Learn to cook Japanese cuisine
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 …
Cabbage roll or (ロールキャベツ) is a popular dish made by wrapping ground meat and diced onions in cabbage and simmering in a seasoned soup. It is a popular western-style Japanese food (yoshoku), just like hamburger steak, omurice, spaghetti napolitan, potato salad, and tonkatsu. Japanese cabbage …
Somen is a seasonal Japanese dish served in the summer time. I lived in Japan for four years, and was surprised that the summers were so hot! Sometimes, I stopped by a restaurant and cooled down with cold somen noodles. I often wondered, why aren’t …
Japanese-style teriyaki chicken thighs are juicy and tender. They are easy to make and are an authentic Japanese dish. Japanese often make this dish at home. It is my favorite way to eat chicken legs and tastes amazing. It also does not require bottled teriyaki …
Gyudon literally means “beef bowl” in Japanese. It is served in many Japanese fast food restaurants. Sweet and savory, it is easy to make and topped on a mound of plain steamed rice. Today, I’m going to share with you the Japanese beef rice bowl …
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 …
When living in Japan, I realized that Japanese sweets and drinks are not nearly as sweet as their Western counterparts. My Japanese wife makes this lemonade and it is definitely made for Japanese tastes. I believe this is the best homemade lemonade recipe, however, it …
My mom often made this Japanese gyoza recipe for us when we were kids. It’s an authentic recipe that we often made at home. The recipe is quite easy, but I’ve noticed that the wrapping method is difficult for new people. I’ve taught it to …