Traditional Japanese Home Cooking – Japanese Mom’s Flavor Japanese meat and potato stew, also known as Nikujaga, is a common homemade dish. Niku means meat in Japanese and Jaga is short form of Jagaimo or potato in Japanese. Since it’s a homemade dish, it’s widely known as mom’s flavor (おふくろの味 or ohukurono ají) in Japan. This dish is made of majority of chunks of potatoes with sliced meat which gives the dish the flavor. This dish is a popular yoshoku or Japanese cuisine with western influence in the 18th century and meat along with potato and various ingredients are cooked…
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Flat rice noodles have been popular in Canton and Fujian Provence in China, as well as Taiwan, Hong Kong and Southeast Asia like Vietnam, Singapore, Thailand and Malaysia thus these noodles have been called many different names such as Ban Tiao, Kui Tiao or Hor Fun. In this recipe, I will show you how to make Taiwanese hakka style flat rice noodle or Ban Tiao. The main ingredient is the long grain rice. Noodles made out of 100% rice grain or rice flour are more fragile. To make it more flexible, I prefer adding either potato or tapioca flour because…
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Learn how to make gluten free udon noodles at home with just 2 easy-to-find ingredients and water.
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Pumpkin mochi with chocolate filling is a yummy, easy, and cute Halloween dessert.