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​It's the final day of My Hero Academia week! I've had so much fun creating recipes for these characters and we're wrapping it up with something more simple: a burger for Denki Kaminari. 

According to the information cards on each student featured in the episodes, Denki's favorite food is a hamburger. But everyone knows how to make those and that seemed a little boring... but I saw this pre-seasoned ground chicken at Publix that happened to be BOGO and I knew it would be perfect for a burger in honor of Denki. It's a Thai-style ground chicken, meaning it's got garlic, shallots, ginger, and soy sauce worked in... and get this: the brand name is Mighty Spark. It was destined for our Denki-inspired dish, given he's got an electricity Quirk! 

To lean in to these flavors, I'll be topping this burger with some Japanese mayonnaise and some okonomiyaki sauce (I'll show you how I make mine below, or you can buy your own on Amazon) instead of your standard ketchup or mustard.

We're rounding out the Three Musketeers of the My Hero Academia anime with Shoto Todoroki! His favorite dish (and a favorite among fans) is cold soba (aka buckwheat) noodles. Today, we'll be making some of our own with some edamame and tofu for added protein.

This is actually one of my favorite dishes, too - soba has this really nice, subtle flavor that's almost nutty. So with the sauce, you should dip it instead of coat it. That way, you can get just enough sauce to keep the noodles from drying out but so you can still enjoy the natural flavor of the noodles. 

Also, depending on the mentsuyu sauce you use, this dish can be made entirely vegan or vegetarian. You can get a variety that doesn't use bonito flakes, or you can just use soy sauce instead if you can't find any.
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Tomorrow's our last day of My Hero Academia week! ​Have a food from an anime that you want me to try to recreate? Let me know in the comments below! Plus, follow me on TikTok to see the behind the scenes of how this was made.

In the famous words of All Might, "I am here!" Well, these delicious steamed buns are, anyway! In the last season of My Hero Academia, All Might treats his students to some steamed pork buns that he picked up from a convenience store (my fellow Americans: they are way nicer than the convenience stores we have in the States, haha!). 

Since I don't eat pork (as aforementioned in the recipe for Deku's katsu cutlet), I'll be using seitan in these instead, which has a great flavor that makes for a good pork replacement in dishes like this. And to save some time, we'll be using Pillsbury dough sheets to make the buns instead of hand-making the dough. 

1. ​Dice your seitan and pan-fry it with ginger, soy sauce, and mirin until it starts to brown. 
2. Mix your seitan in a bowl with mushroom, cabbage, and green onion.
3. Cut your dough into balls and flatten so they form circles. 
4. Hold one circle in your hand. In the center of the circle, add a scoop of the filling, then use your free hand to pinch up the edges of the dough so it creates pleats that cover the filling. When the pleats are completed, give the top a pinch and gentle twist. 
5. Repeat with all of the dough. When complete, place them on parchment paper and let steam for 10-15 minutes (depends on the size of your buns).

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Welcome to day two of My Hero Academia Week! Yesterday we made Deku's favorite dish, but today we're going for the deuteragonist's taste buds - Katsuki Bakugo. Bakugo's Quirk (aka superpower) is explosion, so naturally he loves spicy food. So today, we're making a spicy sushi bowl (with customizable levels of heat). This recipe is super easy to whip up and only takes a few minutes, so let's dive right in!
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1. Put imitation crab in a bowl and mix with a fork so it forms chunks. 
2. In a small bowl, combine mayo and sriracha. You can add more sriracha to add more heat, but I recommend using a minimum of 2 tsp per 2 tbsp of mayo.
3. Add the mayo to the bowl with the crab and mix well. 
4. In a bowl, add 1 cup cooked white rice, 1/4 of the diced cucumber, 1/4 of the avocado, and 1/4 of your crab mixture (for your convenience, 1/4 of the crab mixture is about 0.5 cup worth). ​
5. Top with Japanese mixed chili pepper seasoning to taste and enjoy!

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Welcome to My Hero Academia Week! All week long, we'll be making and sharing recipes inspired by characters from one of my favorite anime, My Hero Academia (also known as Boku No Hero Academia in Japanese). 

We're starting the week off with the main character himself, Izuku Midoriya aka Deku. The show has these info cards that they share for the characters with some fun facts about them, and according to Izuku's, his favorite food is a pork cutlet bowl. 

I don't eat pork, so I'll be making mine with chicken - but feel free to do this with pork if you want to stay even more true to the show. We'll be serving it up with some Japanese curry and rice, which is always a plus ultra meal if you ask me. Pork cutlet bowls are typically served with fried egg, so if you wanted to stay closer to the original, you could whip that up alongside this, too. Just be sure to place it on top of the rice and under the meat.
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• 1 lb chicken breast 
• 0.5 cup flour 
• 1 cup Panko breadcrumbs
• 2 eggs 
• 1 package S&B Golden Curry Roux
• 2.25 cup water 
• 0.5 diced onion
• 2 small potatoes, cubed
• Optional: 1 tbsp mango chutney
• White rice (I use Nishiki brand)
• Optional: thin sliced green onion to garnish

1. Thinly slice chicken breast and coat in flour, eggs, and breadcrumbs in that order
2. Air fry for 20-25 minutes at 375 degrees (you can deep fry it too, if you prefer)
3. Cook curry with water per package instructions. Add potatoes, onion, and mango chutney to the mix.
4. Add desired amount of white rice to a bowl. Add curry and then your chicken katsu once it is completed.
5. Optional: garnish with green onion.

