Authentic Japanese Home Cooking
Beef and burdock are a perfect combination. Cooked in sweet soy sauce with a lot of ginger, Braised Beef & Burdock with Ginger is a great side dish that goes so well with rice.
The dishes that are cooked in a strong sweet soy sauce flavour with a lot of ginger are called ‘shigureni’ (時雨煮). It is a generic name and dishes do not have to be made of beef and burdock, although beef shigureni appears to be by far the most popular shigureni dish….
Japanese Vegetable Soup (Kenchinjiru) was originally a Buddhist dish that is vegetarian. Root vegetables and tofu are sautéed and cooked in flavoured dashi broth. It is quite filling but you don’t need to worry about the calories. If you are on a diet, this is one of the best homemade vegetable soup recipes I would recommend to you….
This is a very elegant and light salad that takes no more than 10 minutes to make. Snow pea leaves and aburaage (fried thin tofu) are simmered in a lightly flavoured dashi broth. Use konbu dashi to make a vegetarian version of Snow Pea Leaves Warm Salad. When I posted Spinach Ohitashi Salad I talked about where…
Deep fried crumbed sardine is pretty tasty, but when you stuff a sardine fillet with perilla leaves and pickled plum, it almost eliminates the fishiness of the sardine. Stuffed Sardines with Perilla and Pickled Plum is perfect as an appetiser or a main dish. Sardines used to be extremely cheap in Australia. I like the fish with…
My version of Ramen Broth is made from a combination of pork bones, chicken carcasses and bonito flakes. It takes few hours to make but it is not very difficult. It can also be made in the slow cooker or pressure cooker! Today’s Ramen Broth recipe was developed in reply to one of the recipe requests from…
Japanese Style Cabbage Rolls is one of the popular dishes originating from Western cuisine. Pork and beef mince (ground meat) is stuffed in cabbage leaves and cooked in chicken stock with a few bacon pieces. Cabbage roll recipes are everywhere on the internet but many of them are cooked in tomato-based soup. My cabbage rolls are cooked…
The Japanese Bento Box is the ultimate meal prep, consumed by millions of Japanese people every day. Today’s bento recipe is Chicken Karaage Bento. I re-posted the Karaage recipe with a video and updated blog contents last week, and you might be thinking of making karaage this week. Then you would want to take some…
