Authentic Japanese Home Cooking
Sweet Red Bean Paste (Anko) is a versatile ingredient that is used to make many Japanese sweets. It is made from just azuki beans, sugar and a pinch of salt. The process of making it is very simple.
You can not only make traditional Japanese sweets with Anko, but also spread Anko on a piece of bread just like you spread peanut butter. It also goes well with ice cream and cream….
Sesame Crusted Salmon (Rikhyū-age Salmon) is a quick and flavoursome dish. Completely covered with sesame seeds, you can enjoy the contrast between the crunchy outside and the soft salmon inside. Shallow-fried salmon has a subtle flavour that enhances the flavour of the delicate sesame rather than burying it with other strong flavour. It is not…
Marinated Mushrooms is a handy side dish that you can make and keep in the fridge for 4-5 days. You can even freeze it. Slightly sour with a touch of sweetness, Easy Marinated Mushrooms (Japanese Marinade) is very simple to make and requires only few ingredients to marinate. To make the dish authentic, I used…
The hero of today’s dish, Simmered Pork Patties and Chinese Cabbage, is not the pork patties. It is the Chinese cabbages. The cabbages are sautéed, then simmered with the pork patties in a lightly flavoured sauce until they melt in your mouth. Simmered Pork Patties and Chinese Cabbage is a Japanese home-cooking dish that you…
Even without using dashi stock, the savoury egg custard in this simple Fish Chawanmushi has a great flavour. It only contains fish pieces but it is so tasty and enjoyable. Red-skinned fish is the key to making this dish look great. I always made the standard version of Chawanmushi that you can find in my…
Candied Sweet Potato is a simple Japanese snack food. Bite-sized sweet potato pieces are deep-fried, then tossed in a sticky syrup. The sweet potatoes are crunchy on the outside and fluffy on the inside. They’re so delicious that you won’t be able to stop eating them. Candied Sweet Potato (Daigaku Imo) is mainly consumed in…
Spaghetti Napolitan (Japanese Ketchup Pasta) is one of the popular yōshoku (Western-style food) dishes. The uniqueness of this pasta is the sauce that is based on ketchup/tomato sauce (Aussie), making the colour of the pasta almost red. It is a simple pasta dish but very tasty. The name of the dish sounds like the Italian…
