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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.

Beetroot and Daikon Salad

This Beetroot and Daikon Salad recipe features three vegetables, beetroot, daikon and green beans.

Japanese salads

Shredded carrot salad with raisins, walnuts, and chives on a clear plate. Yellow rose in the blue checkered background.

Carrot and Celery Salad with Orange Rice Vinegar dressing

This salad features some everyday fruits and vegetables - carrot, celery, raisins and some walnuts. The dressing combines freshly squeezed orange juice and rice vinegar along with some extra virgin olive oil.

Japanese salads

Salad on a white plate with parma ham, kaki, cherry tomatoes, avocado, and balsamic glaze, set on a dark tabletop.

Kaki Persimmon and Parma ham salad with Balsamic glaze

The kaki (persimmon) ranks as one of my favourite fruits - it's soft, very sweet and has a beautiful mellow orange colour.

Japanese salads

A bowl of clear Japanese vegan dashi broth on a wooden board, surrounded by dried mushrooms and pieces of dark seaweed, creating a calming mood.

No Cook Vegan Dashi

A good umami-rich dashi is one of the foundations of Japanese cuisine as you probably know.

Vegan dishes

Stir fried sliced eggplant / aubergine with green onions and sesame seeds in a blue and yellow bowl. Colorful and appetizing dish on a light background.

Stir Fried Spicy Soy Eggplant

Health benefits aside, eggplant / aubergine is also a great vegetable for soaking up flavours, so when I make it, I like to accompany it with a rich sauce

Japanese side dishes

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

Colorful roasted vegetables with sesame seeds with soy and lemon dressing on a turquoise plate. The background features a striped pattern, creating a fresh, vibrant mood.

Roast Vegetables in a Soy Lemon dressing

Roasted vegetables in a good quality olive oil makes a meat free meal more fillling and satisfying than simmering can and even if you not vegetarian or vegan, it is still a good idea to eat a few main meals every week without any meat.

Vegan dishes

Glass bowl with a colorful salad of cauliflower, red peppers, celery, chickpeas, and cilantro with cumin & honey dressing in a glass bowl on a dark countertop. Two metal spoons beside it.

Chickpea and Cauliflower Salad with Cumin and Honey Dressing

The two main ingredients in the salad are, as the title suggests, chickpeas and cauliflower.

Japanese salads

Colorful salad with cherry tomatoes, yellow peppers, cucumbers, tofu, brown rice and sesame seeds on a white plate. Fork beside, bright setting.

Tofu and Brown Rice salad with Wasabi Soy dressing

This Tofu and Brown Rice salad with Wasabi Soy dressing is a delightful healthy dish with a Japanese flavour of dressing. This dish is also suitable for vegan.

Vegan dishes

Stir fried sugar snap peas, mushrooms, and corn on a white plate, garnished with parsley. Set on a red and white patterned tablecloth.

Stir Fried Sweetcorn, Sugar snaps and Shiitake

This Stir Fried Sweetcorn, Sugar snaps and shiitake dish is deceptively simple.

Japanese Vegetable dishes

Pumpkin gyoza, fried dumplings on a white plate with a small cup of yellow sauce. Patterned blue and red tablecloth in the background.

Pumpkin Gyoza with Mango dip

Pumpkin Gyoza with Mango dip With Halloween just around the corner, here's a pumpkin recipe that you can prepare in advance and serve on the day at your Halloween party. Now, you might be thinking - aren't gyoza savoury? Mango dip...really? Don't you gyoza serve with a mix of soy sauce and a little vinegar? And you would be right....or, you'd me right most of the time . But I invite you to think a little bit laterally and think about what a gyoza is exactly. Basically, it's

Celebration and Party dishes

Colorful salad with bean sprouts, red and yellow peppers, and green onions on a patterned blue plate, set on a neutral tablecloth.

Your 5-a-day in 5 minutes, Stir fried beansprouts

Super easy stir fried beansprouts recipe.

Japanese side dishes

Daikon Ribbon Salad

Simple and easy Daikon SaladRecipe.

Japanese salads

Vegetable Gyoza

Vegetable Gyoza I am sure I am not alone in being very, very partial to Gyoza. (AKA Chinese dumplings, AKA Potstickers.) I probably eat gyoza at least once a fortnight and if I am in the mood to be nice and offer my family a choice of evening meal, gyoza are usually somewhere near the top of the list when the hands go up. If you've read any of my restaurant reviews, you'll also know that I regard gyoza as one of my "acid tests" for restaurant quality. I have to admit that I f

Japanese Vegetable dishes

Japanese stocks for vegans and vegetarians by kurumicooks tasty easy healthy Japanese Asian and Fusion cooking and food for your kitchen

Japanese stocks for vegans and vegetarians - 3 ways

3 Japanese stocks which is suitable for vegan and vegetarian.

Vegan dishes

Chilled Japanese zaru soba noodles with dipping sauce and shiso kkaennip beefsteak leaf garnish by kurumicooks tasty easy healthy Japanese Asian and Fusion cooking and food for your kitchen

Chilled Japanese soba noodles / Zaru soba

Chilled Japanese Soba Noodles are called Zaru soba in Japanese. Zarusoba is easy and quick to cook and healthy dish as well.

Vegan dishes

A salad with cherry tomatoes, edamame, mushrooms, and leafy greens in a decorative bowl with a blue patterned rim. Bright and fresh.

Shiso and Mizuna salad

If you've been following my blog, (and I hope you have!) you'll remember that I have been growing Shiso and Mizuna salad. some Japanese salad veg this summer. In fact, it's been a bumper harvest and my shiso and mizuna just keep on giving! So here's a healthy salad using these two lovely leaves and some other veg topped off with some edamame - it's quick, nutricious and just the thing for a warm summer evening when you want something easy and light on your tummy. The recipe i

Japanese salads