Japanese

Quick-fried eggplants with ginger dashi sauce

Eggplants are cut into slices, quick fried, doused with ginger dashi sauce and garnished with crispy bonito flakes. Great side dish or vegetarian main dish.

Cook time: 7

Servings: 4 people

Claypot salmon and mushroom rice

Rice seasoned with sukiyaki sauce, shiitake and shimeji mushrooms, and fresh salmon cubes cook together in a claypot for a delicious meal. Excluding the soaking time for the dried shiitake, total cooking time, including prep, is 20 minutes.

Cook time: 15

Servings: 2 people

Ginger pork ramen

Sweet salty meat with a little heat, broth made richer with ground toasted sesame seeds, lightly chewy shiitake bursting with umami, and a touch of tang from pickled ginger. All that in a bowl of instant ramen.

Cook time: 10

Servings: 2 people

Sweet soy sauce beef ramen

Salty sweet broth, greens, beef, noodles, kamaboko and raw egg. Think sukiyaki but simpler because this instant ramen hack has fewer ingredients. Mushrooms (shimeji and enoki, especially) are good additions.

Cook time: 10

Servings: 2 people

Cheese and pork curry harumaki

Japanese-style fried spring rolls with pork curry in sticky sauce, and strips of mozzarella for the filling. Inspired by Ippudo’s (Philippines) curry cheese harumaki.

Cook time: 30

Servings: 18 spring rolls