Tori Seiro
Seiro is the name of the boxed dish and bamboo mat traditionally used for chilled soba noodles. It is common to serve cold soba with …
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 …
Lightly Pickled Cabbage Salad
Green cabbage is best in the winter months. Its leaves are a darker shade of green than usual, and tend to be thinner and sweeter. …
Layered Napa Cabbage and Pork
A fatty cut of pork is best for this recipe, such as butabara (pork belly). Most Japanese recipes using pork or beef call for the meat …
Nori-Wrapped Scallops
This dish is called hotate no isobeyaki in Japanese. Breaking it down, hotate is the word for scallops, yaki means ‘cooked’, and isobe refers to the seaweed wrapping. Actually, isobe …
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 …
Miso Simmered Mackerel
This is a very popular Japanese recipe for home cooks. The relatively strong flavour of mackerel simmered in miso sauce pairs especially well with the …
Chrysanthemum Greens With Walnut Dressing
Chrysanthemum greens are a common ingredient in East Asian cuisine, but it’s not always easy to find them outside of Asia. Look for an Asian …
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 …
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 …
Simmered Napa Cabbage with Fried Tofu
As with some other leafy layer vegetables, there is a taste and texture hierarchy among napa cabbage leaves. The outer green leaves are somewhat tough, …