Recipes
Grilled summer corn is one of our favourite ways to enjoy our Instant Miso Soup and OKAZU! Grilling on the stove is a great alternative in case your BBQ gets rained on. A simple and easy recipe for summer!
Crunchy, spicy, cool and sour this salad is the perfect summer side dish. It comes together in minutes and tastes great the next day. It’s the perfect pairing for grilled tofu or grilled chicken so make a batch and impress your friends at the next barbecue.
It is difficult and time consuming to cook brown rice well. Now, we are excited to share with you a fantastically simple way to cook fluffy and delicious brown rice, it's called "bikkuri-daki." The word bikkuri means surprise and daki means to boil, in Japanese. The surprise, which we will explain below, shocks the grains of rice into splitting their shells, and this results in a fluffy texture.
This recipe was a happy accident. I wanted to make a Lentil, Kale, Quinoa stew, which I made recently and loved, but I didn’t have the chopped tomatoes that I thought I had. For the past two months I have been kind of challenging myself to use up food from the pantry where there are large sacks of rye kernel, lentils, quinoa, spices, buckwheat flour, etc. This stuff is mostly left over from when we closed the Abokichi sandwich shop and café. We like the miso soup version of this recipe even better than the original tomato. I would happily make this over and over again. This is not a Japanese dish and yet the miso flavour works so well.
(Lentil, Kale, Quinoa, Black Bean, Sakekasu Miso)
Serves 6
Crunchy Curried Coconut Green Beans by Julia Rogers:)
Serves 3 – 4 as a side dish
Sweet potato dumplings! Think of the texture of gnocchi but sweeter with the presence of sweet potatoes! Our favourite is to have them swimming in an earthy miso and dashi broth with a touch of okazu for a little kick. A quick and hearty dumpling soup perfect for breezy summer evening. Enjoy:)
Serves 4Adapted from The Vibrant Table by Anya KassoffSweet Potato Dumplings in a Miso Dashi broth