It is really convenience nowadays if you just visit an Asian market, you can get more of these instant ingredient easily. All the ingredients needed and instructions of how to prepare are included. So, you’ve only got to prepare some fresh ingredients like pork or chicken, tofu and other vegetables depending on your needs. Then enjoy cooking and have you food Done in just 15 minutes or less !!

Some of my favorite instant dishes

Stir-fry Pork with Miso

Easy Step by Step Instructions

Season Limit Product:

Chicken & Vegetables in Cream —YUMm:)

Step by step instructions on how to cook..

Cook you dish in just 15 minutes or less.

So, do some shopping first and store some of your favorite Japanese ingredients then..  Enjoy the Free and Easy Instant Japanese dishes.

Enjoy it!!

Tsukemono,(pickles) is very famous healthy dish in Japanese cuisine. No Japanese meal is quite complete without a good pickle side dish.The simplest meal is nothing more than a bowl of rice and umeboshi (pickled plum), but tsukemono are also served at the most sophisticated and complex feasts. The pickling process is done in various methods depending on desired flavor and length of storage. Some are preserved for only 1-2 days to 5-10 years.

Daikon Tsukemono 大根の漬物

For those who likes Daikon(white Radish) like me, here is the free and easy Japanese pickled daikon recipes.

Pickled White Radish with Chili

Ingredients:

1 red chili
100g daikon
1 tsp salt

Preparation:

Remove the seeds from the chili and slice into very thin strips. Remove skin and thick outer layer of daikon. Cut in half and then slice thinly. Place daikon and chili in a large bowl, sprinkle with salt and toss to combine. Cover with a sheet of plastic wrap or waxed paper and place a heavy weight on top to press the vegetables down. Let stand for 2 days in refrigerator. Wash thoroughly under cold water to remove excess salt before serving.

Let’s introduce this healthy food and Japanese food low fat diet recipes of Ikabatayaki (Butter Squid in Japanese Style). This healthy food is simple but popular in Japanese cuisine. It always serve together with steam rice.

Japanese Diet Recipes : Ikabatayaki (烏賊バター焼き）

This low fat diet recipes is always on my cooking list whenever I have some squids. When I shared with my friends, they rated it as a gourmet food, healthy food and energy booster to them. YUMmm )

So, try this out today with this Japanese food low fat diet recipes below :

Gourmet food : Ikabatayaki (Butter Squid in Japanese Style)

Ingredients:

300g squid, thinly sliced
1 tbsp soy sauce
1 tbsp sake
30g butter
lemon
lettuce

Preparation:

Combine soy sauce, sake in a large bowl. Add squid into the bowl and mix until all the squid is covered with the sauce. Put aside to marinade the squid for about 10minutes. Melt butter in a pan with high heat. Remove only squid from bowl and add into the pan. Reserve marinated sauce. Stir -fry squid quickly and cook until it changes color. Remove squid from pan, cut into slices and place in a serving plate. Pour in reserved marinade sauce, garnish with lettuce and lemon. Serve with steam rice.

Enjoy the healthy food today!!

Let’s Diet with Hijiki

Hijiki is a brown sea vegetable (seaweed) with rich dietary fibre and essential minerals. It is used commonly as part of a balanced diet in Japan. This is another free and easy to prepare recipe, Simmered Hijiki. The dish is commonly cook in Japanese home and restaurants. It is a side dishes and normally served before meal. There are many other optional ingredients to add in the dish like Aburage (dried tofu), sesame seed, konnyaku etc.
Cold hijiki salad topped with a creamy white tofu dressing and a sprinkle of finely minced green onion or parsley presents an attractive contrast of colors, and is particularly appealing on a hot summer day. Get this free and easy Japanese diet recipes and enjoy it today!

Ingredients:

1 oz dried hijiki seaweed
1/4 carrot finely shredded
2 tbsps soy sauce
3 tbsps sugar
2 tbsps mirin
vegetable oil

Preparation:

Wash and soak the dried hijiki in water for 15 minutes until it soften. Drain hijiki over a colander. Heat a pan and pour in some vegetable oil. Saute hijiki and carrot until them cooked. Add sugar, mirin, soy sauce and water in the pan and stir well. Simmer the ingredients until the liquid is gone.

Japanese Diet Recipes with Hijiki

Japanese Diet Recipes with Tofu

This is another miso flavor for Japanese Diet Recipe with Tofu called Tofu and Chicken Misoni (Tofu No Tori Misoni, 豆腐のとり味噌煮). It suit for both adult and children. Especially children will like the mild with some sweeten taste of the dish.　So, if you wanna to diet, or you have a diet menu list, put it into your daily diet menu list. And enjoy!!:)

Ingredients:(4 serving)

1 block silk Tofu cut into 2cm bit size
350g chicken breast cut into bite size
80ml water
1/2 tbsp vegetable oil
4 dried shiitake mushroom
chopped green onions

(For sauce)
6 tbsps miso
3 tbsps japanese sake
3 tbsps sugar
2 tbsps oyster sauce
1 tbsp cornstarch

Preparations:
Soak the dried shiitake mushroom and cut into slices. Heat vegetable oil in a pan. Add in the chicken and cook about 3 minutes with medium heat. Pour in ingredients for sauce. Add in tofu stir slowly with low heat. Transfer to bowl and garnish with green onions for serve.

