After My Hero Academia Week, I received a request from TikTok user cookie_.demon._ to make Tsuyu Asui's favorite food! Tsuyu Asui - aka Froppy - is my favorite student in My Hero Academia so I was really excited to get this request.

Tsuyu's favorite food is jelly, which is really fitting since her Quirk (aka superpower for those of you unfamiliar with the show) is that she's part-frog!

Since Tsuyu is Japanese, we'll be making a Japanese fruit jelly, which is a bit different than your standard Jell-O. But since her costume and character design is heavily centered around the color green, we'll be giving this a little bit of a twist that breaks away from the traditional way of making the dessert. Don't worry, it's super easy and won't impact the taste.
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​If you're trying to eat in a calorie deficit like me or if you're concerned about your sugar intake for dietary reasons, I'll include some easy swaps you can make to keep the sugar content low.

Also, this dish is accidentally vegetarian! If you get a plant-based food coloring (you can get this at Whole Foods) then this will even be vegan-friendly. 
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• Optional (for the Froppy twist!): Green food coloring
• Fruit of choice (I recommend strawberry slices, kiwi slices, or berries!)
• Agar agar aka kanten powder (this is different from Jell-O because its clear, flavorless, and it doesn't melt at room temp like Jell-O can!)
• To taste: sugar or Stevia 
• Water
• Optional: flavored syrup or fruit juice for flavor

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See instructions for ratio of water and agar agar.
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• Dissolve agar agar into water. If using 1 cup of water, start with 1 tsp agar agar.
• Bring water to boil after dissolving agar agar to prevent clumping. Once your water is at a rolling boil, reduce heat to low and simmer for 3 minutes.
•  Add sweetener and one or two drops of food coloring. Stir until well-blended.
• Take off heat and pour half of the agar agar mixture into a mold
  • If you don't have a square mold for Jell-O, you can use a brownie pan
  • If you have ice cube trays or specific Jell-O molds, that works too!
• Let cool in the fridge or at room temp for a few minutes while you cut your fruit into slices. Mine only took about 3 minutes in the fridge to reach the next stage.
• Once your jelly has just begun to set (it shouldn't be completely set yet), add fruit slices, then top with the remaining half.
  • If it's completely set, then the top layer won't be able to bind with the bottom. Make sure your jelly is still really soft, but has started to form.
• Let set in the fridge until the jelly has completely set. Use a knife to cut around the fruit and then serve. 

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My Hero Academia week may be over, but there are still plenty of recipes from the show to be made! TikTok user @tiredbones21 requested that we make takoyaki, which is featured in this show. I love takoyaki but have never made it myself, so I'll be sharing this beginner-friendly way to make takoyaki at home. Takoyaki is, simply put, a fried dough ball stuffed with grilled octopus. 
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​This is featured in My Hero Academia with Fat Gum’s introduction, since takoyaki is a classic Osaka street food and that’s where he lives. It’s also where Amajiki got his tentacles from when he converted his food for his Quirk, Manifest.

Takoyaki is actually featured in a bunch of different anime. My first exposure to it was Cardcaptor Sakura as a kid!

​Everything you need, you can get on Amazon. You can order a takoyaki maker if you want to make more at a time, but I wanted to give this a try before I committed to a larger kitchen appliance (especially since we don't have much room in our small galley kitchen). So, I ordered this small cake pop maker that the reviews said work great for takoyaki as well. Plus, with the cake pop maker, I don't have to turn the takoyaki over since it functions similarly to a waffle iron.

Measurements are for about 3 servings, or 25 pieces of takoyaki

• 4 oz. Otafuku takoyaki kit (this comes with the takoyaki sauce and takoyaki flour)
• 1 Green onion 
• 4 oz. octopus, grilled and chopped
• 12 oz. Water
• 2 Eggs
• 2 tbsp Pickled ginger 
• Bonito flakes to taste
• 2 tbsp mayonnaise (preferably Japanese kewpie mayo, but you can use regular mayo) 
  • ​If you're following Weight Watchers or are on a calorie deficit, you can use a light mayo instead

Instructions taken from the Otafuku takoyaki kit bag. The maker I used is nonstick, so I just used a bit of cooking spray, but you may need to use oil if your maker is not non-stick. 

1. Grill and chop octopus tentacles and set aside.
2. In a bowl, mix the takoyaki flour, water, and two eggs.
3. Fill your takoyaki maker with batter about halfway. Evenly distribute fillings (except bonito flakes) in each hole, then fill to the brim with more batter.
4. If you are using a traditional takoyaki maker (not the cake pop maker I bought), once the takoyaki is cooked halfway, flip them halfway with a toothpick.
5. Once your takoyaki is golden brown, top with the takoyaki sauce, mayo, and bonito flakes and enjoy!

These aren’t the easiest to make without a proper takoyaki maker, but the cake pop maker did the trick. I’d rate this a 8/10 for ease of replication but only because it took a while with the cake pop maker. Some of them also deflated fairly quickly. If we had a larger takoyaki maker, it’d have been a breeze.

The taste, though? Excellent! The fillings I selected were based off of what I’ve had at two separate Japanese restaurants here in Orlando, and these tasted really similar to the ones we had there. 10/10 on taste!
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If making 25 takoyaki pieces, each ball contains approximately...

• 40 calories
• 1 g fat
• 15.7 mg cholesterol
• 140 mg sodium
• 5 g carbs
• 0.1 g fiber
• 5 g sugar
• 2 g protein

​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.
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• Gotcha Roast Pork from Food Wars with vegan alternatives

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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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