Authentic Japanese Home Cooking
Celery sticks are pickled in soy and fish sauce based vinegar. Fish sauce gives umami to the pickled celery and almost eliminates its strong flavour. Pickled Celery in Fish Sauce is not a traditional Japanese pickled dish, but I like it and I hope you will like it, too.
This is a very new recipe I made only about 3 years ago. When I was searching the net for a recipe that could use a large amount of celery, I found this interesting recipe on a Japanese recipe site….
The Japanese version of Salisbury Steak, Stewed Hamburg Steak is made with a mixture of pork mince (ground pork) and beef mince (ground beef), cooked in a sauce flavoured with tomato ketchup and Worcestershire sauce. Hamburg steaks are very popular among Japanese people, particularly children. This is one of the many Western style dishes that made…
Persimmon Daikon Salad is quite popular in Japan as an autumn salad. The colours of orange and white are pretty and appetising, particularly with a small amount of green leaves added to it. The dressing is a simple mixture of oil, lemon juice and vinegar. Autumn arrived in Sydney a bit later than usual but…
Mackerel fillets cooked in miso flavoured sauce – this is the best way of cooking mackerel. Simmered Mackerel in Miso is full of flavour and goes so well with rice. Simmered Mackerel in Miso is called ‘saba no misoni’ (鯖の味噌煮). ‘Saba’ (鯖) means mackerel, ‘misoni’ (味噌煮) means simmered in miso, and ‘no’ (の) is equivalent…
With a bright orange colour, Mixed Vegetable Salad Dressing is full of grated vegetables–it is 50% vegetables! It’s almost like a liquid salad! It looks great on green salad. I did not plan to make today’s recipe, but I had so many vegetables that I had to come up with dishes that can use up…
Marinated Quail Eggs are often served at izakaya (Japanese-style tavern) as a small appetiser as soon as you are seated. Marinated in sweet soy-flavoured sauce, they are surprisingly tasty and also surprisingly easy to make. When my friend and I travelled to Japan a couple of years ago, we stayed in Asakusa, near Sensōji temple…
Steamed Rolled Chicken is made in a very simple way, but the soy-flavoured sesame sauce makes this dish so yummy. Chicken fillets are rolled with shallots (scallions) inside, then steamed. When I got married, I had a limited cooking repertoire. So, I subscribed to a couple of monthly cooking magazines and I enjoyed reading articles…