Diet? Try this healthy Agedashi Tofu!

Agedashi Tofu, is a traditional Japanese deep fried tofu serve with dashi and soy sauce. This is one of the dish that always remain in my “Must To Order List” whenever I go to Izagaya (a Japanese bistro-type restaurant serving traditional food in a relaxed atmosphere.) This is too delicious for the 1st reason and 2nd reason is because it is a healthy Japanese diet recipes with low calories and fat. In addition to this, it only takes you minutes to prepare. Another free, quick and easy recipe for diet.

See also other Tofu Recipes here : Hiyayako Recipe; Mushroom Tofu Steak Recipe.

 

Ingredients:

1 package of tofu (silken type)
3 tbsp cornstarch
2 green onions chopped
150ml dashi stock
2 tbsp soy sauce
1 tbsp grated fresh ginger
1 tbsp grated daikon
Green onion (thinly sliced or chopped)
vegetable oil

Preparations

Drain tofu and dry them well with paper towels. Add dashi stock, soy sauce into a pan and bring to boil. Place cornstarch in a bowl and dredge tofu in it, coating thoroughly. Fry tofu in hot oil for 3 to 5 minutes on each side until lightly brown and drain well.Place fried tofu in a bowl and pour sauce over it. Garnish with grated ginger and daikon before serve.

Japanese Sushi Recipe For Diet

Today Sushi （寿司、鮨）becomes popular in the world because it is a very good Japanese diet food recipes with the combination of oily fish(Rich Omega), rice, egg, vegetables and seaweed. But, when we mention sushi, automatically we will think of taking in a luxury restaurant. Do you know where can get a reasonable(in price) and delicious Sushi in Japan? Here is the tips for you, go to the food corner in Japan supermarket. If you want to have a really cheap one, you may go shop there especially in the evening, sure you will get a very cheap and delicious one.This is because in the evening, most of the food corner started to make discount. And why do they make discount? The obvious problem with eating raw fish like sashimi or sushi is that it must be really fresh to avoid risk of food poisoning. So, this is the main reason why they discount it to clear at the same day. This was a great news to me during college life in Japan. I used to go in the evening and tackle my favourite sushi set for the dinner.

Another way to get cheap sushi is to do it own-self with the sushi recipe below.:) Sure it will be the best, cheapest and yet meaningful food. Good recommendation for diet using this Japanese diet recipe. Diet via Sushi, sounds good, right?

Here, I gonna to share the most important part of sushi, sushi rice (sushi meshi). See how to cook the sushi rice below.

Ingredients:

3 cups Rice
100cc rice vinegar
3tbsp sugar
1 tsp salt
1tbsp dashi

Preparations:

Cook rice. Mix rice vinegar with sugar, salt and dashi. When the rice is done, transfer it to a large bowl and gently add the vinegar, mix a little at a time, mixing it gently into the rice with a wooden spatula with a slicing motion (i.e. don’t stir or beat it). Let it cool then covering the bowl with a clean towel for about 30 – 60 minutes.

Japanese diet recipe-Sushi Introduction

Japanese diet recipe-Sushi Introduction (2)

Japanese Recipe – Hiyashi Chuka

  If you have chance to visit Japan in summer, do remember to look for this Japanese cold noodle salad dish, Hiyashi Chuka(冷やし中華）。Hiyashi Chuka is a cold noodle salad that very popular serve in most Japan restaurant during summer time. It consist of chukamen(raw ramen) with lot of toppings such as thin fried egg strips, ham, cucumber, carrot and others. There are two main flavor of dressing, soy sauce flavor and sesame flavor. You can get the tare dressing which comes together with Hiyashi Chuka package from japanese grocery stores . With this free quick easy recipes or cold ramen salad recipe, sure it will cool you down and appetizing you in a hot summer. Another Pro for this japanese recipe is low in calories, very suitable for diet.

Ingredients:(4 serving)

For Toppings:
cooked ham cut into long thin strips
boiled chicken breasts thin strips
thin omelette’s strips
thin cucumber strips
thin carrot strips
sliced tomato
pickled red ginger (beni shoga, in little strips) 

Soy Sauce flavor dressing
1/3 cup water
3 tbsp rice wine vinegar
2 tbsp soy sauce
3 tbsp sugar
1 tsp sesame oil

Sesame flavor dressing
1/3 cup water
5 tbsp soy sauce
3 tbsp rice wine vinegar
3 tbsp sugar
3 tbsp sesame seeds
1 tsp sesame oil

Preparations:
Boil the noodles ramen, wash with cold water (cool water with ice). Drain and put in a plate. Arrange the different colors topping well to make the dish more attractive and nice to eat. Pour dressing onto it before eat.

