Japanese cuisine is mainly divided into two categories: Japanese Japanese food and Japanese Western food. Japanese food mainly includes sushi, sashimi and other foods invented by the Japanese; Japanese ramen from China, Japanese curry from India, Japanese omelette rice from France, etc. are called Japanese Western food. , indicating that although it was not invented in Japan, it has been transformed into a type of Japanese cuisine.

When it comes to Japanese food, everyone always feels that it is so mysterious and certainly not easy to make. So when everyone eats Japanese food, they go to restaurants that specialize in Japanese food. In fact, you can make simple Japanese food at home. Here I will introduce to you how to make some common Japanese dishes at home.

1. Japanese sushi

Sushi rolls are traditional Japanese dishes with many types, beautiful shapes and low calories. There are mainly lucky bag sushi, tofu skin sushi, vegetarian sushi, salmon sushi, caviar sushi and so on.

The method is to use a rolling curtain to wrap the rice balls wrapped in seaweed into a roll shape and cut them into pieces. Making sushi rolls at home can be more casual. The rice should be cooked hard, and a little salad dressing or tomato sauce can be squeezed on the ingredients when rolling. You can also roll the rice back, wrap the seaweed inside, and sprinkle some red or green caviar on the surface, which is very beautiful.

The creative space of sushi is very large. You don’t have to stick to a few of them. You can choose the ingredients you like or the ingredients you have at home and use them as you like.

2. Sukiyaki

Sukiyaki is a kind of dish, a kind of beef hot pot. Japanese people usually eat it with radish juice and white rice. You may have seen it often in the TV series "The First Half of My Life". So what do you do at home? The preparation of this hot pot is extremely simple. It is actually a lazy hot pot. It tastes very happy and warm in winter.

The first step is to prepare kelp stock: add kelp slices to water and boil.

The second step is to put oil in the pot, add beef slices and fry over low heat, sprinkle some sugar, add delicious fresh soy sauce and a little cooking wine, and scoop out the beef.

In the third step, continue to add cabbage, green onions, fried tofu, carrots, enoki mushrooms, shiitake mushrooms and other ingredients you like in the oil pan, then add beef, add the stock made in the first step, and cover Let the lid burn for 5 minutes.

How about it? It’s very simple.

3. Tempura

In Japanese dishes, dishes fried in batter are collectively called tempura. The most critical aspect of tempura cooking is the preparation of batter. When making tempura batter, a very thin batter is usually prepared, with egg batter being the most common. This is also a major feature of tempura. The paste is generally made of flour, eggs, and water. The flour is low-gluten and the gluten content is less than 10%. The proportion between them is 15% eggs, 35% flour, and 50% water. .

When frying, don't fry too much at one time to avoid lowering the oil temperature. You should also take out the fried residue in time. If there are ingredients and meat dishes, fry the vegetarian dishes first and then the meat dishes. After frying, place on kitchen paper to absorb excess oil.

4. Sashimi

Sashimi refers to things like sashimi, which refers to fish dishes in which fresh fish and shellfish are cut into slices and eaten directly with seasonings. The most commonly used materials for sashimi are tuna, salmon, snapper, flounder, bonito, etc.; there are also freshwater fish such as carp and crucian carp, as well as some special seafood, such as octopus, squid, cuttlefish, etc. But sashimi is not limited to fish, there are also clams (including snail meat, oyster meat and fresh scallops), shrimp (a red sweet shrimp) and crab, sea cucumbers and sea urchins, and chicken (tender chicken breasts). meat) etc.

We can buy common ingredients such as salmon and sea cucumber fresh in supermarkets. What should we do after buying them? It's very simple. Cut the seafood into thin strips about 5cm long and 1cm thick. After cutting, place it on a plate. You can also cut some shredded radish and put the seafood on top. That's it. Because the ingredients are very fresh, you can just dip them in mustard and soy sauce when eating. You can also refer to some beautiful platters on the Internet to make your own. Once arranged, you will really feel like you are having a feast.

5. Tamagoyaki

You can also call it egg roll, which is super easy to cook. First you need a rectangular pot for making Tamagoyaki. Add a few eggs, add salt, sugar, and a little milk and stir evenly. Put oil in the pot, pour in the egg liquid, roll it up, and then pour in the egg liquid until the egg liquid is used up.

6. Gyudon rice

The beef rice bowl you make yourself is no worse than Yoshinoya’s. Put oil in the pot, add onions and beef rolls and stir-fry, add cooking wine, sugar, or a little rice wine, add soy sauce, add some boiling water, and reduce the soup over low heat. Finally, pour the beef over the white rice. Isn't it very simple?

In addition, Japanese food includes: Japanese ramen, eel rice, soba noodles, miso soup, pan-fried saury, Japanese teriyaki chicken leg rice, caviar rice, etc. There are countless You can make it at home. Let’s try it.