Just One Cookbook Essential Japanese Recipes
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With 33 recipes, this cookbook includes the classic chawanmushi, gyudon, and tamagoyaki, as well as modern favorites like California rolls and green tea ice cream. Nami focuses on the authentic methods on how the Japanese cooks prepare these delicious meals at home. You'll learn to make chicken teriyaki just like how her grandmother and mother taught her. The book also includes essential pantry items and cooking basics like making perfect steamed rice, sushi rice, and dashi soup stock. These published recipes have been tested and highly rated by her worldwide blog readers, so you too can make them in your kitchen with ease and confidence.
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About this book
Just One Cookbook Essential Japanese Recipes collects 33 dishes drawn from the popular cooking site Just One Cookbook, run by Namiko Hirasawa Chen. The selection covers familiar home-cooked standards such as chawanmushi (a savory steamed egg custard), gyudon (beef and rice bowl), and tamagoyaki (a layered rolled omelette). It also includes dishes that have traveled well beyond Japan, like California rolls and green tea ice cream. Chen describes these as recipes she learned from her grandmother and mother, presented with attention to how Japanese home cooks actually prepare them.
Before the recipes begin, the book covers pantry essentials and foundational techniques. Readers will find instructions for steamed rice, seasoned sushi rice, and dashi, the stock made from kombu seaweed and bonito flakes that forms the base of many Japanese soups and sauces. These basics appear early because so many of the 33 recipes depend on them.
The cookbook grew out of reader requests to Chen's blog, where the recipes had already been tested and rated by an international audience. This first volume gathers the most frequently cooked selections from that site into a single printed reference, organized around the idea that reliable Japanese meals can be prepared in any home kitchen with accessible ingredients.
