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Karaage is a type of cooking technique for deep-fried ingredients such as meat, fish, or vegetables covered with potato starch or a combination of flour and potato starch in oil. It doesn’t necessarily have to be a chicken but generally speaking, when people say “Karaage” in Japan, it is imagined as fried chicken. Japanese fried…
Niku Udon is one type of udon noodle with beef as toppings. We in Japan have different kinds of noodle meals, such as ramen, a Chinese type of soba, soba, and udon. In particular, when you visit a noodle restaurant, you see noodles with a lot of different types of toppings there as well. This…
Oyakodon is one of the classic Japanese home-cooking dishes. I think the name of the food is interesting because, in Japanese, oyako means parent and child, and don is a short form of donburi which means rice bowl. This dish is used mainly chicken and egg, that is where this name came from. You can…
Korokke is a Japanese deep fried, which is basically fried mashed potatoes with batter made of bread crumbs. This is one classic Japanese main dish. The most basic korokke ingredients are potatoes, minced meat, and onions. Korokke is usually shaped round, so it is a good size and shape to hold in your hand and…
Teriyaki chicken is a simple easy main dish used teriyaki sauce. Teriyaki is something like sweet soy sauce made of 4 basic condiments such as soy sauce, cooking sake, mirin, and sugar. We have many Japanese foods that go with teriyaki sauce. You might find bottles of teriyaki at a supermarket but we don’t have…
This is a very simple main dish braised in tea and has no seasoning on the pork block itself. It will take time but you don’t really need to do anything about it. By braising pork with tea, the meat becomes flavored, and tender and makes it less heavy. There are some varieties of pork…
Sudachi oroshi soba is a type of soba noodle with grated Japanese radish and citrus sudachi. Soba can be eaten either chilled or hot, this soba is a chilled noodle dish that is served with a dipping sauce(mentsuyu). Citrus sudachi is one citrus fruit, with green peel, and light green fruit flesh, that looks like…
Sake no hoiru yaki is one of my favorite main dishes. I like roasted cooking because it is simple but looks fancy. This dish is great because you can have both protein from salmon and any other nutritious things in vegetables. The best thing to roast in foil is you can put all the smells…
This is a simple side dish, using pickled plum and salt kelp. Speaking of Japanese rice balls (Onigiri), many people in Japan would imagine pickled plum or kelp inside them. These ingredients are a pretty good match for Japanese rice. Pickled plum aka umeboshi in Japanese is a plum that is packed in salt and…
Sanma-men is a type of ramen with lots of different kinds of vegetables in starchy sauce. This ramen originally came from Yokohama Kanagawa prefecture in Japan. It is one of the famous soul foods in Yokohama, Kanagawa. Ramen soup is soy sauce based and starchy sauce makes you keep warm. It has a lot of…