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25 Everyday Japanese Recipes

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Popular Japanese Side Dishes

Agedashi Tofu (Japanese deep fried tofu) in a thick sauce topped with chopped spring onions, grated daikon and shichimi pepper

Agedashi Tofu (Japanese Deep Fried Tofu)

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Dashimaki Tamago (Japanese Rolled Omelette with Dashi)

Complete Japanese pickled cucumber with ginger and chili sprinkled with sesame seeds in a small white serving dish

Cucumber Tsukemono with Ginger (Japanese Pickled Cucumber)

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Addictive Izakaya Style Salted Cabbage (Yamitsuki Shio Cabbage)

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Japanese wakame salad made with wakame seaweed, mini tomatoes, cucumber and silken tofu served in a mottled gray bowl with dark brown edge

Japanese Wakame Seaweed Salad

Japanese Style Avocado Egg Salad with Wasabi Mayo

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Sunomono Salad with Cucumber and Octopus

Japanese izakaya style potato salad in a light blue bowl on a wooden board

Addictive Japanese Potato Salad (Potesara)

shiodare cabbage in a black bowl on wooden surface

Shiodare Cabbage (Addictive Cabbage Salad with Salt Sauce)

mugen cabbage in a white bowl on ashy wood surface with furikake in a bowl on a blue cloth in the background

Mugen “Infinite” Cabbage Salad with Crunchy Furikake

close up of two Japanese cabbage rolls (Roll Kyabetsu) on a white plate in a homemade sauce and sprinkled with parsley

Japanese Style Cabbage Rolls (Roru Kyabetsu)

Japanese Napa Cabbage Pickles (Hakusai No Asazuke) on a small white plate with brown brushstroke design next to yuzu citrus and a bowl of miso soup

Japanese Pickled Napa Cabbage (Hakusai no Asazuke)

Japanese simmered soy beans (gomoku mame)

Japanese Simmered Soybeans and Vegetables (Gomoku-Mame)

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Chicken Tsukune (Japanese Glazed Meatballs)

Japanese Sesame Spinach Salad (Horenso Goma Ae) in a white bowl in a hand with wooden chopsticks

Goma-ae Salad (Japanese Spinach Salad with Sesame Sauce)

Kinpira gobo made with carrots and burdock root topped with red chili in a white bowl on a wooden background surrounded by dry red chilis

Kinpira Gobo (Japanese Braised Burdock Root)

shio okra in a white bowl with chili and shio kombu on an ashy wooden background

Yamitsuki Shio Okra (Addictive Salted Okra)

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Simmered Kiriboshi Daikon Radish

Kinpira gobo made with carrots and burdock root topped with red chili in a white bowl on a wooden background surrounded by dry red chilis

Kinpira Gobo (Japanese Braised Burdock Root)

Japanese Simmered Pumpkin Side

Japanese Simmered Pumpkin (Kabocha no Nimono)

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