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Spinach Salad with Sesame Sauce Recipe (Gomaae)

spinach with sesame sauce

This is a spinach salad with a flavorful sesame sauce (hourensou no goma-ae) that is very similar to our Green Beans with Sesame Sauce, and is a great little side dish.  It is super quick to make, but very nutritious and tasty.

It’s best to make your own ground sesame using Suribachi (mortar) and Surikogi (pestle), but you can also use store-bought ground sesame.  Freshly ground sesame has a stronger aroma.

If you’d like more detailed instructions, please watch our Green Beans with Sesame Sauce video as a reference.

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Miso Grilled Chicken Recipe

miso grilled chicken

You bought Miso paste, but don’t know what to do with it other than Miso Soup?  Here is an  idea for a meat dish using Miso.  Marinading with Miso makes chicken tender and flavorful.  And as usual, it is very easy to make!  Just start earlier in the day or the night before to have enough time to marinade the chicken.

If you’d like more detailed instructions, please watch our Miso Grilled Salmon video.  It has almost the same steps as this chicken recipe except the grilling time.

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Avocado Salad with Wasabi Dressing Recipe

avocado salad with wasabi dressing

If you want one more little dish for your dinner, this may be it!  A quick and easy side dish salad, but with a little kick from Wasabi.

Avocado and a Wasabi mayo sauce make an unusual match.  If you are not sure about the hotness, go easy on the amount of Wasabi paste.  If you like the zing, go for more.

We have another salad using Japanese mayonnaise dressing, Potato Salad.  If you like this Avocado Salad, come and take a look our Potao Salad video, too.

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Tebasaki Karaage Recipe

Tebasaki Karaage

Tebasaki is chicken wings in Japanese.  Tebasaki Karaage is a very popular appetizer at restaurants and bars, just like Karaage.  Crispy and juicy Tebasaki is best eaten when it is freshly made.

It’s easy to make Tebasaki Karaage at home, but it can be a little tricky to cut the drumettes (the parts that look like little drumsticks) from whole wings.  You have to find a joint of the bones and cut through.  Cut off the wing tips (the floppy ends) if you want.  Seasoning is very similar to our Karaage recipe.  Watch our Karaage video if you’d like to know more detailed instructions.

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Katsu Curry and Rice Recipe

Katsu Curry Recipe

Katsu Curry is Curry and Rice with Tonkatsu (deep fried pork).  It is a very popular and staple dish on the menu at curry restaurants in Japan.  I don’t know anybody who doesn’t like it.  I’d love to eat Katsu Curry as often as I could, but also try very hard not to because it’s such a “hearty” dish.  It’s super yummy, but just don’t eat this everyday 🙂

It’s quite simple to make Katsu Curry, but there are 2 recipes you have to prepare;  Curry and Rice and Tonkatsu (deep fried pork).  Luckily, we have both recipes covered on our site.  Just watch our videos, and you’ll have a great meal for yourself and your family and friends.

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Cucumber and Wakame Seaweed Sunomono Recipe

cucumber and wakame sunomono

Cucumber and Wakame Seaweed Sunomono is a very refreshing side dish.  The combination of cucumber and wakame is one of the most popular types of Sunomono.  You too can make this simple and tasty dish at home.

If you have a mandolin or vegetable slicer, it’s a breeze to make this.  But even if not, you can still slice cucumbers the old way, with a knife.  Just need a little practice!

If you need more detailed instructions, please watch our Sunomono (Cucumber Salad) video.

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