Washoku (Japanese Home Cooking)

If you want to make authentic Japanese food, you need to prepare several kinds of seasonings, so it’s hard. In this recipe, I will introduce how to make delicious Japanese food easily using “mentsuyu” (“めんつゆ” in Japanese) which can be purchased at convenience stores in Japan. A complete set of oden ingredients is available at supermarkets (except in summer). Total Time: 45 mins Ingredients Serves 3-4: A set of oden ingredients (fish paste, hanpen, konnyaku, etc.) Half daikon (Wikipedia) 3-4 boiled eggs 100 ml mentsuyu 1200 ml water Method Make all boiled eggs. Cut the daikon into 2cm pieces. Boil 1200 mL of water in a large pot. When it

Japanese cuisine uses a variety of seasonings, including dashi (Japanese soup stock). However, it is difficult and time-consuming to make dashi every time, and it is difficult to prepare all of the numerous seasonings. It is common for Japanese households to use granulated dashi or dilute concentrated soup containing dashi. Men-tsuyu is a type of such concentrated soup. That’s why mentsuyu is useful for home cooking. What is mentsuyu? What is the difference between Tsuyu? Mentsuyu (めんつゆ or 麺つゆ) is a compound word of “men” (めん) and “tsuyu” (つゆ). “Men” means noodle and “tsuyu” means soup. So, mentsuyu is basically a concentrated soup for Japanese noodles such as soba and

If you want to make authentic Japanese food, you need to prepare several kinds of seasonings, so it’s hard. In this recipe, I will introduce how to make delicious Japanese food easily using “mentsuyu” (“めんつゆ” in Japanese) which can be purchased at convenience stores in Japan. Total Time: 35 mins Ingredients Serves 3-4: 100g beef flank (or pork) 2 or 3 potatoes, cut into chunks 1 carrot, cut into chunks 1 onion, cut into chunks 50 ml mentsuyu 250 ml water 1 tbsp vegetable oil (or olive oil) If available: 1 tbsp cooking sake 1 pack of kinusaya (The green color makes it colorful.) 1 pack of shirataki (konnyaku) noodles