Japanese Sweet Potato Pie (スイートポテトパイ) is a popular fall dessert when sweet potato is in season. Most Japanese bakeries carry some kinds of sweet potato pastries, bread, or desserts. This sweet potato pie is made with frozen puff pastry sheets that can be found at any supermarkets. Freshly boiled Japanese sweet potato (Satsumaimo) is mashed and mixed with butter, sugar, and milk, and sandwiched in the puff pastry sheets and baked. It’s so simple to make for breakfast or an afternoon snack.
Today’s Miso Soup is made with potato, onion, and ham. This miso soup is so easy to make with ingredients you already have in your refrigerator and pantry. Ham and onion give rich savory flavor to the soup, so you can just use a convenient instant dashi powder instead of making the Dashi from scratch. (See: Back to Basics: How to Make Dashi) You can also drop an egg if you like and make it a hearty soup for breakfast.
Sukiyaki is a popular Japanese hot pot dish that typically features thinly sliced beef, tofu, various vegetables, and sometimes noodles cooked in a sweet and savory soy-based broth. It’s a communal dish often enjoyed with family or friends, especially during colder seasons. In this receipt, we used chicken instead of beef. While Chicken Sukiyaki may not be as commonly found in traditional settings, it is still enjoyed often in some areas in Japan, and certainly at home.
Spinach and Chicken Salad with Sesame Sauce is a variation of Spinach Salad with Sesame Sauce. It’s also called Gomaae. By adding chicken, the dish becomes more nutritious and fulfilling as a side dish or even a main dish for lighter meal. This can be made ahead as a part of your meal prep, and it’ll last 4-5 days in the fridge. But we don’t guarantee there will be much left over once you start eating. Spinach and Chicken Salad with Sesame Sauce is easy to make, healthy, and of course super delicious. All the ingredients are accessible and found at your local markets. Try this at home!
Today’s Miso soup is with soy milk. Unsweetened soy milk is the base for this soup, and it gives the soup a mild creamy flavor. Miso paste and soy milk are both made from soy beans, and of course they blend in perfect harmony. Together with Abuuraage thin fried Tofu, this is a triple soy-licious dish! Because Kombu sea kelp Dashi and Shimeji mushrooms add extra depth to the flavor, there’s no need to add any animal-derived ingredients. Miso Soup with Soy Milk is packed with Umami flavor, and it’s a vegetarian and vegan friendly soup (But it’s hearty enough to satisfy meat eaters too). Hope you like it!
Fried Wontons are a popular Chinese dish made from wonton wrappers which are filled with a mixture of ingredients like ground meat (such as pork or shrimp), vegetables, and seasonings. The filling is then folded and sealed in various shapes, but often resembling triangles. Fried Wontons are known in Japan and can be found in some Japanese restaurants, but they are not as commonly associated with Japanese cuisine as they are with Chinese cuisine. In Japan, they may be referred to as “age-gyōza” (揚げ餃子) or simply “wonton” (ワンタン) and are often served as an appetizer or snack.
Rice Cooker Rice Pilaf is a rice dish that takes little time to prepare and no effort to cook. All you need to do is to cut up some vegetables and put everything in a rice cooker.
In this recipe, frozen, peeled, deveined, and tail-off shrimp was used without being defrosted. Onion and carrot are not even sauteed in a frying pan before cooked with rice. The point of this recipe is being easy! This is a perfect dish to cook on a busy day.
Today’s miso soup is made with salmon and daikon. Fresh salmon fillet is cut into bite size pieces and cooked with daikon radish in savory dashi broth and seasoned with miso paste.
Daikon is a long white Japanese radish, and it’s used in a variety of Japanese dishes such as pickles, salad, stew, and soup. As the name Daikon in Japanese literally means “large root” (大根), once you buy a whole daikon, it can be transformed into multiple dishes. Miso soup is a great way to use up a leftover piece of daikon in the fridge.
Cream Stew with Mushrooms is a stew made with chicken broth and “white sauce” with several kinds of mushrooms. Various mushrooms are found all year around at supermarkets in Japan today, but it is still the taste of autumn and winter.
Honey Sesame Chicken Wings are deep-fried wings coated with honey sesame sauce. These are very easy to make and a great appetizer for holiday and game day gatherings. Honey sesame sauce is a little bit sweet and a little bit tangy, and the smell of sesame is so appetizing. 16 chicken wings in the recipe are not enough? No problem! You can make double or triple batches easily. We’re sure these finger-licking good chicken wings will be a big hit for your family and friends. Try them soon!