Authentic Japanese Home Cooking
Soybean Salad with Carrot and Cucumber is a very easy bean salad. It contains only three vegetables to balance the colour of the salad. The dressing is an authentic miso mayonnaise. It is full of umami.
Many of the bean salads you find on the internet consist of a few kinds of beans such as kidney beans, chickpeas, and cannellini beans. But my bean salad uses just soybeans. Mixing soybeans with cucumber and carrot gives the salad some bright colours….
Nobu’s Miso Marinated Black Cod Recipe is very similar to the Saikyo Yaki Miso Marinade and Saikyo Yaki Fish recipes that I posted some time ago. Nobu’s marinade is a Westernised version with a stronger flavour – particularly the sweetness. I posted this recipe a few months ago. But, I needed to re-publish this post…
While I was working on the recent posts Mikkusu Sando and Katsu Sando, I decided to make Ichigo Sando (Strawberry and Cream Sandwich) at the same time because it is also a cafe-style sandwich. My Ichigo Sando is a sandwich with fresh strawberry and cream cheese inside. This is a simple sandwich, and the strawberry…
Katsu Sando (Pork Cutlet Sandwich) is another Japanese sandwich that is very popular together with Cafe-style Japanese Sandwiches that I recently introduced you. As the name implies, the filling is a thick Tonkatsu (Pork Cutlet) smeared with a fruity Japanese sauce. The combination of crispy cutlet and soft white sandwich bread gives you a great contrast…
Today’s recipe, Kansai-style Ozōni (Miso Soup with Rice Cake), should have been posted a bit earlier because Ozōni is usually eaten on the first 3 days of the new year as part of the New Year’s feast. But there is no reason why you can’t make it all year round. Today’s Ozōni is a Kansai…
Japanese people eat Tazukuri (Candied Baby Sardines) as part of Osechi Ryōri – the traditional New Year’s feast. It is made by coating dried baby sardines with a soy-flavoured glaze. It is very sweet and sticky, as most candied foods are. When you bite into a tiny fish, you get an amazing crunchiness. It is…
Japanese-style Turnip Soup is a thick soup, like pottage with a dashi-based flavour. It is very light with a touch of sweetness, and you can enjoy the natural flavour of turnip. By using a vegetarian dashi stock such as konbu dashi, you can make it a vegetarian soup, without scallops. In my post Japanese-style Pumpkin…
