15 delicious Japanese home-cooked dishes to make at home｜Japanese home cooking recipe collection🥢

tofu

🥗Healthier: tempeh

💰Cheaper: cottage cheese

Tempeh offers a protein-rich alternative while cottage cheese is budget-friendly.

mirin

🥗Healthier: rice vinegar + sugar

💰Cheaper: white wine + sugar

Rice vinegar + sugar mimics mirin's sweetness with fewer calories.

dashi

🥗Healthier: vegetable broth

💰Cheaper: chicken broth

Vegetable broth is a lighter option, while chicken broth is often less expensive.

soy sauce

🥗Healthier: tamari

💰Cheaper: coconut aminos

Tamari is gluten-free, while coconut aminos provides a sweeter flavor.

Make okonomiyaki dough by mixing 200g thin flour, 200cc water, 2 eggs, and a little bit of soup stock.

Cut cabbage into small pieces and mix with the okonomiyaki dough.

Cut leftover rice cake into small cubes and mix with the dough.

Spread the mixture thinly in a frying pan and bake.

Place thinly sliced pork on top of the spread dough and cook until the back is burnt, then flip it over until the meat is crispy.

Spread okonomiyaki sauce and mayonnaise on top, then garnish with dried bonito.

Prepare miso soup by heating bonito and kelp soup stock with water in the microwave.

Add radish and onion to the soup stock, cooking until tender, then add green onions and miso.

Prepare fried food by mixing 2 tablespoons soy sauce, 1 tablespoon sake, ginger, and grated garlic with meat and refrigerate for 20 minutes.

Fry the meat at 160-170 degrees Celsius for 3 minutes, then let it rest for 4 minutes before frying again at 180 degrees Celsius for 1 minute.

Prepare tempura by cutting eggplant and sweet potatoes, soaking them in water, and coating them in flour.

Make tempura batter with 130g tempura powder, 1 egg, and 200ml water, then fry the vegetables and shrimp at 170-175 degrees Celsius.

Prepare pork cutlet by coating with alcohol and oil, then frying in plenty of oil until golden brown.

Make sauce for grilled lotus root with 3 tablespoons sake, 2 tablespoons soy sauce, 1 tablespoon mirin, and 1 tablespoon sugar, mixing with ground meat and filling between lotus root slices before frying.

Make Kimpira from remaining lotus roots with soy sauce, sake, mirin, sugar, sesame oil, and sesame.

Prepare salmon avocado bowl by cutting avocado and salmon into bite-size pieces, mixing with 1 tablespoon sesame oil and 1 tablespoon soy sauce, and serving on freshly made rice.

Make croquettes by boiling chopped potatoes, stirring with onions and minced meat, forming into balls, coating in flour, eggs, and breadcrumbs, and frying at 180 degrees Celsius.

Make Mapo tofu by stir-frying meat, ginger, and garlic, adding soy sauce, oyster sauce, sugar, and water, then adding tofu and thickening with starch.

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