Japanese-style spinach and mushroom salad
A side dish of blanched spinach and sliced shiitake mushrooms tossed with ground roasted sesame seeds, dashi, Japanese soy sauce, mirin, sugar and sesame oil.
Recipes with mushroom
Pork and vegetables miso soup (tonjiru / butajiru)
If you think that authentic miso soup should have only three solid ingredients — tofu, wakame and scallions — you might be in for a surprise. There are so many other ingredients that can be added to miso soup. Tofu is not even always a must.
Narutomaki and mushroom miso soup
A blend of fresh, dried and fermented ingredients, this soup is cooked with fresh cabbage and tomatoes, dried wakame and narutomaki, and fermented soy beans in the form of miso paste.
Asian cold noodle salad
A blend of Japanese (soy sauce eggs and ramen noodles) and Vietnamese flavors (pickled carrot and radish, and mixed fish sauce dressing), this filling salad makes a complete meal.
Shiitake and cherry tomato salad
A fusion of two of my favorite Asian cuisines. Shiitake, the main ingredient, is associated with Japanese cuisine. But the dressing is pure Vietnamese.