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 […]
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) […]
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 […]