Learn to cook Japanese cuisine
Japanese Harusame Noodle Soup Recipe is a light, low calorie, delicious soup recipe made with semi-transparent noodles (harusame noodles). It is made with mushrooms, spinach, and green onions. The soup is flavored with a chicken bouillon base, that is enhanced with soy sauce, salt, and …
This Japanese Style Braised Eggplant Recipe is simple to prepare and a healthy dish. Braised eggplant or 茄子の煮びたし (nasu no nibitashi) is cooked with soy sauce and ginger. It isn’t often served at restaurants, except as appetizer in izakayas (Japanese bars). However, it is often …
Harusame Salad with Beef Strips Recipe is healthy, easy to make, and tastes delicious. Harusame noodles are loaded with strips of beef, slices of red onions, and topped with cucumbers, yellow and red peppers. It’s a balanced meal containing carbohydrates, protein, and loads of vegetables. …
This Healthy Japanese Shiraae Recipe is a classic Japanese dish made from creamy tofu, soy sauce, miso, and a mixture of vegetables. This vegetarian-friendly dish is healthy and super easy to make. So let’s get started! Shiraae comes from two different words. Shira means “white” …
This Eggplant and Chicken Nanbanzuke recipe is often made in the summer because it is served chilled and easy to make. Chicken thighs often have a lot of fat, but the vinegar from the sauce creates a refreshing aftertaste. Eggplant is also often harvested in …
Takenoko Gohan Bamboo Rice Recipe is a simple, rice dish flavored with Japanese seasonings and mixed with bamboo shoots. I also added aburaage (deep fried tofu) and konnyaku in this recipe. It is flavored with traditional Japanese seasonings. Bamboo rice is a seasonal dish that …
Tsukune is a Japanese chicken meatball. Restaurants often skewer them, cook them on a grill and flavor them with a kind of teriyaki sauce. In this recipe, I show how to cook tsukune at home on a stove top with homemade tsukune sauce. I shaped …
Kinpira is a style of cooking. In this Japanese kinpira recipe I used konnyaku and carrots. It can be made with peppers, baby bamboo sprouts, chikuwa and others. It is often made with gobo and called kinpira gobo. Gobo is difficult to find in the …
Asazuke is similar to tsukemono, but the method of cooking is quite different. Tsukemono can take days to cook while asazuke can be prepared and finished in less than 60 minutes! It is perfect for sides to accompany your main dish. Pickled vegetable asazuke contains …
I lived in Japan for 4 years, and hadn’t heard of nikumaki onigiri until my wife recently introduced them to me. Evidently, there are special restaurants that specialize in nikumaki onigiri and they have recently become famous. At home, parent sometimes make nikumaki onigiri to …