Learn to cook Japanese cuisine
With a crispy skin, a sweet coating and a tender inside, these candied sweet potatoes are a perfect snack on a cool fall or wintery day. These go well with a cup of coffee or tea. This candied sweet potato recipe is easy to make …
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 …
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 …
Torihamu (鶏ハム) or Chicken “ham” entered mainstream Japanese culture and was popularized around 2001 or 2002. Torihamu is seasoned with salt and uses a cooking method to cook chicken into the shape of ham. I was first skeptical trying torihamu and didn’t think that chicken …
This Japanese bean sprout salad recipe is for busy nights when you don’t have much time to prepare a meal. It takes less than 10 minutes to prepare and is simple to make. You can use it as a side dish, or eat it as …
This salad is simple to make, but packs a powerful flavor due to the wasabi and creamy avocados. You can eat is plain, but I recommend mixing it with green leaves or lettuce for making a salad. It can also be mixed with cucumbers to …