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A typical Japanese home cooking dish, Braised Burdock (Kinpira Gobō) is a vegetable side dish. Burdock root and carrot are cut into matchsticks and cooked in a slightly sweet soy sauce. It is very fast to make and can be made ahead of time.

Braised Burdock (Kinpira Gobō)

Very simple but refreshing salad that takes no time to make. Salty and sour pickled plum adds a unique flavour to the dressing, which goes so well with Daikon Salad.

Daikon Salad with Pickled Plum Dressing

an-fried eggplant topped with sweet miso sauce, Miso Grazed Eggplant (Nasu Dengaku) is a very simple side dish or appetiser. Sweet miso goes so well with eggplant, which melts in your mouth.

Miso Glazed Eggplant (Nasu Dengaku)

Scrambled Tofu is a delicious vegetarian side dish. Or perhaps you could call it a warm salad. It is a typical home cooking dish and quite simple to make.

Scrambled Tofu (Iri Dofu)

Edamame is served at Japanese restaurants but you can make it easily at home and it’s much cheaper. Perfect snack for a crowd. It goes very well with drinks, particularly beer, but I don’t mind any drinks with edamame.

Edamame

This is a quick side dish. Eggplant goes so well with miso and green capsicum adds bright colour to the dish. My recipe uses thinly sliced pork but you can make it without meat. Then it becomes a vegetarian dish.

Miso Stir Fry with Eggplant, Capsicum and Pork

The combination of rice, daikon (white radish) and aburaage (fried thin tofu) in daikon gohan is just perfect. This is another mixed rice recipe similar to Shimeji Gohan (rice with Shimeji Mushrooms) but the soy sauce flavour of the rice is slightly stronger. Use konbu dashi stock to make it 100% vegetarian.

Rice with White Radish (Daikon Takikomi Gohan)

This is a quick stir fry dish that originated in China. Beef, green pepper (capsicum) and bamboo shoots are cut into thin strips and cooked in soy flavoured sauce with a touch of oyster sauce.

Chinjao Rosu (Japanese Stir Fry with Beef and Bamboo Shoots)

This is an elegant looking dish suitable as an appetiser or a side dish. Steamed lotus root balls are made of grated lotus roots mixed with prawns (shrimps), gingko nuts and green peas.

Steamed Lotus Root Balls

Tataki kyuri is a simple but unique cucumber salad. By smashing the cucumbers, the dressing penetrates into each piece. Ginger and soy sauce in the dressing gives this salad a Japanese touch.

Tataki Kyuri (Smashed Cucumber Salad)

Hiyashi chūka is made with cold Chinese-style egg noodles, with sweet vinegar sauce and topped with vegetables, egg and ham. It is a great dish to have on a hot summer day.

Hiyashi Chūka (Cold Ramen)

Gomoku Gohan (Japanese Mixed Rice) is rice cooked in seasoned dashi stock with 5 vegetables. You can almost eat the rice by itself without any other dishes!

Gomoku Gohan (Japanese Mixed Rice)

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