Authentic Japanese Home Cooking
Simmered Kiriboshi Daikon (Dried Shredded Daikon) is a dish of rehydrated dried daikon strips cooked with carrots and aburaage (thin fried tofu), in a lightly flavoured broth. It is a make-ahead dish and one of the very popular side dishes in Japan.
Simmered Kiriboshi Daikon is often served when you want one more dish to complete a meal set in Japan, but it can also be served as a warm salad. It is a perfect dish for a bento box too….
A Japanese-invented pasta, Mentaiko Pasta is a spaghetti coated with brined spicy cod roe with Japanese seasonings and butter. It is a very quick and simple pasta, and so tasty. Mentaiko Pasta is a must-try yōshoku (Japanese-style Western food)! In September, Nagi published her Tokyo Guide in RecipeTin Eats. One of the recommended yōshoku (Japanese-style Western…
In today’s bento, the rice is covered with Braised Beef and Burdock with Ginger (Shigureni) which makes the rice so tasty. Shigureni Bento is accompanied by simmered pumpkin, pickled daikon, blanched asparagus and tomato wedges. It is a balanced colourful bento box. Because Shigureni comes with a tiny amount of braising sauce, it is best placed on…
Tempura Udon is a popular Japanese noodle soup with thick wheat noodles. It is topped with crunchy prawn tempura, fish cake and chopped shallots/scallions. Dashi-based broth has saltiness and a hint of sweetness that goes so well with tempura. I can’t believe I haven’t posted Tempura Udon before now! I was focussing on ramen so…
Japanese Chicken Cream Stew has a touch of Japanese flavour, which makes it different from the recipe White Stew (Cream Stew) that I posted 2 years ago. Today’s Cream Stew tastes like the stew made from the store-bought House Cream Stew roux. White Stew (Cream Stew) was based on the recipe in my very old…
Home-made Inari Sushi is not difficult to make at all. All you need to do is cook seasoned aburaage pouches and sushi rice, then wrap the rice in the aburaage pouches. It only takes 10 minutes to cook seasoned aburaage pouches. I’ll also show you how to make a triangle Inarizushi in today’s recipe. In…
Inari Sushi is sushi rice in a pouch made of seasoned aburaage (deep fried thin tofu). It is sweet but it complements the sourness of sushi rice. It is quite simple to make Inari Sushi, particularly when you use store-bought seasoned aburaage. Among the various sushi recipes, Inari Sushi is one of the easiest. Unlike…
