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Daifuku Mochi Recipe

Daifuku

Daifuku Mochi is rice cake with Anko, sweet red bean paste, inside.  Daifuku Mochi is one of the most traditional but very popular Japanese sweets.  It was first made almost 700 years ago, but not as a sweet dessert.  Then, sugar was rare, but Daifuku became more like today’s when sugar was more readily available to people (even though it was still very precious) 200 years ago.  Today,  you can buy Daifuku Mochi everywhere in Japan, from Japanese sweet shops to convenience stores.  People like us living outside Japan may not have such access to this delicious dessert, however, once again, we can make it at home!  Homemade Daifuku is so soft and yummy, and surprisingly easy to make if you follow the steps.  Once you taste it, you may not want store-bought ones any more anyway.

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Yaki-Imo Recipe

Japanese sweet potato

Yaki-Imo is baked Japanese sweet potatoes.  Japanese sweet potatoes, Satsuma Imo,  usually have purple skin with white flesh, but the inside turns bright yellow when it’s baked.  Japanese sweet potatoes in winter are so sweet just by themselves that there is no need to add any sweetener or anything.   Yaki-Imo is a very simple and wholesome snack for anybody at anytime.

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Shrimp Umani Recipe

Shrimp Umani


Shrimp Umani is cooked shrimp, with heads still on, in strongly seasoned broth.  It is a part of Osechi Ryori, the traditional Japanese New Year feast.  There are a lot of kinds of dishes for Osechi, but Shrimp Umani is one of the main dishes while many other Osechi dishes are vegetables. Because of its bright red color and heads and all, Shrimp Umani is the icing on the cake in Osechi Ryori.

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Tempura Soba Recipe

Shrimp Tempura Soba

Tempura Soba is hot Soba noodle soup with Tempura.  Light Soba noodles in tasty soup could be a great everyday lunch.  With Tempura, the dish is hearty and fulfilling enough to be dinner too. There are a lot of Soba restaurants to get Tempura Soba in Japan (lucky for people there).  Even if you don’t have such a restaurant in your town, don’t worry, you can easily make this tasty and authentic dish yourself at home.

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Sushi Cake Recipe

Sushi Cake Recipe


Sushi Cake (寿司ケーキ) is not typical Japanese food you find at Japanese restaurants at all.  Before anything, it is not a dessert.  Sushi Cake is Sushi Rice molded and decorated with fish and vegetables so it looks like a cake.  It is very colorful and festive, and a great dish for a celebration of some sort. It looks a little complicated, but it is quite easy to make it at home.  Actually, it’s much easier than Sushi rolls.  Besides, you may not even be able to find it at any shops or restaurants, so you may have to make it if you would like to try this dish.

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