How to Make Natto
This recipe introduce 2 simple methods of how to make natto at home. By following these methods, you can create your own delicious and nutritious batch of natto using a dash of natto starter or some leftover store-bought natto.
Dango Tanghulu
Tanghulu is a popular Chinese street food made by skewering fresh fruits and dipping them in a hot sugar syrup. Dango is a traditional Japanese rice ball made from glutinous rice flour. When we combine these two treats, we will get “dango tanghulu”: chewy puppy-shape dangos coated with a sweet and crunchy tanghulu coating.
Japanese Rice Cakes – Homemade Rice Cakes from Scratch
This recipe teaches us how to easily make Korean and Japanese rice cakes with 3 simple ingredients: white rice, water, and butter. Homemade rice cakes are so chewy and delicious. They are perfect for making tteokbokki (Korean spicy rice cakes), tteokguk (Korean rice cake soup), yaki mochi (grilled Japanese rice cake), and zenzai (red bean soup with mochi).
Persimmon Mochi
Persimmon mochi has a soft, sticky, and chewy mochi skin with a sweet jelly-like persimmon filling. Decorated with a real persimmon leaf, this mochi looks just like a real persimmon! Soft and juicy hachiya persimmon is the best choice for making persimmon mochi. When fully ripened, hachiya persimmons turn soft, mushy, and sweet like honey jelly. You can dig out its flesh with a spoon, and use it directly as the persimmon mochi’s filling.
Japanese Milk Bread (Hokkaido Milk Bread ) Recipe
This recipe teaches us how to make the most authentic, softest, and fluffiest Japanese Milk Bread at home. The pre-fermented dough (biga) in this recipe can bring an extra rich flavor and fluffy texture to your Japanese milk bread. And the pre-fermented method saves you much time on the second day, so that you will be able to make this warm and soft bread after you get home from work or school.
Raindrop Cake – Strawberry & Cherry blossom filling
Pop the balloon and enjoy this purely beautiful raindrop cake filled with cherry blossoms and strawberries. You can easily make this vegan low-calorie traditional Japanese dessert at home with agar agar powder or gelatin powder. Pairing with brown sugar syrup and roasted soybean powder, this jiggly ball is going to melt in your mouth like a refreshing and sweet raindrop.
Kohakutou (Japanese crystal candy)
This kohakutou recipe teaches you how to make popular Japanese crystal candies with agar agar powder, water, and sugar. You can also substitute water with juice, tea, coffee, or alcohol to make your homemade kohahutou candies colorful and flavorful.
Chestnut Cream Cake Roll (Mont Blanc Cake)
Chestnut Cream Cake Roll (or Mont Blanc cake roll) is a pastry topped with spaghetti-like chestnut paste cream. Different from French Mont Blanc cake who usually has a hard meringue or biscuit bottom, Japanese-style chestnut cream cake always has a soft and fluffy chiffon cake bottom.
Japanese Roll Cake – Chiffon Sheet Cake
Roll up a sheet of soft and fluffy chiffon cake with some whipped vanilla cream filling. This is how you easily make this super basic but extra delicious vanilla roll cake. Starting from this basic roll cake, you will be able to make so many different styles and flavors of cakes by adding different types of decorations. Check out my chestnut cream cake recipe for a hint!
Pan Roasted Chestnuts (with Butter and Sugar)
Roasted chestnuts are one of the signature flavors of autumn in so many countries around the world. This recipe teaches us how to simply roast chestnuts with butter and sugar using a frying pan. An easy trick to avoid dry and hard chestnuts is roasting them in water!