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Miso baked salmon is easy to make and tasty.

Easy Temari Sushi balls recipes using smoked salmon.

This is easy tasty Chinese style Prawns recipe at your home.

Fish Finger Musubi Here's my latest easy fusion creation. Fish Finger Musubi. I think I can safely claim to this dish being a Kurumicooks original - I haven't seen it anywhere else and it was just one of those serendipitious occasions when I found some fish fingers in the back of the freezer and wonder what to do with them for a quick lunch - eh, viola! The Fish Finger Musubi was born! If you know your Japanese, you'll know that a "musubi" translates as a "rice ball". Musubi

Cod with a Wasabi Soy Olive Oil dressing I am a big fan of cod. It's known in Japan as tara although it doesn't possess the symbolic status in there that it has in the UK. Cod is quite bland taste-wise which means it happily absorbs just about any flavour you wish to add to it. Mixing some wasabi, soy sauce and a quality olive oil brand with some soy sauce provides a punch, almost piquante, flavour to cod which I just love. I think you might just like it. too! When I make

Sea Bream Ochazuke If you've heard of ochazuke , you may know it is one of Japan's oldest forms of cooking. There is no exact equivalent meaning in English but roughly ochazuke means "put with tea" although "steeped in tea" might have a better resonance with English speakers. Anyway, linguistics apart, ochazuke as a dish probably started life with the use of water rather than tea. Until recent times, rice was a precious commodity and leftovers would have been recycled into o

This blog is about Salmon Sashimi Poke Bowl.

Teriyaki Salmon Donburi This week's recipe is Teriyaki Salmon Donburi. As you probably know, donburi in Japanese describes a dish where...

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

This is a classic tempura recipe.

House Vermont Curry roux is one of the popular curry in Japan. In this blog Im introducing 3 different curry.

Japanese grilled salted mackerel ( saba no shio yaki ) I think it is generally accepted that the Japanese diet is one of the most healthy in the world and a reason for the longevity of the population. I am sure that you know that the Japanese tend to eat lots of fish, a lot less meat and plenty of veggies. So, I thought I'd show you how to prepare a quick Japanese dinner set that is delicious, easy to make and very healthy. We'll start with the Japanese grilled salted ma

Of all the Western dishes that Japan has made it's own, I think doria might be my favourite.

This is quick and easy way to make TemakiSushi at home.

Kombu Tsukudani OK, first things first. What is tsukudani? Answer: Tsukudani is a cooking technique that involves simmering ingredients in a soy & mirin solution until the liquor has almost evaporated. Tskudani is a great way of creating a very concentrated umami flavour. But originally, tsukudani was used as a method of preserving foods in the days before refridgeration. Nowadays, kombu is the most common form of tsukudani but you can also use the technique with other ingred

Popular sushi rolls recipe.

Seafood stick Uramaki Sushi rolls Here's another "looks difficult but it's really not" recipe - seafood stick uramaki . Now, uramaki, as you'll already know if you're reading my blog, means "inside-out roll" and they're also known in the US as a California maki or California roll because that is where they were first made. The story goes that a sushi bar owner in California was struggling to get the locals to eat nori seaweed - obviously, if you don't want to eat nori, sushi

Are you in the mood for a dose of healthy Japanese cooking? This recipe features cod steak baked with a topping of miso-mayo sauce. I'm...

How to make Sushi Rolls.

Ebi fry is bread coated prawns or shrimp.