Authentic Japanese Home Cooking
This Chicken Stir Fry recipe was no doubt originated from China but modified to suit to Japanese palate – no garlic. You can use a large amount of celery in this recipe. Carrots and cashew nuts add the colour and extra flavour to the dish. The sauce is thick and clear.
Traditional Japanese dishes do not use garlic to give flavour to the dish. So, it is quite understandable that many Chinese-style dishes in Japanese cuisine use far less garlic than the original version….
The Japanese Bento Box is the ultimate meal prep, consumed by millions of Japanese people every day. Today’s bento recipe is Tonkatsu Bento (Japanese pork schnitzel). It is intended to be eaten at room temperature, as everyone does in Japan. Bento (弁当) is a single portion meal packed in a container. The bento box is the…
This is a Japanese version of Egg Drop Soup called Kakitama-jiru. Kakitama-jiru broth is based on dashi stock, but Chinese egg drop soup is made with chicken stock. Fluffy eggs in the soup look almost like ribbons. The Japanese name of this soup, ‘Kakitama-jiru’ (かきたま汁), does not translate to Egg Drop Soup. The English name…
My version of Simple Kimchi uses commonly available ingredients. You need a minimum of 3 days to make it, but the actual time required to make Simple Kimchi is only 30 minutes or so. Kimchi is a staple Korean side dish that is often made from salted and fermented vegetables. Most common kimchi uses Chinese…
Japanese Okra with Bonito Flakes is the simplest way of eating okra in Japan. All you need to do is just boil, slice and serve with bonito flakes and soy sauce. Sliced okra is a bit crunchy and sticky. These are the appealing characteristics of okra. It goes well with rice. There are so many…
This Japanese Cheesecake is the most requested Japanese recipe on Nagi’s post ‘Request A Recipe!’. It’s light, fluffy, moist and less sweet than any other cheesecakes. After reading hundreds of recipe requests from the readers, Nagi told me that there were quite a few recipe requests that fell under my expertise, i.e. Japanese dishes. So,…
Shabu-shabu is a representative Japanese hotpot that is equally as well-known to foreigners as Sukiyaki. Cook paper-thin raw beef slices and vegetables in konbu (kelp) dashi broth and eat them with flavoursome dipping sauces. There are so many different kinds of hotpot dishes in Japan. While many of these hotpot dishes are from particular regions,…
