I’ve found another TopMom during my food blog travels! Our August Mom of the Month’s name is Nami and when I first encountered her site, I fell in love with her personable style and how she made traditional 
Japanese dishes quick and easy for home cooks with simple instructions and beautiful prep-to-finish photos. Nami moved to the U.S. from Yokahama, Japan as a student 15 years ago and lives in the San Francisco Bay area with her husband and their two young children. When she was young, Nami’s mom made sure that she learned the proper way to prepare the Japanese dishes she made for dinner each evening and Nami helped by washing and chopping ingredients. Thank you to Nami’s okaasan!
As a college student, Nami wasn’t very interested in cooking, but once she had kids she started preparing meals at home because she really wanted her children to eat healthy and nutritious food. It’s very important to her that her family eats healthy because, as the saying goes, “you are what you eat”. Both of her kids love all types of food but especially Japanese food like sashimi, tonkatsu, gyoza, gyudon, and udon noodle soup. She loves seeing the joy on their faces as they enjoy the food she cooks and hopes that her recipes also bring a smile and happiness to the readers of her website Just One Cookbook who desire to learn to cook Japanese food at home.
Garlic Miso Chicken Wings
Difficulty: Easy | Cooking Time: <40 minutes (excluding marinade time)
Yield: 2-4 servings
Ingredients:
4 cloves garlic, minced
3 Tbsp. Miso
10 chicken wings (or any parts of chicken)
2 Tbsp. soy sauce
2 Tbsp. mirin
Directions:
1. Rinse the chicken and pat it dry with paper towel. Prick the chicken with a fork and put them in a Ziploc bag.
2. Mince the garlic (I used garlic press) and combine it with miso in a small bowl.
3. Add the mixture into the Ziploc bag and rub it on chicken from outside the bag. Keep in the fridge for at least 4-6 hours (preferably overnight).
4. About 3 hours before cooking, add soy sauce and mirin in the bag and rub well. Keep in the fridge until you are ready to cook.
5. Line a baking pan with aluminum foil (so that you don’t have to clean later) and oil the broiler rack. Place the chicken wing, skin side down, on the rack. Set the broiler to High and broil for 10 minutes, or until nicely browned. Then flip the chicken (now skin side is up) and broil for another 10 minutes.
If you use other parts of chicken like chicken thigh or breast, preheat oven to 425F. Line a baking pan with parchment paper and place the meat on top. Bake for 30 minutes or more depending on the part you used. Turn the chicken over half way during cooking process.
Enjoy immediately 🙂
Nami | Just One Cookbook
August 5 at 8:17 amThank you Priscilla for choosing me for this month’s Top Mom and featuring my recipe! I hope you have a wonderful weekend. 🙂
Priscilla
August 5 at 10:05 amYou’re welcome, Nami! Thank you for being a Top Mom and sharing your delicious Japanese recipes with all of us 🙂
Sandra's Easy Cooking
August 5 at 9:04 amI am so happy to see Nami as a Top Mom. Nami, this recipe looks amazing, very delicious, and I must say tempting! Priscilla you did great job as always!
Priscilla
August 5 at 10:06 amThanks, Sandra! Now I’m headed over to your blog to see what you’ve been cooking up 🙂
The Harried Cook
August 5 at 6:29 pmNami is a great blogger, and a friend too, and I am glad to see this post! Love this recipe… and I love the introduction you wrote about Nami, Priscilla! 🙂 Your site is beautiful! Thanks for sharing, Nami & Priscilla!
Priscilla
August 5 at 7:15 pmThank you! Yes, Nami is wonderful – I love her recipes. Hope you have a great weekend 🙂
Angie's Recipes
August 5 at 9:13 pmThose miso wings are fingerlicking good! I have some chicken drumsticks in the freezer need to be used and this seems the perfect one to use them up! Thanks, Nami, and Priscilla.
Have a great weekend!
Angie
Firefly
August 6 at 12:21 amYum Yum!!! I love Nami’s site and her recipes, always so yummy and delicious 🙂 Great to see her features as a TopMom 🙂
Ellena
August 6 at 3:49 amThese wings sure look great!!! I love Nami’s recipes tooo!!!! Great that you have featured her 🙂
[email protected] in disguise
August 6 at 6:53 amI love Nami’s blog but what I LOVE even more is how nice and thoughtful she is
Congrats on being top mum Nami 🙂
WOnderful recipe as always
Pachecopatty
August 6 at 7:56 pmBeautiful chicken wings, they really look very good! I like your Top Mom choice Priscilla and recipe Nami! Hope you’re both enjoying the weekend;-)
wok with ray
August 6 at 11:13 pmThank you for sharing and featuring Nami’s beautiful chicken wings. It’s very nice of you. Have a wonderful weekend!
~ ray ~
Hester Casey @ Alchemy in the Kitchen
August 7 at 8:53 amLovely guest post Priscilla. These look gorgeous, Nami. Such deliciousness with so few ingredients. Definitely giving these a try.
Priscilla
August 7 at 4:59 pmThank you, Hester! I love the simplicity of Nami’s recipe, too 🙂
Victoria
August 7 at 12:06 pmFirst of all, I love your new blog layout! Way more high tech than mine, haha! Great guest post from Nami! I’m always interested in new (and easy!) chicken wing recipe. Good go-to recipe.
Priscilla
August 7 at 4:58 pmThanks, Victoria 🙂 I had a tech guy over to help me backup and fix a few things with my comments, etc. and decided to change the whole darn thing since I had him there!
Magic of Spice
August 8 at 7:40 pmHi Nami, so great to see you as this months Top Mom 🙂 These wings look wonderful and just loaded with flavor 🙂
And love the new look Priscilla, very sharp 🙂
Hugs to you both…