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Japan – Kabocha and Ayu Tempura With Tentsuyu Sauce

October 18, 2021/0 Comments/in Asian Cuisine, Japanese Cuisine/by worldcuisine

Tempura is a fried dish in which any seafood and vegetables are dipped into the batter of eggs and flour to deep fry it. This dish has many roots from the world while having the name, origin, and cooking techniques. In 1671, the cookbook called “料理献立抄” was written and it has the recipe still used in making the tempura. Tokyo bay was made a great change in Japanese cuisine and still we have the dishes of “Tokyo style (Edo style)”. There are many variations of the dish outside Japan.

Japan – Korokke

May 16, 2021/0 Comments/in Asian Cuisine, Japanese Cuisine/by worldcuisine

This dish is a Japanese deep-fried version of YOSHOKU. This is a type of CROQUETTE, which is actually a deep-fried or shallow-fried kind of cutlets. This dish is made as a snack, like a dinner and then it is usually cooked at the festivals like Japanese new year. Different kinds of korokke is cooked and sold in Japan.

Japan – Hot Pot

March 2, 2021/0 Comments/in Asian Cuisine, Japanese Cuisine/by worldcuisine

This dish is a traditional dinner usually cooked sometimes or even on special occasions to have a huge bowl of soup/ broth with many foodstuffs dipped into it. This is also known as Soup Pot, Fire pot or Soup food.

Japan – Kakigori (Japanese Shaved Ice Dessert)

June 13, 2021/0 Comments/in Asian Cuisine, Japanese Cuisine/by worldcuisine

Kakigori is a dessert that is made up of Crushed and shaved ice with having flavors and sweet syrups. Japanese Shaved ice dessert is served with sweet syrups, some fruit chunks, condensed milk, evaporated milk. In summer, this dessert is sold every where in Japan like, dessert shops, tea café, tea stalls, ice cream stalls, etc. This dish is originated in Heian Period in which ice from the mountains bring and topped with flavors.

Japan – Mixed Vegetable Tsukemono

October 10, 2021/0 Comments/in Asian Cuisine, Japanese Cuisine/by worldcuisine

This is Japanese vegetable pickle use to add to different Japanese dishes and consume in many snacks like sandwiches, salads, etc. This is the thing that can make any other dish to the next level. This is a very common dish of KAISEKI, a traditional multi-course Japanese dinner. This is more like the Name means ”PICKLED THINGS”. In 1906, a book of tea written by Okakura Kakuzō also known as Okakura Tenshin was a Japanese scholar and he introduced this dish, Tsukemono in the great tea ceremony, Kaiseki. There are many varieties of tsukemono prepared in Japanese cuisine and also there are many different dishes cooked by using this individual dish, tsukemono.

Japan – Nikujaga (Japanese Beef Potatoes)

October 10, 2021/0 Comments/in Asian Cuisine, Japanese Cuisine/by worldcuisine

Nikujaga is actually a stew dish and, it has two basic elements, beef, and potatoes. This dish is said to be the fusion dish of western and Japanese styles together. Nikujaga is most popular especially in Winters when served with hot soups and rice. In the 19th century, this dish was invented by a chef of the Imperial Japanese Navy. Chef Norman Van Aken used the word FUSION CUISINE. This was the first time used a word for cuisine. Japanese cuisine has a number of dishes that are formed by the impact of other cuisines especially CHINESE CUISINE and WESTERN CUISINE.

Japan – Age-Gyoza (揚げ餃子)

November 9, 2021/0 Comments/in Asian Cuisine, Japanese Cuisine/by worldcuisine

Jiaozi is the Chinese form of dumplings that has the Japanese variation of Jiaozi is GYOZA. This is originated as traditional Chinese medicine. There are different names for the Gyoza of different countries and for different ingredients, the cooking method also.

Japan – Champon Noodles

August 8, 2021/0 Comments/in Asian Cuisine, Japanese Cuisine/by worldcuisine

This dish is noodles soup having many vegetables and fish, prawns, chicken with eggs and some seasonings. This dish is inspired by Chinese cuisine and is served world widely in many Japanese restaurants. This dish is originated from NAGASAKI, Japan. This was adopted by the Japanese from the Meiji Era. The name of the dish came up by Hookein word, CHIAH-PNG, which means TO EAT MEAT. In Japan, different areas and cities have different flavored-based soup noodles.

Japan – Chazuki

April 4, 2021/0 Comments/in Asian Cuisine, Japanese Cuisine/by worldcuisine

This is a very unique dish of Japanese cuisine in which we can mix rice with prepared green tea and pour over the rice. Name of the dish which is used in Japanese cuisine is ”CHAZUKE”. From this word ”CHA” means ”TEA” and ”ZUKE” means ”SUBMERGE”.

Japan – Natto

June 20, 2021/0 Comments/in Asian Cuisine, Japanese Cuisine/by worldcuisine

Natto is a kind of snack or breakfast that is made up of fermented soybean. This is famous because of its texture and appearance. As a healthy breakfast it is eaten with a bowl of rice. The main thing to watch is the procedure of fermenting these beans so we can consume with different varieties of rice, toast and mixing with vegetables, etc.

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