Loco Moco is a Hawaiian rice bowl dish with Hamburger Steak. Loco Moco hamburger is similar to Japanese Hamburger or Salisbury steak. The steak is served over Steamed Rice, with a thick gravy sauce and a fried egg placed on top. This Hawaiian soul food has got just the right taste and many people have…
Tamago Sando (卵サンド) is the Japanese take on the classic egg salad sandwich. Finely chopped hard-boiled eggs are mixed with tangy Japanese mayonnaise and sandwiched between slices of fluffy white Shokupan bread.
Udon Carbonara is an Udon noodle dish which is mixed in a scrumptiously eggy and cheesy Carbonara sauce. Spaghetti Carbonara is one of the most popular Italian pasta dishes in Japan, and people there just love the taste of this pasta with savory creamy sauce. This Carbonara sauce may not be authentic Italian, but it…
Melon Pan Toast tastes just like Melon Pan, but it’s so much easier to make it with only 5 simple ingredients. Melon Pan (メロンパン) is a popular Japanese sweet bread, and it’s found everywhere in Japan from bakeries to convenience stores. Soft white Japanese milk bread is covered with a thin cookie crust on top,…
Teriyaki Tofu Bowl is pan-fried Tofu in Teriyaki sauce over rice. This is such an easy dish to make for busy weekday nights. All the ingredients are found locally in most places even outside Japan, and the steps are also very simple. It’s flavored with sweet and salty Teriyaki sauce that everyone loves, so it…
Tomorokoshi Gohan or Corn Rice is seasoned rice with corn kernels. Corn’s sweetness goes well with slightly salty steamed rice. It’s best using fresh corn, so this is the dish to make when corn is in season. Tomorokoshi Gohan is great as is for Bento but also good for Onigiri. Make extra for dinner, and…
Cold Soba buckwheat noodles are the best food in summer when it’s too hot and you have no appetite. They are cold, delicious, and nutritious. In this recipe, we add green vegetables, so it’s even healthier! Fried Tofu croutons are crunchy, packed with protein, and a good alternative to bready croutons. This also uses all…
Curry Yakisoba is stir-fried noodles flavored with curry powder. The spicy curry aroma stimulates the appetite at any moment. Here, beef is used as protein in the dish, but it can be easily replaced with chicken or pork. And that’s the same for the vegetables. Cabbage, broccoli, and onions work very well too. Curry Yakisoba…
Japanese style garlic fried rice is often served at Teppanyaki restaurants as a side dish for steaks or grilled seafood. Minced fresh garlic is slowly cooked in olive oil and butter in a frying pan, and the cooked steamed rice is fried in the aromatic oil. Similar to garlic noodles or garlic bread, the flavor…
Omu Soba (Omusoba, オムそば) is Yakisoba noodles wrapped with a thin egg crepe, looking like an omelette. It’s found at a lot of Okonomiyaki restaurants in Japan that also serve Yakisoba noodles. At a restaurant, skilled Okonomiyaki cooks make noodles and thin round eggs, wrap noodles with the egg on the hot griddles using two…