japanese
ざるそば「zaru soba」
🕓 Oct 13, 2024
4 servings
Ingredients
- ~400g buckwheat soba noodles
- shredded nori
- 6 tbsp Mentsuyu
- 1 1/2 cups iced water
- green onions (optional)
- wasabi (optional)
- tsukuemono (optional)
- tempura (optional)
Instructions
- Bring a pot of water to a boil. Do not add salt
- Cook the soba according to package instructions...
冷や汁「hiyajiru」
🕓 Oct 13, 2024
Makes 2 servings
Ingredients
- 2.5 cups of water and 1 dashi packet OR homemade dashi
- 4 tbsp miso
- 2 tbsp toasted white sesame seeds
- 4 oz japanese or persian cucumbers
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 10 shiso leaves or chopped green onions
- (optional) salmon or other fish filet
- 7oz medium-firm tofu
Instructions
- Prepare...
合わせだし「awase dashi」
🕓 Oct 13, 2024
Makes ~800mL of stock
Ingredients
- 10g of kombu
- 10g of katsubonito
- 4 cups of water
- (optional) dried shiitake mushrooms
Instructions
- (optional) Cold brew kombu in 4 cups of water (~3-4 hours at room temp, or overnight in the fridge)
- Add kombu, water, and shiitake if using them to a pot and bring...
麺つゆ「mentsuyu」
🕓 Oct 13, 2024
Ingredients
- 1/4c saké
- 1/4c soy sauce
- 1/2c mirin
- 2"x2" piece of kombu
- 1/2 - 1 cup katsuobonito
Instructions
- Bring the sake to boil in a medium pot. Let the alcohol evaporate for a few seconds
- Add soy sauce, mirin, kombu, and katsubonito
- Bring to a boil and simmer on low for 5 minutes...
Ponzu Sauce
🕓 Sep 7, 2017
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup lime or lemon juice
- 1/3 cup soy sauce
- 2 tbsp rice vinegar
- 2 tbsp mirin
- 2 tbsp brown sugar
- pinch dried ground red pepper
Instructions
Combine and let sit.
Tofu steaks
🕓 Sep 7, 2017
Ingredients
- block of tofu
- 2 tbsp tomato paste
- 1 tbsp dijon mustard
- 1 tbsp soy sauce
- 1 tbsp maple syrup
- 1 tbsp water
- ground black pepper
- garlic
- 1/2 cup (or more) breadcrumbs / panko
- 2 tbps+ oil for frying
Instructions
- press tofu to get water out (~30 minutes+)
- cut tofu block into slabs of the...
Japanese Curry Powder
🕓 Apr 30, 2017
Makes 200g of curry powder. All spices should be ground.
- 80g tumeric
- 40g coriander
- 30g cumin
- 10g cardamon
- 8g chili pepper
- 14g black pepper
- 8g clove
- 4g fennel
- 2g cinnamon
- 2g nutmeg
- 2g star anise
Mix together.
Anko
🕓 Feb 14, 2016
Ingredients
- 1 cup azuki beans
- 1 1/2 cup sugar
- water
Instructions
- Rinse beans in water
- Place beans in a pot with 4-5 of water and bring to a boil
- Simmer for 1.5 - 2 hours (add more water as needed) until the beans are cooked through
- Discard water and returns beans to pot, adding sugar. Stir on...
Manju
🕓 Feb 14, 2016
Ingredients
- 2 1/2 cups all purpose flour
- 4 tsp baking powder
- 1/4 cup white sugar
- 2/3 - 3/4 cup water
- 3/4 lb anko (about a half batch from this recipe)
Instructions
- In a large bowl, mix flour & baking powder, and sugar
- Slowly pour the water into the flour, stirring constantly
- Knead the dough...