Soy Sauce Pickled Jabara Cucumber
This dish is a type of tsukemono, or “pickled thing”. What’s special about this Japanese recipe is the way the cucumbers are cut. Score one side …
Green Pea Rice
Rice is central to most Japanese meals. It is often dressed up according to the season, or in celebration of something. For example: on March …
Kuwayaki Chicken
Kuwa is the Japanese word for hoe. Legend has it that Japanese farmers would cook this dish directly on the flat part of their hoes! No …
Carrot Shirishiri
In Japanese, this dish is called ninjin no shirishiri, or shredded carrot. Japanese is full of onomatopoeic words, and shirishiri happens to be one of them. It indicates the noise …
Daigaku Imo
Daigaku imo means university potatoes! The name of this dish is said to have one of two origins. One is rather romantic and the other is …
Quick Spinach Ohitashi
Spinach ohitashi is a standard side dish that fits beautifully in the traditional ichiju sansai (i.e. one soup, three side dishes) meal format. Ohitashi comes …
Chicken Tatsutaage (aka Karaage)
Tatsutaage is a type of karaage, an umbrella term for deep-fried food. Both karaage and tastutaage usually refer to chicken, although fish and other ingredients can also be used. There are …
Lightly Pickled Turnip
The Japanese turnip is quite a versatile vegetable. If cooked it will become soft to the point of crumbling in your mouth, and eaten raw …
Cucumber and Wakame Sunomono
Sunomono means vinegared thing, but generally refers to a veggie salad dressed with vinegar. The most common type of sunomono is the simple one we …
Chicken Soborodon
This donburi dish features rice topped with deliciously flavoured minced chicken, softly sweet egg, and crisp snow peas. You can make both chicken and egg soboro …
Teriyaki Chicken
Teriyaki is a cooking technique in which the main ingredient is glazed in a soy-based, sweetened sauce while cooking. The name itself refers to the shine …