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About Chinese cabbage with ground meat dish Chinese cabbage with ground meat dish is a simple, easy-to-make, delicious and economical dish. Since the ingredients (Chinese cabbage / Napa cabbage, green onions, glass noodles, and minced meat) are inexpensive and easily available, I often use them. I season these with oyster …
About Japanese meat and potato stew – “Nikujaga” “Nikujaga” is Japanese for meat and potato stew. “Niku” refers to meat and “jaga” refers to potato. It is one of the typical home-cooking dishes in Japan. My mother used to make it, and I started making it as well. These days my daughter makes it, …
About Hayashi rice – quick and easy version Hayashi rice is a dish of sliced beef and onions cooked in demi-glace sauce or tomato based sauce and served with rice. It is a popular “Yoshoku” dish in Japan (Western dishes arranged in Japanese style). In some areas in Japan, people use pork slices instead …
About Japanese pasta salad Japanese pasta salad is a salad of pasta, vegetables, ham, etc. mixed with mayonnaise-based sauce. It is a very common side dish in Japan. You can often see it together with Yoshoku dishes (Western dishes arranged in Japanese style), such as Hamburg steak, pork cutlet, fried fish etc. Besides, it …
About fried root vegetable salad Fried root vegetable salad is a salad of root vegetables fried in oil and put together with leafy vegetables. Sliced and fried root vegetables (carrots, sweet potatoes, lotus roots, burdock roots, etc.) become crispy like vegetable chips. These add a different texture …
About Soba salad Soba salad is an easy and healthy salad with soba noodles. You may already know that soba is a thin Japanese noodle made from buckwheat. Soba is very common food in Japan and served either hot or cold. You can enjoy soba salad with your …
About Japanese marinated eggplant Japanese marinated eggplant is a simple side dish which goes well with rice. This is a very common and popular side dish in Japan. People often make it when eggplants are abundantly available or when it is a good value. It is …
About Japanese pumpkin pudding Simply put, Japanese pumpkin pudding is caramel custard pudding with pumpkin paste. It has a rich and smooth texture and it is very popular in Japan. When autumn comes and Halloween is near, people often make it at home. So, if you search …
What is “sauce katsu don”? “Sauce katsu don” is a rice bowl that pork cutlet is coated or sprinkled with tonkatsu sauce (spicy and slightly sweet sauce). And usually, fresh shredded cabbage is under the pork cutlet. The sauce goes well with tonkatsu (pork cutlet), cabbage …
About Japanese candied sweet potato Japanese candied sweet potato is a fried sweet potato coated with syrup. It is popular as a snack because it is easy to make at home, has high nutritional value, and is sweet and satisfying to eat. This is also known as “Daigaku-imo”, which means …