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Homemade Japanese takoyaki octopus balls by kurumicooks tasty easy authentic Japanese Asian and Fusion cooking for your kitchen

have fun with a Takoyaki maker

Takoyaki is one f the street food in Japan. but you can also make Takoyaki at home.

Japanese Seafood dishes

Egg and Avocado Onigirazu

Egg and Avocado Onigirazu.

Japanese light meals

Okonomiyaki Japanese savoury pancake with cabbage carrot spring onion and ginger topped with bacon kewpie mayonnaise okonomiyaki sauce and katsuobushi by kurumicooks delicious easy to make healthy Japanese cooking for your kitichen

Okonomiyaki..Japanese savoury pancake with bacon

Okonomiyaki with Bacon. I make lots of different okonomiyaki, some just with veg, some with meat as well as some "fusion-yaki" like one with a cheddar cheese filling

Japanese light meals

Cheese and Ham Onigirazu by kurumicooks tasty easy healthy Japanese Asian and Fusion cooking and food for your kitchen

Cheese and Ham meets Onigirazu

Onigirazu.

Japanese light meals

A blue patterned bowl holds white rice topped with natto and sliced green onions, against a dark gray background.

Classic Natto and Rice

Classic Natto and Rice I made my latest batch of natto last week & posted a "How to make natto" article on the blog - I hope you liked it if you saw it. Now that I've got a nice stash of the sticky superfood prepared, I'm ready to provide some ideas for how to use it to create some tasty and very healthy dishes. I'm starting with the "classic" way to eat natto - with a bowl of steamed white rice - this is widely eaten for breakfast in Japan but don't let that stop you eating

Japanese light meals

Three onigiri with various fillings (edamame, salmon, corn) wrapped in seaweed, displayed on a plate against a dark background.

Onigiri 3 ways

Onigiri-Rice balls.

Japanese light meals

Two shisomiso and chicken onigirazo and two atto and spring onion onigirazurice which are seaweed wraps with greens and light filling, wrapped in plastic, on a gray plate with three ripe cherry tomatoes.

Shisomiso and Natto Onigirazu

Shisomiso and chicken Onigirazu and Natto and spring onion Onigirazu You might remember I posted an item on making shisomiso a couple of weeks ago. I put some of it to good use in some onigirazu, paired with chicken & spinach - super healthy & very tasty. At the same time, I also made some onigirazu using natto & spring onion - very yum also. These are great mainstays for a healthy lunch box, a picnic or just as a snack if you are on the go and in need of a nutricious energy

Japanese light meals

Okonomiyaki with Chicken

My family are big fans of Japanese savoury pancakes (AKA Okonomiyaki) so it's a regular on our table at lunch and dinner.

Japanese light meals

fried udon with pork carrots mangetout and pointed cabbage seasoned with dashi granules mirin soy sauce and bonito flakes presented on a Noritake serving platter by kurumicooks easy to make delicious healthy Japanese Asian and Fusion cooking for your kitchen

Fried Udon noodles with Pork

Fried Udon noodles with Pork I sometimes wonder why people order takeaways when can they make the same meal more quickly, healthier and cheaper with a minimum of fuss effort. Here's a great example that makes a super lunch or supper - stir fried Udon with Pork. I am not going to lay claim to this as a Japanese dish - you can find it served all over East and South East Asia. It's ready in under twenty minutes (and I'm sure it'll be wolfed down at the table in less than half th

Japanese light meals

Two onigiri with miso sauce and sesame seeds on a patterned white plate, set against a dark background, creating a simple and appetizing mood.

Dry fried Onigiri with Miso sauce

Dry fried (Yaki) Onigiri with Mis sauce.

Japanese light meals

A white bowl with rice, grilled salmon, seaweed, sesame seeds, and greens in a light broth. Dark background adds contrast.

Ochazuke with Salmon

Ochazuke with Salmon I hope you all had a great Christmas and saw 2020 in with lots of good things to eat and drink. If, like me, you ate more than you probably should have, you might feel in need of a little tummy physiotherapy, so over the next few weeks, I'll be posting a few lighter recipes to help you get back on the straight and narrow. The recipe featured here is Ochazuke with salmon. Ochazuke in Japanese simply means a dish that involves pouring water, dashi stock or

Japanese Seafood dishes

Japanese ochazuke made from a packet by kurumicooks Japanese Asian and Fusion cooking for your kitchen.

Ochazuke has come a long way

Ochazuke Hello everyone. You might have seen a post I made in January titled, "..a little detox anyone.?" The recipe was for " ochazuke " - a simple dish consisting of a bowl of rice in hot water with some fish and vegetable toppings. Ochazuke must be the oldest dish in Japanese history - it certainly goes back 1,000 + years. Apparently, it began because people hit upon the fact that they could make cooked rice that was a few days old more palatable by re-hydrating it. So, th

Japanese light meals

A bowl of rice topped with shredded seaweed, green onions, tuna, and sesame seeds, set against a light purple background.

Tuna Ochazuke in Minutes

Tuna Ochazuke Ochazuke may just be Japan's oldest dish. I blogged about instant ochazuke recently and that reminded me that I should publish some more diy ochazuke recipes - instant ochazuke (the stuff you get in packets) takes no time at all - the quality of the contents is variable but in the end, you get what you pay for. But you'd be surprised that making ochazuke yourself is also a very quick process - you're less than 10 minutes away from a little (or large) bowl of go

Japanese Seafood dishes