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.
Nikumiso is ground meat cooked with aromatic miso based sauce. While ground pork is more commonly used for this dish, ground beef is just as good. In this recipe, in addition to regular miso paste, gochujang (Korean red chili paste) is added to make it a little bit spicy. The strong flavored meat goes really well with steamed rice, noodle, or lettuce.
If you like pork, try our original Nikumiso recipe (with ground pork).
Today’s miso soup is made with bacon, cabbage, and onion. Bacon is commonly used in western style soup such as chowder and minestrone, but it actually goes very well with Japanese miso soup, too! Dashi is almost not needed as the bacon has strong flavor, but we are adding instant dashi powder to the broth for added umami.
Mame Gohan is Steamed Rice with green peas mixed in. It is a classic spring-time rice dish when green peas are in season. In many Mame Gohan recipes, fresh green peas are often cooked with rice at the same time, but cooking green peas separately from rice, and mixing in later, keeps the peas crisper and keeps their bright color which suits a more springy look. Mame Gohan is nothing fancy, but it is eaten to cerebrate spring and to bring seasonal flavor to the table in Japan.