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Spinach and Chicken Salad with Sesame Sauce

Spinach and Chicken Salad with Sesame Sauce

Spinach and Chicken Salad with Sesame Sauce is a variation of Spinach Salad with Sesame Sauce. It’s also called Gomaae. By adding chicken, the dish becomes more nutritious and fulfilling as a side dish or even a main dish for lighter meal. This can be made ahead as a part of your meal prep, and it’ll last 4-5 days in the fridge. But we don’t guarantee there will be much left over once you start eating. Spinach and Chicken Salad with Sesame Sauce is easy to make, healthy, and of course super delicious. All the ingredients are accessible and found at your local markets. Try this at home!

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Miso Soup with Soy Milk

Miso Soup with Soy Milk

Today’s Miso soup is with soy milk. Unsweetened soy milk is the base for this soup, and it gives the soup a mild creamy flavor. Miso paste and soy milk are both made from soy beans, and of course they blend in perfect harmony. Together with Abuuraage thin fried Tofu, this is a triple soy-licious dish! Because Kombu sea kelp Dashi and Shimeji mushrooms add extra depth to the flavor, there’s no need to add any animal-derived ingredients. Miso Soup with Soy Milk is packed with Umami flavor, and it’s a vegetarian and vegan friendly soup (But it’s hearty enough to satisfy meat eaters too). Hope you like it!

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Honey Sesame Chicken Wings

Honey Sesame Chicken Wings

Honey Sesame Chicken Wings are deep-fried wings coated with honey sesame sauce. These are very easy to make and a great appetizer for holiday and game day gatherings. Honey sesame sauce is a little bit sweet and a little bit tangy, and the smell of sesame is so appetizing. 16 chicken wings in the recipe are not enough? No problem! You can make double or triple batches easily. We’re sure these finger-licking good chicken wings will be a big hit for your family and friends. Try them soon!

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Miso Soup with Somen Noodles

Miso Soup with Somen Noodles

Today’s miso soup is with Somen Noodles. Somen are dried thin vermicelli noodles made mainly from wheat flour. They are most often eaten cold in summer, but are nice in hot soup too. Because Somen are so thin, the cooking time is very fast. And that means they will get soft if left sitting in soup too long. Add the cooked noodles to the soup just before serving. If you like this soup as a simple meal by itself, increase the amount of Somen. It’ll become a very easy lunch. We hope you like it!

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No-Fold Gyoza

No-Fold Gyoza

No-Fold Gyoza are Gyoza dumplings with pork filling but without complicated folding. Usually, you seal the Gyoza skin to keep the filling neatly inside by making kind of troublesome pleats. But here, the filling is merely wrapped in the skin by rolling. Super easy! It may not look as pretty as the regular one, but it’s still as tasty as always. This also freezes beautifully. One day make multiple batches and freeze, and have Gyoza dinners later on busy nights. No defrosting needed beforehand, but just cook a little longer. Hope you try this simple but delicious Gyoza soon!

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Miso Soup with Broken Tofu and Nori

Miso Soup with Broken Tofu

Today’s Miso Soup is with Broken Tofu and Nori roasted seaweed. This may be the easiest miso soup we have done yet. Medium hard Tofu is broken apart into chunks by hand, and Nori is also torn by hand. No knives and cutting boards are involved. On top of the nice oceanic aroma of Nori seaweed, toasted sesame seeds give the soup another layer of nice fragrance. And all is done in 10 minutes – that’s not bad at all. Hope you try this easy and delicious miso soup at home!

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Matcha Dorayaki

Matcha Dorayaki

Matcha Dorayaki is a version of the popular Japanese sweet Dorayaki with Anko sweet red bean paste sandwiched between fluffy matcha-flavored pancakes. The harmony of sweetness of the red beans and the slight bitterness from Matcha works very well. If you like Matcha flavor, you have to try it! You can make homemade Anko yourself from our library. Or you may opt to buy prepared Anko from Japanese markets, which is fine too. Because the pancakes contain more sugar than regular American pancakes, cook a small number at a time to be able to handle better without burning them. Have Matcha Dorayaki at a calming teatime for one, or share this delicious dessert with friends and family. Hope you like it!

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Miso Soup with Steamed Rice

miso soup with steamed rice

Today’s miso soup is with Steamed Rice. Steamed rice gives miso soup some body, by very slightly thickening it. It is still a soup, not Okayu porridge or Zosui. It’s a perfect dish when you’re not feeling well and have no appetite. This simpler and milder soup is easy to take in, but it’s still got some substance to give your body energy. Hope you like it!

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Udon Carbonara

Udon Carbonara

Udon Carbonara is an Udon noodle dish which is mixed in a scrumptiously eggy and cheesy Carbonara sauce. Spaghetti Carbonara is one of the most popular Italian pasta dishes in Japan, and people there just love the taste of this pasta with savory creamy sauce. This Carbonara sauce may not be authentic Italian, but it is super easy to make for anybody. In fact, it actually takes only 15 minutes from start to finish. The rich Carbonara sauce clings to the chunky, chewy Udon noodles, and it is absolutely delicious. It is certainly not traditional, but it’s a kind of dish Japanese people eat as an everyday meal. Hope you try it!

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Miso Soup with Satsumaimo Sweet Potato

Miso Soup with Satsumaimo Sweet Potato

Today’s miso soup uses Satsumaimo Japanese sweet potato.(さつまいも) Satsumaimo is a great vegetable for sweet dishes and desserts, and it works in miso soup very well too. You can add meat and other vegetables to this, but we wanted it to be simple here so that the taste of sweet potato is accentuated in the dish. Enjoy the flavor combination of Satsumaimo’s mild sweetness and savory miso. Hope you like it!

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