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Creamy Uni Pasta

Creamy Uni Pasta

Creamy Uni Pasta is a fusion of Italian and Japanese cuisine, celebrated for its rich, creamy flavor. Sea urchin (uni) has a strong oceanic taste with a unique balance of sweetness and saltiness, making it an ideal match for simple dishes like pasta. When combined with creamy ingredients like heavy cream, the uni’s rich flavor is further enhanced, creating a luxurious dish. Much like Tarako Spaghetti, Creamy Uni Pasta has become one of the most popular staple items at Japanese pasta restaurants over the past few decades, cherished by food lovers for its delicate and sophisticated taste.

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Onigiri Bento Lunch Recipe

Onigiri Bento

Onigiri Bento Lunch is a typical Japanese meal taken to schools and workplaces. It contains rice balls with various fillings and nori seaweed, and small side dishes. Because bento lunches are usually prepared in the morning when time is limited, they shouldn’t be too elaborate. Unless you’re willing to wake up very early to cook everything, all components except onigiri can be prepared the night before. Most side dishes can be leftovers from the previous night’s dinner. Simply make a little extra food and set it aside with the bento in mind.

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Teriyaki Burger Salad

Teriyaki Burger Salad

Teriyaki Burger Salad is a hearty and delicious salad made with burger ingredients. It is super easy to make as the only cooking required is to brown the ground meat. Since we don’t use buns for a salad, there is no need to form burger patties, either. You can simply cook the ground beef (or turkey) in a frying pan and season with a light homemade teriyaki sauce. While Teriyaki Burger is usually assembled with a sweet and thick teriyaki sauce, we cut down the sweetness in this recipe to be low-carb. There is no separate dressing needed for this salad, but you can add some oil and vinegar to the vegetables if you like. Teriyaki burger salad definitely satisfies a burger craving, but it’s so much healthier. If you like Teriyaki burger, you should definitely give this a try!

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Rolled Chicken with Vegetables Recipe

Rolled Chicken with Vegetables

Rolled Chicken with Vegetables is a dish featuring pan-fried chicken thighs rolled up with carrot and green beans, flavored with a light teriyaki sauce. This easy chicken recipe makes a great dinner option or an attractive addition to a Bento box for lunch. The lightly sweetened teriyaki sauce is perfect for everyday meals. We also have a similar recipe, Beef Roll Up with Vegetables, which is delicious too, but here, we’ve used chicken thighs, pounded thin, instead of thinly sliced beef. If you love chicken or prefer to avoid red meat, this dish is for you. To make it even healthier, consider using chicken breast. You can also experiment with other vegetables like asparagus or zucchini—just be sure to adjust the cooking time for the filling based on how tender the vegetables are. Choosing colorful vegetables will make the dish look even more appealing when sliced. We hope you give it a try!

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Egg and Mayo Toast

Egg and Mayo Toast

Today I’ll show you how to make a super easy and tasty toast dish. This isn’t traditional Japanese food, and it’s a little on the junk food side, but it’s a popular breakfast or snack food in a pinch. First, squeeze Japanese mayo along a slice of Shokupan toast bread. Then, drop an egg in the center of the toast and bake it in a toaster oven. That’s it! While the egg is cooking on the toast, you can get ready for school or work. The whole process takes just 10 minutes. You think there’s too much mayo on the toast? Yes, it is! But that’s what makes this dish so delicious. If you’re young, healthy, and resilient, this is the great snack for you. However, if you’re aging and watching what you eat more carefully, like me, this is a dish to enjoy only occasionally as a special treat. I hope you enjoy this quick and tasty dish!

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Kimbap Recipe

Kimbap

Kimbap is a Korean version of Futomaki or Norimaki, a kind of sushi roll with a variety of fillings such as vegetables and cooked meat or seafood wrapped in roasted Nori seaweed. It is much thicker than single-ingredient rolls like Tuna rolls or cucumber rolls, and the fillings for Kimbap are cooked and flavored individually. Kimbap is becoming increasingly popular in Japan in recent years, sold at convenience stores and even Kimbap specialty stores in large Japanese cities. The more kinds of fillings used, the more work it takes to make, but it’s worthwhile to have a variety of vegetables and meat to enjoy interesting harmony of different flavors.

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Chicken Tempura Recipe

Chicken Tempura

Chicken Tempura is deep-fried chicken breast pieces coated in Tempura batter. This hearty and delicious chicken is flavored simply with salt, and it’s a more casual dish than the traditional and elaborate Tempura dish with a variety of ingredients served with Tempura sauce. Variations of chicken Tempura are regional specialties in western Japan, where the region is known for its thriving poultry industry, but it is a solid home cooking dish after all. Chicken is relatively inexpensive and easily accessible, so chicken tempura has played an important role as a common food for the general public. The preparation method – thinly slicing the chicken, coating it in batter, and deep-frying – allows for quick cooking while providing a satisfying taste.

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Anmitsu Recipe

Anmitsu

Anmitsu is a traditional Japanese cold dessert, a bowl of jelly cubes made from agar (a substance derived from seaweed, “Kanten” in Japanese) topped with Anko (sweet red bean paste) and simple syrup. Anmitsu is loved by many, especially older generations in Japan, for its light, refreshing taste even with sweet Anko, and its visually appealing presentation showcasing cool translucent agar cubes. This chilled sweet is very soothing during hot and humid summers, and a nice afternoon treat to cool down.

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Lemon Somen

lemon somen

Lemon Somen is a cold somen noodle dish topped with sliced lemon and salted green onions. Somen is a summertime staple in Japan where it gets so unbearably hot and humid. The only thing you can eat in the middle of hot days can be cold somen noodles. It is quick and easy to prepare, so you don’t need to stand in the kitchen for too long, either. No wonder somen is one of the most commonly eaten lunch at home during the summer in Japan.

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