Authentic Japanese Home Cooking
Japanese-style Sweet Corn Soup is made with sweet corn, and is my third Surinagashi recipe. Unlike Western-style corn soup, Corn Surinagashi does not use milk or cream. The flavour comes from the corn itself and konbu dashi, making it a low-calorie vegetarian soup.
Like Pumpkin Surinagashi, it is a quick and easy soup. Using sweet corn (as opposed to normal corn) makes such a difference to the sweetness of the soup. But even if you don’t use sweet corn, it is still naturally sweet and tasty….
Chicken and Cabbage Simmered in Milk is a comforting dish made with juicy, tender chicken breast, Chinese cabbage, and bacon cooked in milk. It looks almost like a stew, but I wouldn’t call it a stew because the ingredients are not slow cooked for a long time, and the broth is not thick either. It’s…
After using a small amount of snow pea shoots in salads or as garnishes, I make Stir-fried Snow Pea Sprouts to use up the rest. I find this is the best way to consume a large amount of snow pea sprouts because they come in a pack with quite a lot of shoots. My Stir-fried…
Temari Sushi are small balls of sushi rice topped with colourful ingredients. They are the perfect finger food for special occasions and certainly have a wow factor. In Japan, they are often served during the Hinamatsuri (Doll’s Day/Girl’s Day) festival on the 3rd of March. Since each piece of sushi needs to be shaped individually,…
If you want to consume a large amount of cabbage with minimal effort, Tuna Cabbage Salad is the way to go. I made this after making Simmered Layered Cabbage and Mince because there was so much cabbage left. I included julienned carrots to add a bright colour to the salad, but it tastes equally good…
Yūan-style Grilled Fish is an elegantly grilled dish. It is made by grilling fish fillets after marinating them in sake, mirin, and soy sauce with slices of citrus – most commonly yuzu. The characteristic of Yūan-style Grilled Fish is its refreshing flavour with a scent of citrus. It is a tsukeyaki dish, which I introduced…
Simmered Layered Cabbage and Mince is a similar recipe to my Cabbage Rolls, except you don’t roll the mince in cabbage. Instead, you alternate layering the cabbage leaves and ground meat to form a dome shape. It is easier to make than cabbage rolls because you don’t need to wrap each portion in a cabbage…
