Garlic Chicken features pan-fried chicken thighs cooked in garlic-infused oil with a light soy-flavored sauce. The chicken is lightly coated with flour before cooking, resulting in a crispy exterior and juicy interior. The aroma of garlic stimulates your appetite and makes every bite irresistible. While this easy dish isn’t traditional Japanese cuisine, it’s a kind of food Japanese people eat regularly and it makes a great dinner option for anyone in any occasion.
Garlic Edamame are stir-fried and seasoned whole Edamame pods with garlic sauce. It is not the traditional Japanese Edamame appetizer, which is usually simply pods boiled with salt, but a rather Americanized Japanese dish. Garlic Edamame may be new, but it is a very flavorful tasty little appetizer that goes with Japanese beer and Chuhai.
Japanese style garlic fried rice is often served at Teppanyaki restaurants as a side dish for steaks or grilled seafood. Minced fresh garlic is slowly cooked in olive oil and butter in a frying pan, and the cooked steamed rice is fried in the aromatic oil. Similar to garlic noodles or garlic bread, the flavor combination of garlic, oil, and rice can’t go wrong. This is an easy to make side dish, and the flavor is so addictive! You can double the recipe if you cook on a griddle or a large skillet.