We use ground daikon in many ways: with grilled fish, grilled egg, soba, nabe, etc. It makes for a light dish, also has lots of vitamin C, so it’s good for your health! This recipe contains a little bacon, and as you know, everything goes better with bacon, so enjoy!

Yield: 2 servings
Time: 20 minutes

Spices

• 2 tbps soy sauce

Preparation

1. Boil pasta until al dente (save 1/2 cup hot water for the daikon)
2. Mix 1/2 cup hot water with ground daikon and soy sauce
3. Heat oil in a frying pan and cook garlic until fragrant, then add bacon and grill well
4. Add eggplant and mushrooms, cook for 2 minutes
5. Add mixed daikon sauce; turn off the heat and stir
6. Mix with boiled pasta and serve

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When I am catching a cold, I usually eat hot miso soup with lots of ginger and green onion. How about you? Also, okayu and zosui (Japanese rice soup) with chicken and egg are comforting food to eat when you are sick.

Thousands of tuna, their silver bellies bloated with fat, swim frantically around in netted areas of a small bay, stuffing themselves until they grow twice as heavy as in the wild.
Is this sushi’s future? Tuna raised like chickens or cows?
As the world’s love affair with raw fish depletes wild tuna populations, long-running efforts to breed the deep-sea fish from egg to adulthood may finally be bearing fruit. Though the challenges are daunting, the potential profits are huge. (AP)
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Zosui is Japanese rice soup made from pre-cooked rice. When we make Nabe (japanese hot pot), we make zosui after with the hot pot soup. It good to eat when you are feel sick or have a hangover and is also easy on the waistline.

Yield: 2 servings
Time: 20 minutes

• 2 bowls of steamed rice
• 2 beaten eggs
• chopped green onion (handful)
• chopped seaweed (optional)

Spices

• 8g Hondashi
• 1 tsp soy sauce
• dash salt

1. Boil 3 cups water and steamed rice in a sauce pan for 15 min on low
2. Add hondashi and dash of salt
3. Drizzle egg over mixture in rice, then add soy sauce and green onion
4. Serve in a bowl and add seaweed on top (if you like)

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A 37-year-old woman diagnosed with premature menopause had a baby boy earlier this month from an egg grown through the administration of a hormonal agent, her doctors said Saturday.St. Marianna University School of Medicine in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, stirred the formation of ovarian follicles by administering the hormonal agent to pick up eggs from it, and grew them using culture fluid for external fertilization. (Japan Times)
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Kaki is the Japanese word for oyster. It is also called “umi no miruku (milk from the ocean)”, named as such because of the high nutritional value of oysters. They are in season from fall to winter, so let’s get fresh oysters and make this recipe!

Yield: 18 oysters 
Time: 30 minutes

Ingredients

• 18 oysters
• 1 egg (beaten)
• 1 cup panko (or breadcrumbs)
• 1/4 cup flour
• 1/2 lemon

Spices

• 3 tbsp mayonnaise or tartar sauce
• 1 tsp olive oil

Preparation

1. Blanch oysters in boiling water for 8 seconds, and remove
2. Cover oyster with flour, dredge in egg, and cover with panko.
3. Heat oil to 375 degrees and fry oysters until golden brown (2-3 mins)
4. Remove and serve with lemon and mayonnaise or tartar sauce
5. For tartar sauce, use store bought sauce or use the recipe from Ebi-fry.

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As you probably know by now, “butaniku” is the Japanese word for pork. “Buta” means pig and “niku” is our word for meat. The kanji for meat is 肉. A wildly popular comic and cartoon series in the early 80’s called “Kinnikuman” featured a superhero with the same name who had a 肉 character tattooed on his head (because he was very muscular). Look for the link below and enjoy this dish while you’re watching Japanese anime!

Yield: 4 servings
Time: 30 minutes

Ingredients

• 1/2 lb sliced pork
• 5 chopped shiso
• 5 plums, de-seeded, crushed
• 1 tsp sesame seeds
• 1 1/2 cup panko
• 1 egg (beaten)

Spices

• 1 tsp Japanese sake
• 1 tsp soy sauce
• 1/4 cup flour

Preparation

1. Mix spices (shiso, plums, soy sauce, sake, sesame seeds)
2. Put about 1/2 tsp of the mixture in the middle of a length of pork and roll.
3. Sprinkle flour on each pork roll, dredge in egg, and cover in Panko.
4. Heat oil to 375 degrees and fry pork rolls until golden brown (about 2 mins on each side)
5. Serve with salt, soy sauce, or mayonnaise.
6. Enjoy with Kinnikuman! http://bit.ly/2XBENI

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☆Teriyaki Hamburgers☆
Ingredients:
☆ 400 g ground beef
☆ 200 g ground pork
☆ 1 1/2 tbsp bread crumbs
☆ 1/2 cup milk
☆ 1 1/3 cup onion, finely chopped
☆ 1 egg
☆ 1/2 tsp salt
☆ a little of pepper
☆ 1/2 butter
☆ 4-5 tbsp teriyaki sauce
Direction:
1. Heat 1tbsp vegetable oil in a frying pan, and fry the onion wel over medium [...]

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Japanese love fried rice! We call it Yakimeshi, yaki means grill, and meshi means rice. We make it at home but ramen restaurants serve the best fried rice! We have many kinds of fried rice, beef, spicy, Japanese pickle, etc. I made a basic one this time.

Ingredients

• 2 balls of rice (1/2 lb)
• 1/4 medium onion (chopped)
• 1/8 cup green onion (chopped)
• 0.2 lb ham (minced)
• 2 eggs (beaten)

1. Mix eggs with steamed rice and add salt
2. Heat oil in frying pan then grill onions, ham, and green onions for two minutes over high heat
3. Add rice, and cook for 3 minutes over medium heat and add sake and chicken soup for 2 minutes
4. Sprinkle salt and pepper, add soy sauce, and cook for 1 minute on low

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