Asian Spicy Recipes - Japanese Recipes

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Rice is the cornerstone of a Japanese meal and the Japanese word for boiled rice, gohan, is the same as the word for 'meal'. The variety used is either short or medium grain, and it is always steamed to perfection by absorption. Convenient for this are the electric rice cookers which always do a reliable job. While the earth yields rice and other food crops, the turbulent cross currents of warm and cold waters are rich in marine minerals which cannot settle to the sea floor, providing an excellent feeding ground and resulting in some of the best tasting and most nutritious sea produce in the world. Besides the many seaweeds rich in iron and iodine, the ocean literally teems with life and the harvest of the deep, added to the bounty of rivers, yield some one thousand varieties of fish and shellfish, the basis of a healthy and nutrient-rich diet. From land and sea come the key flavour ingredients of Japanese cooking: the basic stock, dashi, made from bonito and seaweed, and sake, the sacred drink brewed from rice. The passing seasons are celebrated in every aspect and this is reflected in a Japanese meal, from ingredients to the choice of serving dish and garnish. A creative presentation will evoke a season or a scene as deftly as a three-line haiku or a few well-chosen brush strokes. Maple leaves, pine needles, and bamboo leaves are just some of the garnishes used to achieve the desired effect. Simple rules of presentation such as round-shaped foods served in dishes with straight sides and square foods in rounded dishes reflect an unerring sense of balance.
Japan Recipes
Asparagus with Mustard Dressing Bai To Konjak No Nimono (Simmered Whelk and Konjak) Beef Misoyaki Bourekakia (Meat triangles) Buta Zen Mai (Pork with Fern Shoots) Butano Shogayaki Butternut Squash Soup Chicken Meat Ball Chicken Tatsuta (Fried Chicken) Chicken Teriyaki Cinnamon Fried Chicken Coca Cola Spare Ribs Crabmeat with Wasabi Mayonnaise Ebi-No-Saka-Mushi (Sake Steamed Shrimp) Fillet of Beef Teriyaki Fried Mackerel Fried Rice Grilled Miso Chicken Gyoza Fried Dumplings Harumaki (Spring Roll or Egg Roll) Hiyashi Chukka Soba Ichiban Dashi (Basic Soup Stock) Japanese Curry Rice Japanese Fried Rice Kaki-Tama-Jiru (Egg Drop Soup) Kani Amazu (Sweet and Sour Crab) Karage (Fried Chicken) Katsudon Kazunoko (Herring Roe) Kimpira Gobo (Spicy Braised Gobo) Korokke (Potato Croquette) Marinated Fried Chicken Miso-shiru (Spicy Miso Soup) Mushrooms and Prawn Stir-Fry Namasu Niku Jyaga (Beef and Potato Stew) Ohagi Oyako-don (Chicken and Egg Rice Bowl) Potato Carrot Broccoli Miso Soup Roasted Peanut Sauce Sake No Miso Yaki (Broiled Salmon) Sashimi Satsuma Jiru (Miso-Flavored Pork & Vegetable) Seafood Tempura Shabu Shabu with Sesame Dipping Sauce Shimeji Itame (Spicy Glazed Mushrooms) Shrimp Tempura Spicy Bean Sprout Salad Spicy Tuna Roll Steamed Chicken with Sake Suimono (Clear Soup) Sukiyaki Sunamono Sunomono Sushi Tekka-maki (Tuna Roll) Tempura Chicken Tempura Dipping Sauce Tempura Shrimp Teriyaki Chicken Teriyaki Spareribs Tonkatsu (Pork Cutlet) Tori no kara-age (Deep-fried Chicken Nuggets) Tori No Mizutaki (Chicken Stew) Vegetable Tempura Wasabi Crusted Chicken Wasabi Slaw Yaki Soba (Fried Noodles) Yaki-Udon (Stir-fried Noodles) Yakibuta (Roast Pork) Yakiniku (Broiled Beef) Yari-Soba (Fried Noodles)