SHOKUTAKU 食卓 

Ingredients: ground chicken or turkey 1 pound green onion or regular onion, chopped fine dry shiitake mushroom soaked in water, lightly squeezed and chopped ginger (optional), as much as you like miso paste (optional), adjust to your taste mirin, sake, salt, pepper, adjust to your taste potato starch or flour to stick the ingredients, 1-2 tbsp 1 egg (optional) poppy seeds (or sesame as alternative, optional) , a handful Directions: Mix all the ingredients except poppy seeds w

sweetened black bean (typically in the New Year food) Ingredients: dry black beans 200g sugar 100 - 200g (Japanese 1/2 cup - 1 cup, according to your taste) salt 1/3 tbsp soy sauce 50 cc (Japanese 1/4 cup) baking soda 2/3 tbsp Directions: Wash the beans lightly and place in a colander Boil 8 cups of water in a deep pot, add sugar, salt, soy sauce and baking soda, beans. Stop the heat and leave it for 4-5 hours in the pot. Boil on high heat. Keep removing the foams, add 1/2

Kabu (turnip) that resembles kiku (chrysanthemum flower) Ingredients: kabu = japanese turnip (small, round) yuzu citrus for flavor (optional) vinegar, sugar (or mirin), salt Directions: Cut off the top and bottom of the turnip, and peel the skin Cut downward in thin, vertical slices spaced 2 mm apart without cutting all the way through to the bottom. It is helpful to place the turnip between a pair of chopsticks and use them as a guide to prevent the knife from cutting all

Ribbed scrolled egg for New Year Ingredients: Egg 3 Hanpen (small, 50g) 1 sheet Sugar 1 tbsp Mirin 1 tbsp Water 1 tbsp Dashi powder 1 pinch Salt a pinch Use baking pan or frying pan. Adjust the sweetness to your taste. My recipe is much less sweet than the typical dashimaki. Directions; Blend eggs with small pieces of hanpen, other ingredients until smooth. (I used the electric mixer.) Pour the mixture into a parchment-lined pan (18cm x 18 cm square or alternative) and bake

Candied dried anchovies typically seen in Osechi cooking Ingredients: Iriko (dried anchovies, no salt) sesame walnuts or walnuts (optional) soy sauce, sugar or mirin or honey, sake Directions: Toast iriko on the frying pan with low heat until crispy Toast nuts (sesame, walnuts, almond, etc) on the frying pan Empty the frying pan, and heat up the mixture of soysauce, sake, sugar or mirin or honey with low heat until it thickens Put 1 & 2 into the mixture and stir to blend well

Ingredients dry soy bean　200g rice straw 2,3 strips yogurt maker Directions Soak the dry soy beans overnight with plenty of water Darin...

Tea Porridge Ingredients: 2 Japanese cups (400cc) of short grain rice A bag (about 50 grams) of dry roasted tea (Hoji cha or Habu cha,...

Ingredients: Cooked rice about 300g (after cooking one Japanese rice cup= 180cc of raw rice) Soys sauce 2 tbsp Mirin 1 tsp Dashi powder...

Ingredients: Chirimen jako (cried young sardines) 100g Sansho seeds (Japanese peppercorn) 2 tbsp - used the cooked one sold in a...

Fried salmon marinated in vinegar sauce Ingredients: Salmon 2lbs Onion 1 Vegetables; Paprika, green pepper, carrot, etc. (optional) Hot...

Ingredients: Katsuobushi (bonito flakes) 100g Iriko (dry sardine) optional, Shio kombu some Dry shiitake (soaked and chopped) some...

Mixed rice Put all the ingredients into the rice cooker and cook with usual amount of water. If you use sweet rice (mochi rice) 50 -...

Dried strips of Yuugao (melon family) Serve as is or use in sushi, mix with rice or Kombu roll Product of Tochigi prefecture Ingredients:...

Persimmon with mashed tofu Mixed with Yogoshi Miso (with black sesame) ↓ Yogoshi Miso - Local food from Toyama prefecture, Miso with...

Variation with satoimo Ingredients; Satoimo Umeboshi (remove seeds and make into paste with a fork) or ume paste in a tube Dashi powder...

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

With Kuzu powder Ingredients Kuzu powder 50g Sesame paste 1-2 tbsp Salt some Directions In a pot, put all the ingredients and add 400 ml...

Chirashi, Oshi zushi, Cake sushi Chirashi zushi Iwakuni zushi Sushi Rice 3 cups of rice (using rice cooker cup) Vinegar 4 tbsp Sugar 3...

Ingredients Soybean Any combinabion of other ingredients (Carrot, Hijiki seaweed, Gobo, Konnyaku, Kombu seaweed, Shiitake mushroom,...

Ingredients Salmon (cooked) Cucumber Vinegar (rice vinegar preferred) Sugar Salt Rice Sesame Directions 1. Cook rice (a little harder),...