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This next recipe was a request on TikTok from jojo._.joestar - Gotcha Roast Pork (also known as Roast Pork, Just Kidding) from Food Wars! In the anime, when Soma has to make a roast pork dish but his meat was sabotaged, he gets creative and creates an artificial one with mashed potato wrapped in a bacon jacket and topped with a red wine reduction.

We used red wine vinegar that we had on hand instead of red wine and it reduced just the same, plus we made this vegan! The only thing that prevents the original from being vegan is the bacon, so we swapped it with this seitan bacon and it came out great.

This recipe comes from the manga/anime directly. I'll be posting it up with my minor modifications and some tips I learned along the way, but you can see the original here.

This was actually pretty hard to make. It took us about an hour and a half from start to finish, and like I mentioned in the tips section, the log was fairly hard to wrap with bacon. I couldn't even wrap mine with twine because whenever I tried to, it'd fall apart since I didn't have the twine set down before (which is why I advise you do that). Luckily we ended up not really needing the twine, since most of our bacon stayed put, but I still recommend using it to really reinforce the shape. 

Since it was harder to make and took a long time, I'm going to rate this a 6/10 for ease of replication.  I give the flavor a 9/10 rating, so overall this gets a 7/10 overall from me.

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We're going Italian today with dinner and dessert from one of my favorite anime, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. The show follows the Joestar family throughout the generations and today's meal comes from Part 4: Diamond Is Unbreakable. 

In Diamond Is Unbreakable, characters have superpowers called "Stands" that are unique to each individual. An Italian Stand user moves to Josuke's hometown of Morioh in Japan and uses his power to serve up food that can cure people of all their ailments. He serves up a few dishes to Josuke's friend, including "Harlot Spaghetti" aka Pasta Puttanesca and purin, a Japanese pudding with caramel. We'll be making both today and I'm super excited to try these!

The Pasta Puttanesca recipe I'm deriving from the anime, but for the purin, I'm using this recipe from CookFiction. If you're looking to reduce the amount of sugar in your purin for dietary needs, you can use Stevia and a sugar-free caramel instead like I did and it'll turn out just fine.
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• Apply cooking spray to four ramekins and set aside.
• Whisk together 3 eggs and 3 tbsp stevia. 
• Once mixed well, whisk in 1 cup 2% milk.
• Whisk in 2 tsp vanilla or 2 tsp Jordan's Skinny Syrups Vanilla. 
• ​Pour 1 tbsp sugar-free caramel and spread evenly at the bottom of ramekins.
• Add an even amount of mixture to each ramekin.
• In a skillet, let 1 inch of water boil (you don't want too much water in here so it doesn't boil over and into the ramekins).
• Once boiling, add your ramekins, put the lid on, and reduced heat to low. Steam for 10 minutes, and then reduce heat and steam for another 10 minutes. When your pudding is jiggly, it's ready!
• Remove from skillet and let sit at room temp until cooled. Once cooled, let sit in fridge for at least 2-3 hours.
• When ready to serve, use a knife to gently release the edges.
• Place a small plate on top of your ramekin and then, with both pressed between your palms/hands, carefully flip it over. This way, the purin will be plated as pictured above.
• Optional: top with extra caramel, whipped cream, or fresh fruit.

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The purin was amazing and surprisingly easy to make, so I'd give that a 10/10 for ease of replication. Since all you need is some sugar (or Stevia), caramel (I used Choc Zero sugar free), milk, vanilla, and eggs, it was really easy to get everything and recreate.

​I had ramekins already, so while my presentation was a bit shorter than the one in the anime, that was expected due to my ramekins' size/shape. The flavor was delicious: a nice creme caramel that reminded me in taste of a creme brulee, but in a Jell-O like pudding form, so that also gets a 10/10.

The Pasta Puttanesca - or Harlot Spaghetti as they call it in the show - was fairly simple to make, so the ease of replication does get a 10/10, but the overall score is an 8/10 since I'm rating it a 6/10 for taste. When fresh, it was a great pasta dish, but it didn't reheat super well the next day - the fishiness from the anchovies took over when reheating, despite being really mild when served fresh. I probably won't be making this again.

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My friend Liz recently requested an anime recipe from a show we both adore (that is highly underrated here in the United States): imoni! This cold-weather comfort stew was featured recently in an episode of Osomatsu-san where one of the characters, Dekapan, asks his neighbors to compete to make the best pot of imoni since he's feeling homesick (and hilarity ensues). So, I decided to try to make my own pot worthy of Dekapan!

