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"The addictive Gyoza (dumpling) sauce is usually sold premade in bottles at the Asian food store. We love it so much, and go through it so quickly, that I had to find a recipe to make at home. This is a very basic recipe, so feel free to adjust amounts to your taste, or add ingredients like garlic, ginger, wasabi & green onions. If the sauce has too..."

Ingredients: hot sauce, rice wine vinegar...

"This is my own version of Japanese-Style Tofu. I changed it quite a bit and enjoyed so much that I must post it, at least for myself to remember! Suppers don't get much easier (or healthier) than this :)"

Ingredients: cornstarch, firm tofu...

"From Mark Bittman's cookbook, "How to Cook Everything Vegetarian". With its somewhat savory taste, the resulting soup is elegant in both simplicity and speed; and the list that follows shows the ways to embellish and intensify the flavor. Some are garnishes to serve over the noodles; others are cooked in the broth to give it more character...."

Ingredients: nori, black mustard seeds...

"Kelp and/or kombu make great soup stock! Their abundant minerals and natural "MSG" impart richness to soup usually associated with meat. Serve as an appetizer or use as stock. You can find kelp and kombu at your local health food store. Adapted from "Sea Vegetable Celebration" by Shep Erhart and Leslie Cerier."

Ingredients: dried mushrooms, dried shiitake mushrooms...

"This recipe is from a local Japanese restaurant."

Ingredients: green onions, lime juice...

"Diabetic and fat-free recipe. I got this from a Chinese diabetic book about foods that do not raise blood sugar level. Double the recipe as needed, but keep the ration 1 to 1 to 1/2 of miso to vinegar to sugar, or sweetner. Use as a dressing for vegetables or as a dipping sauce"

Ingredients: miso, sugar, vinegar...

"Ginger is an important Asian food, prized for its many culinary, medicinal and health benefits. That fact, along with the love of anything pickled, naturally led to beni shoga or the red pickled ginger slivers served on many Japanese dishes from okonomiyaki to yaki soba. Not to be confused with gari, the pink pickled ginger served alongside sushi,..."

Ingredients: brine, fresh gingerroot...

"Chirashi is a bowl of sushi rice mixed or topped with ingredients. It is often eaten at home while nigiri sushi is mostly eaten at restaurants."

Ingredients: burdock root, fresh lotus root...

"From Alton Brown, Good Eats, Episode: Et Tu Mame. Delicious! I have tweaked it just a little bit. :) You can double the chile sauce to increase the heat if you wish. I used Thai sweet chili sauce but use the red chili paste or sambal oleck if you like."

Ingredients: fresh ground black pepper, extra virgin olive oil...

"A traditional Japanese condiment courtesy of Underwood Family Farms."

Ingredients: red jalapeno chiles, fresh ginger...

"Yum! The original recipe used all wild rice. I have subbed some brown rice, or a blend of rices. Also the original recipe calls for barley miso, but you can use whatever miso you have on hand(I use either red or white), whichever one you use will give a different and yummy flavor. Enjoy! Adapted from a recipe from Whole Foods."

Ingredients: ginger, green onions, miso...

"Dengaku is a popular dish at the tea houses that line the lovely Philosophers Walk in Kyoto. The dish takes its curious name from the Japanese word for “stilt.” The stilts in question are two slender bamboo skewers that are used to hold the piece of tofu over the coals for grilling. The recipe is from Steven Raichlen's TV show, "BBQ U"...."

Ingredients: white miso, mayonnaise, mirin...

"Shabu shabu is the Japanese version of the fondue. Lemon gives a nice kick to chili sauce and makes a perfect condiment for the meat."

Ingredients: lemon juice, lemon zest...

"This recipe includes the dressing and salad preparation. Yeild: 4-5 Sunomono salads."

Ingredients: vermicelli, romaine lettuce leaves...