Today, I’d like to share with you how to make 5 different types of rice balls (called onigiri). Onigiri is the basic Japanese food and one of the most important menus in the Japanese diet. It made from rice, seaweed and fillings. It’s usually shaped like a triangle, and wrapped in seaweed. We put the filling such as pickled plum, salted […]
Dried bonito (Katsuobushi – かつお節) is a Japanese preserved food made by boiling the meat of bonito and then drying it. Cut off the head, fins, and part of the abdomen from the fish, grate it into three or more pieces. Then, shape it into a boat shape called “fushi” […]
Today, I want to share with you “how to cook basic miso soup”. There are only two basics to making a good miso soup. The first is to choose the right dashi stock and ingredients. And the second is to add the ingredients and miso at the right time. As […]
Dashi (Japanese soup stock) is an essential part of the Japanese food culture. It is frequently used in miso soup, hot-pot dishes (Nabe 鍋), and a variety of other dishes. There are about eight major types of dashi in Japan, and the one made from bonito and kelp (Awase Dashi 合わせだし) […]
Fried tofu is called Aburaage – 油揚げ in Japanese. It’s known as tofu cut into thin slices and fried in oil, but it refers to tofu made in a different way from the normal tofu production method, and then deep fried in oil at the right temperature. The raw material […]
Soy sauce is a salty seasoning made from fermented soybeans and wheat. It can be used as a seasoning such as simmered dishes, grilled meals, soups, men-tsuyu (soup for soba and udon) and ten-tsuyu (soup for tempura), or poured directly over food. It is one of the most widely used seasonings […]
Today, I want to share with you “how to cook perfect Japanese rice in a pot”. Many Japanese families cook rice in a rice cooker. It’s super easy for the perfect Japanese rice. All you have to do is rinse the rice, fill the rice cooker with water up to […]