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My blog has over 30 categories featuring Japanese home cooking recipes as well as Chinese, Thai, Korean and fusion dishes. There's something for everybody! Click the More tab below to see what you can find.

Tantan Ramen

Tantan Ramen is know as Tantanmen in Japan.

Japanese One Bowl Meals

Bowl of stir-fried beef with green peppers, onions, and eggplant / aubergine on rice. Set on red patterned cloth with chopsticks beside it.

Stir fried Miso Pork and Aubergine Donburi

Japanese donburi of stir fried pork and aubergine / eggplant flavoured with a rich, umami-full miso sauce.

Japanese One Bowl Meals

A dish of stir fried tofu, red peppers, and greens on rice in a bowl, with a wooden spoon. Background features a colorful patterned cloth.

Stir fried Tofu Donburi

This dish takes about 25 minutes from the work surface to the table and that includes the time to drain the water out of the tofu, so not only is it healthy and delicious, it's quick and quite simple too. What's not to like about that?

Japanese One Bowl Meals

Patterned bowl with sliced chicken, lettuce, tomato, and greens on noodles. Blue and white design, dark background, fresh and colorful. Hiyashi chuka.

Chicken Noodle Salad with Sesame Dressing AKA Hiyashi Chuka

On a hot summer day, a bowl of noodles might not be the first thing that comes to mind when you think of lunch or dinner.

Japanese Summer dishes

A bowl of stir-fried mushrooms with green onions and red peppers, in a patterned blue bowl with a red rim, on a dark background. donburi.

Kinoko Donburi - Mushroom Rice Bowl

This is a vegan rice bowl as well as for mushroom lavers' dish.

Japanese Vegetable dishes

A bowl of sukiyaki chicken, carrots, mushrooms, and green vegetables on rice, with chopsticks on top. Patterned bowl on striped fabric.

Chicken Sukiyaki Donburi (Chicken Suki-Don)

This is easy recipe for Chicken Sukiyaki Donburi.

Japanese One Bowl Meals

Bowl of rice topped with steak and green onions in a blue-patterned dish. The glossy meat and fresh garnish create a savory look.

Steak Donburi with Wasabi Butter sauce

Tasty and easy steak donburi rice bowl recipe.

Japanese One Bowl Meals

Japanese beef bowl gyudon by kurumicooks tasty easy healthy Japanese Asian and Fusion cooking and food for your kitchen

Japanese beef bowl AKA Gyudon

My recipe this week is a Japanese classic - Japanese beef bowl AKA Gyudon - which translates rather simply as "beef bowl".

Japanese Beef and Lamb dishes

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

Oyakodon

Here is a classic Japanese dish called Oyakodon that you'll find in homes and restaurants throughout the country.

Japanese Egg dishes

Crispy fried pork Katsu on lettuce in a bowl, garnished with green herbs, lemon wedges, and sauce, set against a dark background.

Pork Sauce Katsudon

Basically that means a Tonkatsu fillet served on a bed of rice and soft cabbage and given a good slathering of Bulldog brown sauce.

Katsu dishes

A white bowl with tofu and egg topped with fresh arugula. The dish sits on a light background, creating a clean, appetizing look. Donburi.

Tofu & Egg Donburi

Tofu & Egg Donburi If you haven't already noticed, I am a big fan of one bowl donburi dishes (a donburi being a bed of steamed rice on top of which a variety of accompaniments are piled.) A little while ago, I posted a recipe for Oyakodon (AKA Mother & Child donburi), which has a topping of chicken and egg. Here is a non-meat alternative substituting tofu for the chicken. The key with this dish is to cook the tofu long enough so it takes up a little of the flavour of the s

Tofu dishes

A black bowl with shrimp and vegetable tempura on rice, placed on a magenta cloth. The bowl has butterfly patterns and Asian script.

Tendon with Prawns

The Japanese have a love of abbreviations and so it is with this dish - "tendon" is the short form of "tempura donburi",

Tempura dishes

A bowl of cod tempura over rice, featuring golden-brown seafood and green vegetables. The bowl has a blue floral pattern, set on a dark surface.

Cod Fillet Tendon

Cod Fillet Tendon Here's a recipe that you could call, with just a little stretch of the imagination, "Japanese fish and Chips". You get a fillet of cod fried in tempura batter served on a bed of the staple Japanese food - steamed rice. Of course, it wouldn't be a Japanese meal without some vegetables and here you get slices of sweet potato, carrot and rocket - these were my choices from the larder - you could use other combinations that take your fancy. No salt' n 'vinegar

Tempura dishes