SHOKUTAKU 食卓 

a sweet condiment often used in Japanese cooking Ingredients: Sweet Rice 360 cc (2 rice cups) Dry rice koji 200g Shochu (35％)　600cc salt Direction: Cook sweet rice in a rice cooker Spread cooked rice in a tray and pour shochu Add dry koji and mix well Add salt (at least 2% of the total weight of the mixture to be legal in Japan) Put the mixture into a clean glass jar and seal During the first week, open the jar and stir the mixture once a day. Seal the jar and leave in a ro

All purpose hot sauce pupular in northern Japan Ingredients: 1 cup Hot peppers chopped 1 cup Dry Koji (Japanese fermentation starter) 1...

Mix and shake well, consume within a week Basic White sesame 5 tbsp Sugar 2 tbsp Vinegar 1 tbsp Oil 3 tbsp (or less) Mayonnaise 3 tbsp...

Soup (hot) and Dipping (cold) Sobachoko, Natto Tororo Soba Soup (for warm Kake soba, 1 serving ) Mix all; Water 300cc Mirin 1 tbsp Soy...

As a side dish, or as soup or pasta sauce Ingredients Hakusai (Chinese cabbage) Shiitake (fresh or dry) Carrot Onion Ham (or any cold...

Mushrooms in light white sauce Ingredients Mushroom (mushroom, enoki, shiitake, maitake, shimeji, etc... ) Onion Garlic White wine Olive...

Put on top of anything and bake On zucchini and grill Ingredients Miso & Mayonnaise same amount Katsuobushi (bonito flakes) some...

All-purpose green onion sauce to consume a large amount of green onions Ingredients Green onion Oil (sesame oil or any other) Salt and...

Blended herb (usually basil) with garlic, olive oil, pine nuts, lemon juice. Great with bread, pasta or on grilled chicken. Basil, Shiso,...

Taste of May. Picking at Ms. G's garden every year. Ingredients Kinome leaves 1 cup (240cc) squeezed Miso 7 tbsp Mirin 4 tbsp Sake ...