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 …
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Beef Udon (Niku Udon)
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 …
Chicken and Egg Rice Bowl (Oyakodon)
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 …
Japanese Croquettes (Korokke)
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 …
Teriyaki Chicken
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 …
Tea Braised Pork (Kocha buta)
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 …
Soba Noodles with Grated Japanese Radish and Citrus Sudachi (Sudachi oroshi soba)
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 …
Roasted Salmon in Foil (Sake no hoiru yaki)
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 …
Cucumber Salad with Salted Plum and Kelp (Kyuri no ume shio konbu ae)
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 …
Ramen with Starchy Sauce (Sanma-men)
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 …