If you ever visited Japan and know Yoshinoya you may have developped a taste for this dish. Is actually quite a simple one but delicious. If you have a craving and you are not in Japan, here the recipe. Ingredients for 2: 2 bowls of cooked japanese rice 2 eggs 200gr of Beef cut in…
Category: Japanese cuisine
My version of Chirashizushi
What to do with a nice piece of tuna at sashimi grade? I love rice bowl and here is a take on it Ingredients for 2 2 cups of japanese short grain rice 2.5 cups of water 400 gr of tuna at sashimi grade 2tbsp of Soya sauce 4 tbsp of Mirin 2 tbsp of Sake…
Goma Dare – Sesame Sauce
When we organise parties in autumn or winter we like to do a fusion of a Hot Pot and a Shabu Shabu. Different soup bases (Shezchuan, Tom Yum or Dashi) where you can dip a huge variety of vegetables, mushrooms, fish balls, fish cakes, tofu , sea food and Beef Slices. I usually as my…
Daikon Pickles
As we harvested 2 nice daikon in our garden and some nice chillies I decided to prepare them as pickles. It was a huge success and around 1 kg of pickles disappeared within 30 minutes… Ingredients: 500 gr of Daikon 3 chillies 2 tbsp rice vinegar 1 tbsp sake 1 tsp salt 4 tbsp sugar…
Soba Noodles Soup
Cold weather, so it is time for a noodle soup again, but I was in an experimenting mood. I mixed up a lot of different stuff… But first of all, here the recipe for the Soba Noodle soup Ingredients for 2: for the Kaeshi: 1/2 cup soy sauce 1/4 cup mirin 1,5 tbsp sugar for…
Japanese style Potato Salad
A nice recipe for a summer evening. Basically you can change the ingredients according your taste. Ingredients: waxy potatoes (you can choose the kind you like, just make sure they keep some firmness) carrots small cucumbers 1 small tin of corn ham (I used turkey ham) 2 hardboiled eggs Fresh Herbs 1 cup of japanese…
Gyudon with Onsen Tamago – Japanese beef on Rice and half cooked egg
For a rainy evening 😉 Ingredients for 2: 2 bowls of cooked rice (about 400 gr) 300gr of Rib-Eye thinly sliced 1 big or 2 smaller onions 1 piece of ginger ( about 3 cm) 3 garlic cloves 1 stem spring onion 1dl soup stock (dashi) 2 tbsp soy sauce 2 tbsp sake 1 tbsp…
Sojito
Nice spring evening, …. my boyfriend asks me a drink… too lazy to make a Mojito… let’s make a Sojito! Ingredients for 2: 2 long drinks glass (3 dl) ice 16 ml Soju (I still had a nice Japanese soju from Arima Onsen) mint leaves 1 can of Limonata San Pellegrino ( this is my favourite…
Simmered Satsuma sweet potatoes with beef – japanese style
Ingredients: 2 sweet potatoes (roughly 400 gr) 200 gr. ground beef 2 tablespoon sake 1 tablespoon soya sauce cooking oil (sunflower seeds) Cut the potatoes in 2 cm slices and let them rest in water for at least 10 minutes. Heat the oil in a skillet and brown the potato slices. Add the ground beef….
Miso Eggplant Stir Fry
This was a real discovery. Very easy but tasty recipe. Ingredients: 5 small eggplants 1-2 red hot chilli 50 ml soup stock 2 tablespoon sake 2 tablespoon sugar 2 tablespoon miso (i used red miso) some sesame oil First of all peel some strips of the eggplants (alternatively) and then cut in small stripes. Chop…
The epicurean kitten 