If you're counting calories or on a program like Weight Watchers, this is a great dish to make on a cold day. It's warm, hearty, and loaded with vegetables so it's a really healthy option! It normally calls for roast beef, but since I don't eat beef, I swapped it with some tempeh bacon (you could also use seitan bacon) to mimic the flavor and it was delightful.

• 4 cups water
• 2 tbsp miso paste
• 1 packet dashi granules (if you are vegatarian, skip this)
• 0.5 cup chopped cabbage
• 1 large daikon radish, diced into bite-size chunks 
• 1-2 small turnips, diced into bite-size chunks
• 0.5 cup sliced carrots 
• 0.5 cup mushrooms, thinly sliced or diced
• 0.5 cup green onion, thinly sliced
• 2 Taro roots or Russet potatoes, diced into bite-size chunks
• 8 oz seitan or tempeh bacon (or, if you eat beef, you can use roast beef, which is traditionally used here)

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• Add all ingredients except for the seitan/tempeh bacon to a pot or slow cooker and let simmer.
• Once the root vegetables have softened, add cooked seitan/tempeh bacon strips (or roast beef) and serve.

Since you can just throw everything in one pot (whether it be your slow cooker, InstantPot, or just a normal pot on the stovetop), it's super easy to make and the ingredients are pretty easy to either grab or substitute, earning this a 10/10 for ease of replication.

I'm also going to give this a 10/10 in the taste category. The flavor of everything in the stew is fairly mild, so it allows for each individual ingredient to shine without any one thing being overpowering. Anthony and I both loved it and would definitely make this again. 

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This dish is not only simple, but its also really healthy, too. Ground chicken is usually lower in calories and fat than beef, so this is great for anybody with dietary concerns in mind. The mildness of the chicken allows for the flavor of the ginger and green onions to shine, so I don't recommend using beef here.

If you're counting calories, four servings when using a lean ground chicken came out to only 189 calories each! If you're following myWW, your SmartPoints may vary depending on exactly what fat percentage your chicken has, but should be low in SmartPoints regardless. 
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This recipe is super simple and super delicious, earning a 10/10 for both taste and ease of replication. I highly recommend this, especially if you're looking to mix up how you typically eat meatballs!

The ginger gave the meatballs a nice, refreshing flavor. I recommend pairing this with carrots, bean sprouts, cabbage, and mushroom but most veggies should pair well with this. The rice I used is Nishiki brand; they make white sushi rice so it has a really nice texture and goes great with Japanese dishes like this one.

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​Ichiraku Ramen is the ramen joint that Naruto frequents in Naruto and Naruto: Shippuden, and it's just as classic as the anime it hails from. When TikTok user emeri834_cute7 requested I make Ichiraku Ramen, I knew I wanted to put a twist on it, though. There are countless replicas out there on the internet, so I wanted to make this a little bit differently. 

Ichiraku Ramen traditionally is a pork ramen. But, I don't eat pork! I don't like it and haven't eaten pork in at least five years, and if I were to eat it again I'd likely get sick. Plus, I know a lot of people don't eat pork for religious reasons. So, I thought, why not try to make the famous  Ichiraku Ramen pescatarian?

​The only thing in this dish that is not vegetarian is the fish cake, which you can leave out to make your dish vegetarian-friendly. Since there aren't any Asian markets super close by, I'll be making my own fish cake. For the instructions on that, you can consult a YouTube video I'll be embedding below. Otherwise, though, this recipe is 100% my own - not derived from a manga, but inspired by the classic ramen from the show and presented to look just like it.
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• 1 container Ocean's Halo No Chicken Broth
• 1 tbsp miso paste 
• 0.5 cup reduced sodium soy sauce
• 1 cup scallions, diced 
• 1 cup bean sprouts 
• 2 eggs 
• 1 daikon radish 
• 4 cups cooked ramen noodles (4 packets of Maruchan; you won't be using the seasoning packet, so the flavor does not matter)
• Narutomaki
• Quorn meatless roast 
• Nori (seaweed) snack-size sheets

1. In a pot or slow cooker, combine broth, soy sauce, miso paste, bean sprouts, and 0.5 cup of scallions. Let simmer for 40 minutes or slow cook for at least 4 hours.
2. Let Quorn roast in oven at 425F for an hour. Cut into eight slices when done.
3. Peel daikon radish into strips with a potato peeler and air fry at 375 for 20 minutes or until it begins to brown/crisp. You can also do this in a pan with just some olive oil spray.
4. Cook ramen noodles and set in the bowl. Then add broth. Top with two slices of the Quorn, two nori rectangles, one narutomaki slice, 1/4 of the green onions, and 1/4 daikon per bowl.
5. Hard boil two eggs and split each in half. Put half an egg in each bowl before serving.

Shoutout to Giselle Santin on YouTube for this easy-to-follow tutorial!

The hardest part was making the Narutomaki. But if I had that bought pre-made, then this would make it a 9/10 for ease of replication!

As far as taste goes: this was delicious and tasted a lot like a pork ramen even with no pork. However, I prefer the Food Wars ramen we made so this gets a 9/10 as far as taste goes for me.

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