shrimp
2. 150 gr chicken
3. 1 tsp ground ginger
4. 1 tsp garlic powder
5. Gyoza skin
6. 1 egg
7. 1 tbsp wheat flour
8. Salt and pepper to taste
9. Cabbage to taste
10. Green onions to taste

How to make:

1. Chop the prawns and chicken quite finely.
2. Cut the cabbage and spring onions into small pieces.
3. Mix shrimp, chicken, eggs, cabbage, spring onions and flour.
4. Add salt and pepper to taste, stir until smooth.
5. Put the mixture into the skin gyozaclose until the shape becomes like a crescent moon.
6. Heat a little oil on a Teflon plate, arrange it gyoza on.
7. When the bottom gyoza is browned, reduce the heat and add water until half high gyoza.
8. Close the Teflon and let all the water evaporate.
9. Serve gyoza along with Japanese foreign soy sauce.

4. Takoyaki

dock. JCStaff/ Bakuman

Takoyaki has a round shape with a typical filling, namely octopus. However, currently in Indonesia many takoyaki are sold with a wider variety of fillings. So, here is an original Japanese-style takoyaki recipe that you can use as a dish to break your fast.

Material:

1. 150 gr wheat flour
2. 1 tbsp cornstarch
3. 2 beaten eggs
4. 100 ml liquid milk
5. 350 ml water
6. ½ tsp baking soda
7. 1 tbsp soy sauce
8. 2 spring onions that have been chopped
9. Crab sticks which has been cut into pieces
10. Octopus that has been cut into pieces
11. Pinch of salt
12. Takoyaki sauce to taste
13. Katsuobushi enough

How to make:

1. Mix all ingredients except crab sticks and octopus, stir well until thickened, then let sit for 1 hour.
2. Heat the takoyaki mold, spread margarine.
3. Pour the mixture up to half the mold, then fill it with the octopus pieces and crab sticks.
4. Pour more mixture until the mold is completely filled.
5. Turn the mixture over until the shape is perfectly round, cook until done.
6. Serve takoyaki with special takoyaki sauce and sprinkles katsuobushi.

5. Curry Pan

Portrait of Kare Pan anime style iftar menu (doc. JC Staff/ Shokugeki no Souma)

Japanese curry bread that has appeared in anime Shokugeki no Souma You can also serve this to break the fast. Here’s a hassle-free recipe that you can try.

Filling ingredients:

1. 200 gr ground beef
2. 1 medium sized carrot and potato
3. 100 gr peas
4. ½ onion
5. 1 clove of garlic
6. To taste instant curry seasoning
7. Pinch of salt

Bread ingredients:

1. 6 pieces of white bread that have been molded into circles
2. 180 gr bread flour
3. 1 beaten egg

How to make:

1. Saute all the ingredients for the Kare Pan filling until cooked, then add the instant curry spices and cook until thickened.
2. When the filling has cooled, pour enough onto the white bread. Cover with other white bread.
3. Coat the white bread that has been filled with topping using egg and bread flour.
4. Fry curry pan until brown.

These are some recipes for breaking the fast from anime that are simple and filling. Good luck!