Authentic Japanese Home Cooking
Quick and easy Shiso Pesto Pasta is a perfect dish for a weeknight dinner. I decided to post this recipe at the same time as my Shiso Pesto recipe, because pesto on its own doesn’t really feed you unless you use it with something substantial.
Today’s dish takes no time to make. Once the pasta is cooked, it takes only a minute or two to toss it in the Shiso Pesto. However, there are a few extra considerations to make a great Shiso Pesto Pasta….
Shiso Pesto is a pesto made with perilla instead of basil. It has a slightly pungent, minty flavour compared to pesto made with basil. It can be used as a complete substitute for regular pesto. I referenced Nagi’s Pesto! recipe (I even copied the exclamation mark for the recipe title😅) to create my Shiso Pesto,…
My Matcha Roll Cake is a matcha-flavoured fluffy Swiss roll filled with a swirl of fresh cream. The contrast between green and white is striking, and the combination of fluffy sponge cake (almost like a chiffon cake!) and its elegant sweetness is characteristic of Japanese cakes. Although I don’t usually eat dessert after meals or…
Spicy Tuna Tartare with Pickled Daikon (Tuna Tataki) is very simple to make, as most tataki dishes are. My tuna tartare has a kick of spiciness from the Korean chilli paste, gochujang. The crunchy texture of the pickled daikon contrasts beautifully with the soft flesh of the finely chopped sashimi tuna. As mentioned in my…
These Steamed Gyoza Dumplings are a variation of the RecipeTin Eats Gyoza recipe. Instead of pan-frying the dumplings, they are steamed. The shape of my gyoza is different, but the filling is very similar to that of pan-fried gyoza. This recipe contains higher ratio of garlic chives than the standard gyoza, giving it a slightly…
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…
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…
