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Easy Japanese Recipes

  • If you have butter, soy sauce, and spaghetti in your pantry, you can make this mouthwatering Japanese pasta.
    Butter Shoyu Pasta
  • Shiromiso Tonjiru (Pork and White Miso Soup)
  • Nikujaga (literally "meat and potatoes") is an easy Japanese stew that comes together in under 30 minutes form just a handful of ingredients that get thrown in a pot together and simmered until flavorful and delicious.
    Quick Nikujaga (Meat and Potato Stew)
  • This Japanese beef bowl is loaded with tender beef, sweet scallions and creamy egg cooked in a sweet and savory broth.
    Tanindon (Beef & Egg Bowl)
  • Japanese beef bowl recipe or gyudon with thinly sliced beef simmered with onions in a savory broth, topped with sesame seeds, scallions and red pickled ginger over a bowl of rice.
    Yoshinoya Beef Bowl
  • Close-up of a donburi bowl bursting with glossy salmon zuke, sprinkled with sesame and scallions, nestled against vibrant green shiso leaves.
    Salmon Sashimi Donburi
  • A bowl of salmon rice (salmon takikomi gohan) topped with ikura and mitsuba.
    Japanese Salmon Rice
  • Whole Japanese pickled cucumbers glisten on a plate—crisp, refreshing, and bursting with savory umami from a simple salt brine.
    Japanese Pickled Cucumber (Shiozuke)
  • Japanese-style fried rice (yakimeshi) with ground beef, caramelized onions, and curry powder.
    Curry Fried Rice
  • This California roll in a bowl has savory crab, creamy avocado, crunchy tobiko, and crispy cucumbers on a bed of nori and sushi rice.
    California Roll Sushi Bowl
  • Soboro Don Bento is a rainbow of colors tastes and textures in a portable bento box lunch.
    Chicken Soboro Bento

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