Kyuri Bainikuae (cucumber with plum sauce)
Kyuri Bainikuae is cucumber with Umeboshi sour plum sauce. Â This is a refreshing side dish/salad with a distinctive sour flavor, without being vinegary, and will go well with any Japanese meal.
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Tomato Santa and Cucumber Christmas Tree Recipe
There are a lot of tricks to make pretty shapes and cute characters with food in Japan. You can see more traditional ones like plum flower-shaped carrots in Chikuzenni, and also Tako Sausage for Bento box.Tomato Santa and Cucumber Christmas Tree are a Christmas version of this style. You can not only use these as…
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Atsuage Recipe
Atsuage is deep fried Tofu that you can use without any breaking or using batter. Â Atsuage is an important ingredient in Japanese cooking, especially in Nimono (boiled and seasoned vegetables and meat). Â Because it is made of Tofu, it is healthy plant-based protein, but it has a little more body and deeper flavor from being…
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Vegetable Gyoza Recipe
Gyoza is dumplings, usually ground pork or chicken and vegetables wrapped in round (fresh pasta like) flour skins and pan-fried. Gyoza is originally from Chinese fried dumplings, but it is so popular and rooted well in Japanese cuisine today. Most of the time, Japanese Gyoza is pan fried (with some steaming action in the middle), however, here we deep-fry to make…
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Buta Kimchi Recipe
Buta Kimchi is stir-fried pork and Kimchi, chili pickled nappa cabbage. This spicy dish is popular in Japan at Izakaya (bars which serve a lot of small appetizers with drinks) and also at home as a quick and easy appetizer.
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Harumaki (Egg Roll) Recipe
Harumaki (or spring roll actually in Japanese) are deep-fried egg rolls which are known well in Chinese cuisine in the US.  Many people who are not familiar with much Japanese food may even have had Harumaki at some point of life. Harumaki is also a popular Chinese dish in Japan, similar to Gyoza dumplings. You can find Harumaki at Chinese restaurants…
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Sauteed Mushrooms with Soy Butter Sauce Recipe
There are a lot of kinds of mushrooms in Japanese cuisine, but here we have a dish using the three most easily accessible ones: Shiitake, Shimeji, and Enoiki (Enokitake).  This Sauteed Mushrooms with Soy Butter Sauce is a wonderful side dish to any kind of entree, even non-Japanese food.  And also this mushroom dish will bring the…
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Chicken Tatsutaage Recipe
Tatsutaage is like Karaage, seasoned and deep-fried meat or fish.  Just like our Saba Tatsutaage, chicken pieces are marinated in soy sauce, rolled in Katakuriko (potato starch) instead of wheat flour, and deep-fried.  Tatsutaage may be a little lighter and crispier than Karaage.
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Cucumber with Sesame Seeds
Cucumber with Sesame Seeds is such a simple salad but a great small side dish. It takes literally no time to make it. The only tip here is to pound cucumbers with a pestle or a rolling pin to break them apart instead of cutting with a knife. Having a rough surface on the cucumbers makes seasonings adhere well.
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Tsukune Recipe
Tsukune are Japanese chicken meat balls with a kind of Teriyaki sauce and are popular at Yakitori restaurants. Often times, small Tsukune meat balls are skewered on bamboo sticks and grilled on the coal barbecue grill, but they don’t have to be. Here they are shaped like small hamburger steaks and cooked in a frying…
