Authentic Japanese Home Cooking
This is an appetiser perfect to nibble with drinks. Smoked Salmon with Grated Daikon Dressing (Mizore-ae) is simply made by tossing smoked salmon strips in flavoured grated daikon dressing. It is surprising to learn that smoked salmon and daikon are a good match. Great to serve chilled.
My son and I stayed at Shiga Kogen ski resort in Nagano prefecture from New Year’s Eve for 6 nights. Shiga Kogen ski resort consists of 18 different ski areas and is the largest ski resort in Japan. …
Teriyaki Salmon Bento is my third bento post. As always, try to pick small side dishes with different colours to make the bento look pretty and appetising. In the majority of Japanese households, bento boxes are usually filled with a main dish from the previous night and a couple of dishes that can be made several…
Tender and flavoursome Miso Marinated Pork takes no time to make. Allow anywhere between 3-48 hours to marinate, then simply BBQ or grill the meat. The miso flavour is intense and a perfect meal with rice. Today’s dish is made in a similar way to the Pork Marinated in Sake Lees (Pork Kasuzuke) that I posted about…
This is a very simple salad and takes no time to prepare. Watercress Salad with cucumber is a Western style salad but the Wasabi Dressing is full of Japanese flavour, with soy sauce and a good amount of wasabi. Watercress is a bit bitter, hot and peppery. I was quite surprised to find out that…
This is one of the easiest chicken recipes. Salty Shallot Sauce with sesame oil flavour goes so well with Sautéed Chicken pieces. Sautéed Chicken with Salty Shallot Sauce can be a main dish or served as nibbles with drinks. This is a special Sautéed Chicken as the meat is from chicken necks. Today’s dish is…
Today’s sashimi tuna is served in quite a different way. The sashimi is sealed with boiling water first, then marinated in soy sauce flavour before slicing. With a white trim around each slice, and semi-transparent dark red meat in the centre, Marinated Sashimi Tuna looks very attractive. It is also tasty without dipping soy sauce. This is…
A Happy New Year!! Have a lot of happy days ahead in the year. I call this ‘Japanese Style Scrambled Eggs’ because it looks like scrambled eggs, although the eggs are cooked with some vegetables in a dashi-based, lightly flavoured broth. It is a great side dish or even a main dish if you want…
