Authentic Japanese Home Cooking
Today’s dish, Konbu Cha Pickled Vegetables is super easy and quick to make. You only need to pickle the vegetables for 30 minutes and the preparation takes just 5 minutes. It is lightly salted and full of umami.
I have already posted a recipe, Simple Pickled Celery, which is also a very easy recipe using just salt to pickle. Today’s recipe uses Konbu Cha as a pickling agent….
Chicken Wing Gyōza is basically a stuffed chicken wing that is deep-fried until the skin becomes crispy and golden brown. It’s not a gyōza with chicken wing meat inside. It is crunchy on the outside and juicy on the inside. Chicken Wing Gyōza is very tasty without anything on it, but I find that eating…
Wafū Mushroom Pasta is not made with a cream or a tomato sauce. Its flavour comes from plenty of Asian mushrooms with a bit of bacon, soy sauce and mirin. Chopped green onions and thin strips of nori (roasted seaweed) scattered on the pasta make this pasta even more authentic. This is a mouth-watering Japanese-style…
Pan-Fried Lamb Chops with Miso Marinade is a Western-style dish with a touch of Japanese flavour. You could call this dish, ‘Wafū Pan-Fried Lamb Chops’ or ‘Japanese-style Pan-Fried Lamb Chops’. The slightly sweetened miso marinade is tasty and goes so well with lamb. Japanese people don’t eat lamb very often. There are no traditional Japanese…
Hōtō Noodle Soup (Hōtō Nabe) is a noodle soup dish with flat noodles, pumpkin, and other vegetables. They are cooked in a miso-flavoured broth. It is a perfect dish on a cold day (it’s winter here in Australia), but I don’t mind eating it in summer too. It’s almost a big bowl of miso soup…
Today’s recipe, Anchovy and Tofu Dip was developed from my recipe Perilla and Tofu Dip. Instead of perilla, I added anchovies to the tofu and whizzed it. Unlike the other tofu dips Anchovy and Tofu Dip is not vegetarian but it is equally tasty. Last week’s post Deep-fried Horse Mackerel (Aji Fry) is a very…
Deep-fried Horse Mackerel (Aji Fry) is a traditional Japanese home-cooking dish, and one of my favourite dishes. Butterflied horse mackerel (also called yellowtail or jack mackerel in Australia) is coated in breadcrumbs and deep-fried to a perfect golden colour. Nothing is better than biting into the hot deep-fried crumbed fish! Horse mackerel is reasonably cheap…
