Japanese Recipes Index

I like to eat and cook Japanese food!  In college I did a home-stay with a Japanese family in Tokyo and learned a lot about Japanese cooking from my host mother, whose nightly dinners felt like eating in a restaurant!

• Main dishes
• Teriyaki Sauce, Teriyaki Salmon
• Beef Sukiyaki/Yakiniku
• Yakitori - chicken and negi skewers
• Oyakodon (chicken and egg rice bowl)
• Okonomiyaki 
• Chicken slices
• Tempura
• Soba and dipping sauce
• Omu-Raisu (omlette rice) 
• Tamagoyaki
• Hiyashi Chuuka, hot weather Chinese-inspired noodles with veggies and egg
• Soba Noodles, served cold, with dipping sauce
• Sushi/Nori
• Sushi rice (sushi rice shortcuts here and the traditional version here)
• Inari sushi (traditional version or shortcut version)
• Vegetarian Maki Sushi
• Temaki, like Smoked Salmon teriyaki maki
• Fusion Beef Avocado Maki
• Chirashi-sushi (sushi rice bowl)
• Side Dishes, salads and dressings
• Gyoza (meat or vegan gyoza)
• Nimono, Simmered vegetables in dashi
• Daikon Salad 
• Nasu no dengaku (eggplant with dark miso sauce)
• Pickled lotus root 
• Goma dare (sesame sauce)
• Horenso goma (Blanched Spinach with sesame dressing)
• Miso Dressing (which I love on a salad of cooked kabocha and daikon) 
• Salad with Arame sea vegetables
• Soups
• Miso Soup and Secrets of Miso soup
• Leftover Salmon Rice Soup
• Nabe with Shungiku
• American-Japanese fusion
• Nori veggie wraps (the Japanese version of California vegetable sandwich)

• Desserts
• Satsumaimo cake steamed sweet potato cake
• Daigakuimo (candied sweet potato)
• Kuromame (sweet black soybeans) 
• Mochi
• Yatsuhashi the cinnamon sugar flat mochi treat from Kyoto
• Roll-cake
• Earl Grey Pudding (Purin)
• Purin (Japanese version of Mexican Flan)
• Dorayaki