   Japanese salad Recipes – Gobo Salad         

   This time I really don’t want to waste the remain Gobo-root that left over from Tonjiru soup. This is another free quick easy recipes which is high fiber and low in calories. It really suit you for diet recipes. Ya, Gobo Salad (Burdock salad). Still remember when I taken the dish was in a Japanese restaurant In Ibaraki-ken, Japan. I was introduced to this great salad which were really simple to prepare! After the first try, I managed to make this free quick easy recipes and shared with my friends. So, every-time I prepare this salad recipes, sure I will re-called back valuable memory that I had in Japan. Try this easy to make japanese diet recipes and sure you will love it like me then. Low calories, high fiber, prefect for diet!
 

Ingredients:

Half gobo root (burdock)
Half carrots
1 tsp vinegar
1 tbsp mayonnaise
1 tbsp sugar
1 1/2 tbsp mirin (sweet rice wine)
1 tbsp soy sauce
1 dash of shichimi
1tbsp sesame seeds

Preparations:
Peel, shred gobo and carrot into thin strips. Soak gobo in salted water, wash and drain. Parboil gobo and carrot for about 5 minutes. Drain and cool them in iced water. Add sugar, vinegar, mirin, soy sauce and mayonnaise. Sprinkle with sesame seeds and shichimi. Keep the salad in fridge and enjoy it in cool.

I think you had enjoyed the secret of “Sushi” in previous blog especially the basic manner through the video clip. But, you might wonder if one day you enter the sushi restaurant, how to order from the menu which full of japanese sushi terms.

Below are Sushi refesher short list with sushi raw fish terms. Enjoy Sushi-ing!!

Sushi 寿司 - Sweetened, pickled rice plus fish – the fish is sashimi.
Sashimi 刺身 - Raw fish fillets without rice.

Aji é°º	- Spanish mackerel or sometimes called horse mackerel.
Akagai 赤貝	- Pepitona clam, which is red in color
Ama Ebi 甘海老	- Sweet shrimp
Anago穴子	- Salt water or conger eel. It is precooked (boiled)
Aoyagi 青柳	- Red clam, or sometimes known as round clam
Awabi 鮑	- Abalone
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Hamachiはまち	- Young yellowtail tuna, or amberjack
Hamaguri 蛤	- Clam
Hirame 平目	- Fluke or flounder
Hokkigai ほっき貝	- Surf clam, which is thorn-shaped piece with red colouring on one side
Hotategai 帆立	- Scallops
Ika 烏賊-	- Squid – The body of the Ika is eaten raw, tentacles are usually toasted
Ikura いくら	- Salmon roe
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Kajiki かじき	- Swordfish
Kaki かき	- Oysters
Kamabokoかまぼこ	- Imitation crab meat. Generally used in California rolls
Kani 蟹	- Real crab meat. It is always served cooked
Kazunoko 数の子	- Herring roe, sometimes served raw (kazunoko konbu)
Kobashiri こばしり	- Small scallops
Kohada こはã	- Japanese shad, gizzard shad, or young punctatus
Kujira 鯨	- Whale
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Maguro 鮪	- Tuna, red meat, which is not to be confused with Toro white meat
Mekajiki めかじき	- Swordfish
Mirugai みる貝	- Surf, geoduck, or horseneck clam
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Ohyo オヒョウ	- Halibut
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Saba 鯖	- Mackerel, which is almost always served lightly salted and marinated
Sake é®­	- Salmon, but pronounced differently
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Tairagai 平ら貝	- Razor-shell clam
Tako ç« é­š	- Cooked octopus
Tamago 卵	- Sweet egg custard wrapped in dried seaweed
Tobiko とび子	- Flying-fish roe, which is red and crunchy, often served with quail egg yolk
Torigai トリ貝	- Japanese cockle, which is a black and white shell fish
Toro トロ	- Fatty tuna. O-Toro is considered to be the finest
Unagi é°»	- Freshwater eel that is grilled
Uni 海胆	- Sea urchin, usually quite expensive
Extras:
Futo-Maki 太巻き	- Large, oversized rolls
Gari がり	- Pickled ginger root that comes with sushi
Miso 味噌	- Soy bean paste
Maki-mono 巻物	- Vinegared rice and fish (or other ingredients) rolled in nori seaweed
Maki-sushi巻き寿司	- Rice and seaweed rolls with fish and/or vegetables.
Sake é®­ -	- Rice wine that can be served both hot and cold
Tempura 天婦羅	- Seafood or vegetables dipped in batter and deep fried
Wasabi 山葵 -	- Japanese horseradish. This is the small lump of very spicy stuff.

“Sushi” – Short List Of Raw Fish Terms

Japanese Diet Recipe – Sushi Meshi