Blog Categories

Shisomiso and Natto Onigirazu

Shisomiso and Natto 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 boost. The great thing about onigirazu

Japanese light meals

Japanese pork meat balls Niku Dango served in a sweet soy sauce with chopped spring onion on a Japanese fired clay dish by kurumicooks delicious easy to make healthy Japanese Asian and Fusion food and cooking for your kitchen.

Japanese meat balls - Niku Dango

Japanese meat balls - Niku Dango Here's a recipe which sounds better in Japanese, "niku dango", than in English - plain old meat balls! But Japanese meat balls - Niku Dango are actually far from plain - they're made of minced pork cooked in a sweet soy sauce. They'll grace any dinner table or you can just pop them in a lunch box for a nourishing midday meal. Alternatively, you can also put these on skewers & cook them over the barbecue. I've truly never come across anyone w

Japanese Pork dishes

Orange pot with simmering oden: eggs, carrot slices, fish cakes, and a tied seaweed in broth. Dark background enhances warmth.

Oden - Japan's street food

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

Japanese Winter Dishes

Menchi Katsu

Menchi katsu is another example of a Western style dish assimilated into Japanese food culture at the turn of the 20th century.

Katsu dishes

Japanese Tonjiru

Ton Jiru.

Japanese Pork dishes

Sukiyaki table top cooking with wagyi beef, shiitak mushroom, firm cotton tofu, leeks, onions and cabbage by kurumicooks delicious easy to make healthy Japanese Asian and Fusion food for your kitchen

Sukiyaki - Kanto style

This is Kanto style Sukiyaki.

Japanese Winter Dishes

A plate of fried rice with peas, carrots, and chicken, garnished with a metal spoon. The dish is vibrant and appears appetizing.

Japanese style Chahan with Chicken

Japanese style Chahan with Chicken which is fried rice.

Chinese Style dishes

Chicken katsudon deep fried in panko breadcrumbs drizzled with Bulldog brown sauce and sprinkled with white toasted sesame seeds garnished with lemon wedges and served on a bed of lettuce in a katsudon bowl by Yamamoto Kansai by kurumicooks Japanese Asian and Fusion cooking for your kitchen

Chicken sauce Katsudon

"Sauce Katsudon" which means that your katsu will be delivered in a bowl perched on a blanket of shredded cabbage laid over a thick bed of rice.

Katsu dishes

Japanese yakitori grilled chicken with leeks in a soy based homemade yakitori sauce presented on a handmade glazed plate by kurumicooks delicious easy to make healthy Japanese, Asian and Fusion cooking for your kitchen

Classic Yakitori

How to make Yakitori at home.

Japanese Chicken dishes

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 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

Tendon tempura donburi with prawns red pepper broccoli mushroom and parsnip fried in a tempura flour batter presented in a black laquered Yamamoto Kansai serving bowl by kurumicooks healthy easy to make delicious Japanese Asian and Fusion cooking for your kitchen

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

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