Authentic Japanese Home Cooking
Here is a recipe requested by a reader in Nagi’s post ‘Request a Recipe!’ – Japanese Vegetarian Curry. The consistency is just like the store-bought Japanese curry roux. It’s nothing like Indian curry or any other curries in the world!
It took me a while to complete it but I now have a home-made Japanese vegetarian curry. I am still working on other Japanese recipes requested by Nagi’s blog readers through her post ‘Request a Recipe!’….
Asparagus Rolls with Pork is a very quick and simple dish, perfect as a starter as well as a side. They are flavoured in not-so-sweet teriyaki sauce to give a Japanese touch to the dish. You often encounter asparagus wrapped in prosciutto or bacon in Western dishes. But the Japanese version of wrapped asparagus uses…
Adding wasabi mayonnaise gives a Japanese touch to salad. Root Vegetable Salad is very simple, consisting of only carrot, burdock and cucumber, but it is quite satisfying with a creamy Wasabi Dressing. Most people might know wasabi as a green paste that comes with sushi. But you can use wasabi just like you use mustard…
One of the three basic ramen flavourings, Miso Ramen is quite simple to make. All you need is to learn how to make the miso flavouring base and just add the Home-made Ramen Broth that I posted in October. When you think of ramen, perhaps shōyu ramen (soy sauce flavoured ramen) comes to your mind…
Chilled Tofu is a great appetiser with beer or any other drinks, particularly in summer time. It is one of the simplest dishes you’ll ever encounter, but with various toppings Chilled Tofu gives you depth of flavour. This is a great vegetarian dish. Chilled Tofu with toppings is called ‘hiyayakko’ (冷奴) in Japanese. The word ‘hiya’ (冷)…
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…
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….
