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Snow Pea Leaves Warm Salad (Nibitashi)

This is a very elegant and light salad that takes no more than 10 minutes to make. Snow pea leaves and aburaage (fried thin tofu) are simmered in a lightly flavoured dashi broth. Use konbu dashi to make a vegetarian version of Snow Pea Leaves Warm Salad.

Snow Pea Leaves Warm Salad in a bowl..

About Nibitashi (Warm Salad)

When I posted Spinach Ohitashi Salad I talked about where the word ‘ohitashi’ (お浸し) came from. Today’s dish has a very similar name to ‘ohitashi’ and it is called ‘nibitashi’ (煮浸し). Can you recognise the same characters between the two?…

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LATEST RECIPES

Stuffed Sardines with Perilla and Pickled Plum

Deep fried stuffed sardines served on green salad leaves.

Deep fried crumbed sardine is pretty tasty, but when you stuff a sardine fillet with perilla leaves and pickled plum, it almost eliminates the fishiness of the sardine. Stuffed Sardines with Perilla and Pickled Plum is perfect as an appetiser or a main dish. Sardines used to be extremely cheap in Australia. I like the fish with…

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Home-made Ramen Broth Recipe

Shōyu ramen using Home-made Ramen Broth.

My version of Ramen Broth is made from a combination of pork bones, chicken carcasses and bonito flakes. It takes few hours to make but it is not very difficult. It can also be made in the slow cooker or pressure cooker! Today’s Ramen Broth recipe was developed in reply to one of the recipe requests from…

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Cabbage Rolls – Japanese Style

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Japanese Style Cabbage Rolls is one of the popular dishes originating from Western cuisine. Pork and beef mince (ground meat) is stuffed in cabbage leaves and cooked in chicken stock with a few bacon pieces. Cabbage roll recipes are everywhere on the internet but many of them are cooked in tomato-based soup. My cabbage rolls are cooked…

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Bento Box – Chicken Karaage Bento

Inside of Karaage Bento.

The Japanese Bento Box is the ultimate meal prep, consumed by millions of Japanese people every day. Today’s bento recipe is Chicken Karaage Bento. I re-posted the Karaage recipe with a video and updated blog contents last week, and you might be thinking of making karaage this week. Then you would want to take some…

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Japanese Fried Chicken (Karaage Chicken)

Japanese Fried Chicken (Karaage Chicken) - An authentic recipe, perfectly golden, crispy and seasoned. My grown up kids still beg me to make this for them! https://japan.recipetineats.com

Karaage Chicken is one of the most popular Japanese dishes not only within Japan but abroad as well. The chicken is marinated with soy sauce, sake, ginger and mirin to give a touch of sweetness. Chicken pieces are deep fried twice to make them crunchy on the outside and juicy inside – a little known secret outside…

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Japanese Vermicelli Salad (Harusame Salad)

Zoomed-in photo of Japanese Vermicelli Salad.

Japanese Vermicelli Salad (Harusame Salad) is a refreshing summery salad with julienned ham, cucumber, carrot and wakame seaweed. It is simple and fast to make. It can also be a main dish just like noodle dishes! Vermicelli Salad is one of the salads that are always sold at ‘depachika’ (デパ地下) – the food markets on…

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