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Side Dishes

Liven up your dinner or bento box with these delicious, easy side dishes. Prepared in minutes, their umami-rich flavors will leave a lasting impression on diners. Find a new favorite, or look up a cherished memory. From traditional to modern, you’ll find something here worth serving over and over.

  • Chinese chives and eggs on a brown plate and beige napkin with a wooden spoon and glass full of shochu on the rocks.
    Niratama (ニラ玉)
  • These easy Hungarian Nokedli dumplings are made with just 4 ingredients and come together in less than 10 minutes.
    Nokedli (Hungarian Dumplings)
  • Plated sunomono salad with crab and sesame seeds glows under soft light, inviting with its glossy textures and vivid greens.
    Cucumber Sunomono Salad with Crab
  • Vegan-friendly poke made from tender carrots, sweet onions, limu and inamona.
    Vegan Poke Bowl
  • Asari Miso Soup
  • These blue mashed potatoes use a delicious natural coloring you can get anywhere. Perfect for July 4th.
    Blue Mashed Potatoes
  • Kinpira Gobo is an easy Japanese side dish made by stir-frying shredded root vegetables with a sweet and savory sauce.
    Japanese Kinpira Gobo Recipe (Video)
  • Glistening Japanese short-grain rice in a blue flower bowl.
    How to Cook Japanese Short-Grain Rice
  • These quick pickled carrots and daikon are a traditional part of a traditional Japanese New Year's meal, but they make for a great side salad or condiment for your favorite sandwich.
    Pickled Carrots and Daikon (Kohaku Namasu)
  • Takenoko Gohan (Bamboo Rice)
  • Kimchi Risotto
  • Juicy sweet tomatoes stir-fried with creamy scrambled eggs over a bowl of rice.
    Chinese Tomato & Egg Stir-Fry
  • Masoor Dal
  • This super creamy Champ, loaded with sweet tender scallions would make for a great side with anything, but I've added some nutty gorgonzola which takes these mashed potatoes to another level.
    Champ
  • With blanched spinach tossed with a nutty Japanese sesame sauce, this easy side dish comes together from just 4 ingredients.
    Spinach Goma Ae
  • Patatas Bravas with Allioli
  • These sweet black soybeans or kuromame are piano black and melt-in-your-mouth tender.
    Kuromame (Japanese Black Soybeans)
  • Datemaki is a delicious Japanese rolled omelet traditionally eaten for New Year as part of Osechi Ryori. This easy Datemaki recipe comes together from just a handful of ingredients.
    Datemaki
  • Close-up of matsutake risotto with a seared mushroom cap slices and microgreens, warm fall backdrop.
    Matsutake Mushroom Risotto
  • These meatless gyoza (Japanese dumplings) are just as flavorful as the original with a crisp pan-fried bottom and steamed noodly top.
    Vegetable Gyoza (Vegan)
  • Yellow miso soup recipe with tofu, carrots, and spinach.
    How to Make Miso Soup
  • Tall mound of Japanese cabbage salad with tomatoes and cucumber slices.
    Japanese Shredded Cabbage Salad
  • Baked Beans
  • Cross section of Dashimaki Tamago, a traditional Japanese rolled omelette glistening with savory dashi stock.
    Dashimaki Tamago
  • Mounded high on a scalloped plate, the parsley and bulgur salad reveals pops of ruby tomato, pale cucumber, and flecks of onion against the vivid green herbs.
    Tabbouleh (Parsley & Bulgar Salad)
  • Teppanyaki (a.k.a. hibachi) style Japanese Garlic Fried Rice, with a double dose of garlic including crispy garlic chips and garlic butter.
    Japanese Garlic Rice
  • Creamy sweet cubes of kabocha squash simmered with atsuage tofu and dashi garnished with mitsuba.
    Japanese Simmered Kabocha
  • Bowl mounded high with shiny marinated Japanese mushrooms garnished with scallions.
    Marinated Mushrooms
  • Mound of Japanese potato salad with ham, cucumbers, carrots and onions.
    Japanese Potato Salad
  • Green Bean and Mushroom Doria topped with fried onions and parsley.
    Mushroom Doria (Mushroom Rice Casserole)
  • If you have butter, soy sauce, and spaghetti in your pantry, you can make this mouthwatering Japanese pasta.
    Butter Shoyu Pasta
  • Japanese potato salad with boil eggs, ham, cucumbers, carrots, and onions.
    Potato and Egg Salad
  • Spicy and savory Japanese cucumber tsukemono pickled with beer and wasabi.
    Beer & Wasabi Pickled Cucumbers
  • The soft creamy yolk of a hot spring egg is like cold honey.
    Onsen Tamago (Hot Spring Egg)
  • Gari, or sushi ginger, is an easy, refreshing pickled condiment made with young ginger, vinegar, sugar, and salt.
    Pickled Sushi Ginger (Gari)
  • Throw together a delicious Japanese fried rice that comes together in minutes from a handful of ingredients with this Yakimeshi recipe.
    Yakimeshi (Japanese Fried Rice)
  • A savory drizzle of soy sauce pouring onto melting butter and hot rice, creating the ultimate bowl of comforting Japanese butter rice.
    Soy Sauce Butter Rice
  • Homemade seaweed salad with a nutritious blend of Japanese seaweed and crunchy cucumbers, just like at sushi restaurants.
    Seaweed Salad (Wakame Salad)
  • A plate of kani salad made with crab sticks, cucumber, and carrots in a creamy lemon dressing.
    Kani Salad
  • Easy onigiri rice ball recipe stuffed with a delicious mix of canned tuna, mayonnaise and soy sauce.
    Tuna Mayo Onigiri
  • A wider shot of traditional Japanese Hiyayakko or cold tofu salad. In the background are two alternative versions - kimchi natto and Caprese Salad.
    Hiyayakko (Cold Tofu Salad)
  • Vegan Gyoza (Tofu)

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