Crab and Cucumber Sunomono is a salad with fake crab meat and sliced cucumber marinated in a rice vinegar sauce. This salad is so easy to make with simple ingredients, in a matter of 10 minutes. It is also healthy, with no fat, delicious, and a wonderful side dish for Bento lunches and dinner.
Stir-fry meat and vegetable is the best way to use up leftover ingredients from the fridge. It doesn’t need exact measurements of ingredients and seasonings. Add whatever on hand and stir-fry together, and that will always work. For example, if you don’t have Asparagus, use broccoli or brown onion. One of the seasonings used for the dish was oyster sauce. It has touch of sweetness already, but you could add some honey or sugar if you like. Mix and match, and enjoy!
Today’s miso soup is made with cabbage and egg. Ingredients here are something you may already have in your fridge. This mildly flavored miso soup is good at any time of the day.
Karaage Chicken Wings are deep-fried wings that are seasoned with soy sauce and garlic very similar to Chicken Karaage. This crisp outside and juicy inside, delicious dish is found in different versions everywhere in Japan from chicken wing speciality stores to Izakaya food bars to supermarkets. But this is great budget friendly food that can be easily cooked at home.
Today’s miso soup is made with kale and egg. Using washed and shredded kale, it takes no time to make this simple miso soup. Sesame oil is optional but highly recommended to add aroma and depth in flavor. Instant dashi packet is used to make the Dashi broth in this recipe, but you can use any types of dashi. Please check Back to Basics: How to Make Dashi to learn more about different types of dashi.
Bavarois is a cold French dessert that is something between jelly and mousse. Bavarois is solidified by gelatin like jelly, and it’s creamy using milk and whipped heavy cream like mousse. Bavarois, although a French sweet, has been a staple homemade dessert in Japan for decades as well as a component of fancy cakes at cake shops. Bavarois is very un-Japanese but a popular basic sweet people often eat there.
Salmon Flakes is one of my favorite dishes I frequently make from Japanese Cooking 101. Here I made Salmon Onigiri, Steamed Rice mixed in with Salmon Flakes. Onigiri rice ball is great food for breakfast, lunch, and snacks. Keep your Salmon Flakes in the freezer, and you can add it frozen to hot Steamed Rice. Wrap with Nori roasted seaweed, and your easy light meal is done. Try it, you’ll love it!
Today’s miso soup is made with chicken and Renkon lotus root. By slicing Renkon very thinly, the cooking time for the recipe is shortened significantly. This miso soup is perfect for a busy night!
Shrimp Avocado Asparagus Salad is all the ingredients mixed with Wasabi Mayo dressing. This Japanese deli style salad is good as a side dish for your sandwich or Onigiri lunch. It is very nutritious, rich, and tasty, and a little spiciness from Wasabi is appetizing for a lot of people.