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  • Easy Grilled Corn with Miso Butter and OKAZU

    by Fumi Tsukamoto
    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!
    Posted in Easy Eats, Popular, PopularRecipes, vegan, VeganRecipes

  • Easy Smashed Cucumber Salad

    by Fumi Tsukamoto

    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. 

    Posted in Easy Eats, JapaneseFood, Keto, Popular, PopularRecipes, vegan, VeganRecipes

  • How to Cook Fluffy Brown Rice - "Bikkuri-Daki"

    by Fumi Tsukamoto
    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.
    Posted in Easy Eats, Japanese, JapaneseFood, onigiri, onigirimaking, PopularRecipes, recipe, rice, vegan, VeganRecipes

  • Miso Healthy Stew

    by Fumi Tsukamoto

    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

    Posted in PopularRecipes, vegan, VeganRecipes

  • Crunchy Curried Coconut Green Beans

    by Fumi Tsukamoto

    Crunchy Curried Coconut Green Beans by Julia Rogers:)

    Serves 3 – 4 as a side dish

    Posted in Easy Eats, Japanese, JapaneseFood, OKAZU, OKAZU MASTERS RECIPE, vegan, VeganRecipes

  • Sweet Potato Dumplings in a Miso Dashi broth

    by Fumi Tsukamoto
    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 4
    Adapted from The Vibrant Table by Anya Kassoff
    Sweet Potato Dumplings in a Miso Dashi broth
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  • Spicy OKAZU Chili Miso Oil Hummus

    by Fumi Tsukamoto

    Ingredients

    • 1 can of Garbanzo beans (chickpeas), drained
    • 1 clove garlic
    • 2 tablespoon lemon juice
    • Pinch of salt
    Posted in Easy Eats, OKAZU, OKAZU MASTERS RECIPE, vegan, VeganRecipes

  • Easy Vegan Chili Miso Roasted Eggplant Dip

    by Fumi Tsukamoto
    Vegan chili miso roasted eggplant dip? Yes please! Roasted eggplant is one of the best flavours in our opinion. The eggplant captures a smokey, roasted flavour that is so detectable and mouth-watering. It pairs unbelievably well with the chili miso, it actually surprised us when we first tried it! This recipes makes for an easy, healthy snack.
    Posted in Keto, OKAZU MASTERS RECIPE, vegan, VeganRecipes

  • Vegan OKAZU Muffin

    by Fumi Tsukamoto

    You can make savory muffins with OKAZU! They're easy and delicious, and you can make 6 of them with this recipe! 

      Posted in JapaneseFood, OKAZU, recipe, vegan, VeganRecipes

    • Dairy free / no sugar added amazake dressing

      by Fumi Tsukamoto

      This recipe is really simple and great for summer salads. The dressing gets its rich flavour from amazake which also adds a bit of natural sweetness. Bonus: it's low in fat and probiotic too!

       

      Posted in Easy Eats, Japanese, JapaneseFood, Keto, Macrobiotic, nutrition, recipe, vegan, VeganRecipes

    • Onigiri Recipe: Vegan "Tuna mayo" Onigiri

      by Fumi Tsukamoto

      This is the recipe we introduced in Toronto's Vegetarian Food Festival demo.

      ONIGIRI - makes about 15 onigiri

      Posted in Japanese, Japanese Food, JapaneseFood, onigiri, PopularRecipes, recipe, vegan, VeganRecipes

    • Chikuzen-ni: Japanese Stewed Root Vegetable

      by Fumi Tsukamoto
      This dish originates in the northern-most part of Kyushu, one of Japan's four main islands. Chikuzen-ni falls under the category of nimono, or boiled things. This is Japanese comfort food and this dish can be made on large quantities to keep in the fridge for bento-making, or as a side dish at dinner time.
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