Authentic Japanese Home Cooking
Cream Cheese Dips are not Japanese dishes, but I am posting Cream Cheese Dip with Spicy Pollock Roe (Mentai Cheese Dip) because the flavour comes from spicy pollock roe, which is a popular Japanese ingredient.
Like most dips, Cream Cheese Dip with Spicy Pollock Roe is very easy to make and is full of flavour from the mentaiko (spicy pollock roe). The slight spiciness is quite addictive….
Japanese-style Sweet Corn Soup is made with sweet corn, and is my third Surinagashi recipe. Unlike Western-style corn soup, Corn Surinagashi does not use milk or cream. The flavour comes from the corn itself and konbu dashi, making it a low-calorie vegetarian soup. Like Pumpkin Surinagashi, it is a quick and easy soup. Using sweet…
Chicken and Cabbage Simmered in Milk is a comforting dish made with juicy, tender chicken breast, Chinese cabbage, and bacon cooked in milk. It looks almost like a stew, but I wouldn’t call it a stew because the ingredients are not slow cooked for a long time, and the broth is not thick either. It’s…
After using a small amount of snow pea shoots in salads or as garnishes, I make Stir-fried Snow Pea Sprouts to use up the rest. I find this is the best way to consume a large amount of snow pea sprouts because they come in a pack with quite a lot of shoots. My Stir-fried…
Temari Sushi are small balls of sushi rice topped with colourful ingredients. They are the perfect finger food for special occasions and certainly have a wow factor. In Japan, they are often served during the Hinamatsuri (Doll’s Day/Girl’s Day) festival on the 3rd of March. Since each piece of sushi needs to be shaped individually,…
If you want to consume a large amount of cabbage with minimal effort, Tuna Cabbage Salad is the way to go. I made this after making Simmered Layered Cabbage and Mince because there was so much cabbage left. I included julienned carrots to add a bright colour to the salad, but it tastes equally good…
Yūan-style Grilled Fish is an elegantly grilled dish. It is made by grilling fish fillets after marinating them in sake, mirin, and soy sauce with slices of citrus – most commonly yuzu. The characteristic of Yūan-style Grilled Fish is its refreshing flavour with a scent of citrus. It is a tsukeyaki dish, which I introduced…
