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Nikujaga is one of the home cooking dishes in Japan.

This is my twist on French Onion Soup and Japanese miso soup.

It's a dish that in Japan is made with very thinly sliced pork and is called Enoki no Niku Maki - Meat Wrapped Enoki.

For a lot of people, drinking no alcohol is a health choice.

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.

What goes into a Japanese Curry soup?

This is quick easy Rice Salad with Thai flavour.

Korean savoury pancake - Pajeon My latest recipe is korea's favourite pancake - the pajeon (pa = spring onion, jeon = pancake.) At its most basic, the pajeon is a mixture of egg and plain flour mixed into a batter and then fried with spring onions. You could be forgiven for thinking, 'this is a Korean okonomiyaki" but there are some differences. First, a korean pancake is much thinner and therefore, when fried, it has a crispier texture. Second, the Korean version comes with

Aubergine (Eggplant) with a spicy Soy sauce marinade Here's my latest recipe - fried aubergine (Eggplant) in a spicy soy sauce marinade. I know aubergine (or you might know it as eggplant, melanzana, brinjal, patlican or berenjena depending on where you come from!) isn't a very popular vegetable choice here in the UK but it is used a lot more in Japanese cooking and Asian cooking generally. (In Japan, aubergine is known as Nasu). Aubergine is a good source of fibre and the m

Japanese Aubergine Katsu Curry Aubergine is one of my favourite vegetables and I think there is no better way to serve it than as a katsu - that is, deep fried in panko breadcrumbs. IMHO, deep frying aubergine in panko lifts it to another level - you get the lovely soft flesh on the inside but a nice crunchy coating on the outside - yum -nothing more, nothing less. While aubergine katsu is great by itself, it also goes brilliantly with a curry sauce. I used the S&B brand Gol

Turnip & Smoked Salmon Have you ever come across the Japanese term, "sappari suru"? It means "refreshing" or "cleansing" as in when you come home after a hot day and you take a shower and then maybe enjoy a cold beer. "Sappari suru" describes this dish of salted turnip, onion and smoked salmon perfectly - it has a lovely combination of salty and smoky flavours and the crunch of raw turnip and onion. The onion is pre-soaked in water to extract any bitterness. In Japan, I'd us

Vegetable Tamagoyaki Here's a recipe that really takes me back to my childhood. I've never been an early riser but if there was one thing guaranteed to get me out of bed and ready for the schoolday, it was my mum's vegetable tamagoyaki or egg roll. Just the smell of it wafting up the stairs and into my bedroom would wake me up! These days, I'm still not an early riser but I still love my vegetable tamagoyaki (which literally means " fried egg roll"). The technique of getting

Japanese Chocolate Mousse Chocolate desserts probably wouldn't be high on your list if you were asked to name Japanese foods but the Japanese actually consume more chocolate than any other Asian country and that's steadily increasing. T he preference in Japan is not for chocolate bars but for chocolate desserts and cakes but this is also changing. Just type in "Japan chocolate" to your search engine and you'll find some very niche (and very expensive!) Japanese artisan chocol