Authentic Japanese Home Cooking
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 adding another hot spice (wasabi) worked so well with watercress. Wasabi Dressing somehow makes the watercress less tangy….
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…
This is a very elegant soup, often served in Kaiseki ryōri (traditional Japanese multi-course haute cuisine). It might look technically difficult, but actually it is quite easy to make. Shrimp Balls (Ebi-shinjo) are made of fresh prawns/shrimp and fish cakes with seasonings. They are simply boiled and served in Clear Soup. If you want to…
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…
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…
