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Plate of Japanese beef nikujaga with potatoes, carrots, and green beans on a patterned dish. The dark background enhances the colorful food.

Japanese Simmered Beef and Potatoes - Nikujaga

Nikujaga is one of the home cooking dishes in Japan.

Japanese Beef and Lamb dishes

Colorful hot pot with Chinese cabbage, shiitake mushrooms, limes, and carrot flowers in a black pot. Fresh and vibrant ingredients.

Chicken Mille Feuille Hot Pot

"Mille Feuille", in the case of a Mille Feuille Hotpot, describes the way that thin slices of pork are sandwiched between Chinese cabbage l

Japanese Winter 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 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

White rice with mint garnish and vegetable curry in a bowl. Curry box marked "Hot" in the background. Black table setting.

Golden vegetable curry

Here's my latest vegetable Japanese curry recipe. I used the hot version of "Golden" vegetable curry cubes for this dish.

Japanese Curry dishes

Orange pot with oden, featuring fish cakes, eggs, and veggies in broth. Dark background, cozy and warm atmosphere.

Oden - Japan's street food

Here's a one-pot winter warmer from Japan...Oden.

Japanese Winter Dishes

Shredded cucumber and radish daikon salad with sesame seeds on blue patterned plate with silver utensils, set against a dark background.

Daikon and Cucumber salad

Daikon and Cucumber salad My daikon and cucumber salad makes an ideal detox dish if you feel you've been over-doing the calories recently and want a few days of lighter eating. Of course, it's not only for detox - it is a light, fibre rich salad that'll be kind to your body and good for a guilty conscience! The salad is a simple combination of raw daikon (white radish / mouli) , cucumber and red onion, the latter soaked in water to sweeten its flavour - you can do the same wi

Japanese salads

Easy to make home made teriyaki sauce with soy sauce, japanese sake, mirin for barbecues and grills by kurumicooks easy to make healthy delciious Japanese Asian and Fusion cooking for your kitchen

My easy Teriyaki Sauce

I use teriyaki sauce a lot in general Japanese cooking.

Japanese Sauces and Dressings

simmered nimono dish with chicken and daikon mouli white radish and soy sauce sake mirin topped with chives by kurumicooks Japanese Asian and Fusion cooking for your kitchen

Simmered Chicken and Daikon

Simmered Chicken and Daikon Now that autumn is here, it's time to start making some dishes for cooler darker, evenings - something warming and nutricious. This week, I'm featuring simmered chicken and daikon (white radish/mouli.) As you may know, most kitchens in Japan lack an oven but gas or electric hobs are ubiquitous. So, cooking food in a pan, either by frying, deep frying or, in this case, simmering (known as "Nimono" in Japanese) are the standard techniques for prep

Japanese Chicken dishes

A white bowl of colorful fried rice with red and yellow peppers, corn, and cilantro garnish on a dark textured surface.

Japanese Curry Fried Rice

This is easy and quick to make Japanese Curry fried Rice recipe blog.

Japanese Curry dishes

Salmon and tuna sashimi poke bowl platter with sweetcorn and green beans scattered with sesame on a bed of sushi rice by kurumicooks delicious easy to make Japanese Asian and Fusion cooking for your kitchen

Salmon and Tuna Poke bowl

This is easy poke bowl recipe.

Sushi, Chirashi, Poke Bowl, Rice

Chicken Nanbanzuke

Chicken Nanbanzuke Here's a recipe from my good friend Yumiko Nikaido who lives in Tokyo. The dish is called chicken nanbanzuke . The word "nanbanzuke" translates roughly as "southern style taste." The nanbanzuke method of cooking originated on the southermost of Japan's main islands, Kyushu, where it was learned from Portugese traders several centuries ago. In Portugal, the method is known as escabeche and consists of a vinegar marinade usually combined with olive oil a