Tag: pork

June 20, 2019

MISO KATSU (CUTLET WITH ORIGINAL SWEET MISO SAUCE) RECIPE

MISO KATSU is deep-fried pork cutlet (Ton-katsu) with sweet miso sauce, and it’s famous as a local food in Chukyo area (mainly Aichi prefecture) in Japan. I think many of you’ve already know about Japanese style of cutlet (Ton-katsu). Generally,…

Main Dish

June 16, 2019

BEST STIR-FRIED UDON NOODLES (YAKI-UDON) RECIPE

Eating udon noodles with mentsuyu (noodle soup base) is the most popular way in Japan. The flavor of bonito soup stock and sweet soy sauce matches perfectly with udon noodles. On the other hand, stir-fried udon noodles makes you enjoy…

Main Dish

June 8, 2019

CHEESY EGGPLANT WITH MISO PORK RECIPE

Don’t you think that cheese enhances a taste of any dish? Melting cheese makes me so happy, and it goes so well with various type of food such as meat, vegetables, baked food, and so on… But now I started…

Appetizer

June 7, 2019

PORK & EGGPLANT CURRY STIR-FRY RECIPE

“Curry and rice” is one of the best popular food in Japan, and I am no exception to this.Whenever I cook curry with curry roux at home, we could eat it for every meal (even next day too)! For stir-fry…

Main Dish

May 31, 2019

TOFU STEAK WITH MISO SAUCE RECIPE

How do you like to cook tofu…? I like to eat it as “Hiya-yakko” : chilled tofu topped with minced green onion and soy sauce.It’s the best healthy appetizer for me and matches so well with alcohols too. I suppose…

Appetizer

May 30, 2019

PORK & CABBAGE STIR-FRY WITH GINGER MISO SAUCE RECIPE

Pork and cabbage is one of the best combination for miso flavored stir-fry. Ginger pork (Shogayaki) is also my favorite dish, so I will mix those two styles today! Sweet and salty miso sauce with ginger flavor was extremely delicious,…

Main Dish

May 21, 2019

PORK ROLLS WITH GARLIC MISO RECIPE

Maybe “pork roll” means a processed pork product commonly consumed for breakfast in western countries. In Japan, it often means grilled meat roll that is made up of thinly sliced pork. Sometimes the pork is rolled up with vegetables, cheese,…

Main Dish

May 13, 2019

GRILLED PORK WITH MISO SESAME SAUCE RECIPE

Did you know miso paste and sesame are the perfect combination? I think many of you have already known that sesame as topping leads beautiful presentation of dishes.But it’s not just about the looking but the taste of sesame definitely…

Main Dish

April 3, 2019

What Is Hatcho Miso and How Is It Used?

What Is Hatcho Miso? Hatcho miso (八丁味噌) is representative “soybean miso”. “Soybean miso” means using soybean koji instead of rice koji or barley koji in the cooking process.Basically soy bean miso is made from only soybean, salt, and water.(Please check…

JAPANESE INGREDIENTS/Miso Soup

March 28, 2019

AMAZAKE miso soup recipe

Have you tasted Amazake? Amazake is a fermented rice drink made out of malted rice and rice. You need to warm up the mixture of rice gruel and malted rice, then ferment them to make Amazake. (There are several different…

Miso Soup