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Provides an invaluable guide to sushi etiquettte and customs and includes a unique fish identification guide, which details over 20 kinds of fish and shellfish and how to prepare them.
Japanese food is healthy, delicious and universally enjoyed, but despite the popularity of sushi and noodle bars around the world, so few of us cook this delightful cuisine at home. This impeccable guide from Japanese cook Kimiko Barber demystifies the cuisine and makes it accessible to the home cook. Kimiko covers everything you need to know about Japanese food, including its long and intriguing culinary history, and gives clear and concise explanations of Japanese ingredients, cooking terms and techniques, - as well as providing more than 200 recipes. These exceptional dishes are a combination of traditional classics that have been updated to suit today's busy home cooks, and new, specially created, easy-to-make meals - laid out in the more familiar Western-style format of starters, mains and desserts rather than the traditional Japanese one of cooking methods. With Kimiko's expert guidance and ideas for clever improvisations, your confidence will grow and soon you'll be creating Japanese dishes with all the flair and style of a true itamae.
Here is a mix of traditional and easy modern-day recipes for creating Japanese food. Kimiko Barber presents 100 essential ingredients used in Japanese cooking. Every ingredient has its own separate entry that covers history, appearance, manufacture, buying, storing, culinary use and health benefits.
Japanese food is healthy, delicious and universally enjoyed but despite the popularity of sushi and noodle bars worldwide too few of us cook this delightful cuisine at home. In Japanese in 7 (the latest addition to the in 7 series), Kimiko Barber uses just 7 ingredients or fewer to make deliciously fragrant dishes that you can effortlessly pull together any night of the week. Chapters are divided into: *Fresh - vibrant and healthy meals such as Yellowtail Sashimi, Hand-rolled Sushi and Japanese-style Duck Orange. *Fast - Meals like Dashi-rolled Omelette and Tuna Hotpot that can be on the table quickly after a long day at work. *Light - delicious recipes such as Japanese Onion Soup and Savoury Egg Tofu. *Vegan - nourishing plant-based recipes like Grilled Aubergine in Miso Soup and Mushroom Rice. *Comfort - bowls of warming Moon Udon, Chicken and Miso Porridge or Sea Bream Rice to enjoy on a cold winter's evening. *Sweet - creative Japanese desserts such as Matcha Jelly, Kyoto Tiramisu and Black Sesame Ice Cream. *Basics - Dashi and flavoursome dressings you can use to quickly create authentic Japanese dishes.
YO! Sushi has transformed the concept of Japanese food and has created a revolutionary and unique dining experience. Conveyor belts filled with a rainbow of coloured plates carrying mouth-watering food prepared by chefs cooking in front of the diner have made sushi fun, funky and totally accessible.
There is only one way to lose weight - eat less. This cookbook does not involve any calorie counting, refer to a pre-calculated index, exclude essential foods or worse still, limit the selections of food allowed. There is one simple rule: delicious and perfectly balanced Japanese-inspired meals are to be eaten with chopsticks, which naturally makes you take smaller mouthfuls and instantly reduces the amount of food you eat.
Until recently, Japanese cooking has remained in the shadows, but the remarkable and long-awaited upsurge in the popularity of sushi and noodle bars and, subsequently, the growth in the availability of ingredients, have put the country firmly on the culinary map. In The Japanese Kitchen Kimiko Barber invites you on a personal tour of her country's exquisite cuisine. She presents 100 essential ingredients and 200 recipes from all over Japan. Every ingredient, from the familiar to the unknown, has its own separate entry giving in-depth background information on history, appearance, taste, manufacture, buying, storing, culinary use and health benefits. Recipes range from the classic, such as Miso Soup with Tofu or Chilled Soba Noodles with Wasabi and Soy Sauce: to the more contemporary Marinated Tiger Prawns in Sweet Ginger Vinegar, or delicious Seared Beef Tataki.
'Fresh and authentic food with big, bold flavours that make you want to come back for more.' Henry Dimbleby, founder of Leon Sebby Holmes's adventurous approach has made his London pop-ups a huge success. In Cook Thai, he features the dishes that have seen crowds queuing round the block, perfectly adapted to suit the home cook. For Sebby, Thai food is not a special occasion cuisine, it's a delicious, varied and exciting style of food that can be eaten every day. His recipes use ingredients that can be easily be found in supermarkets, and include essential pastes, dips and pickles that can then be used as a starting point to explore this fragrant cuisine, as well as small bites such as Tiger Prawn and Sweet Potato Fritters, stir-fries such as Sticky Pork Belly with Salted Roast Pumpkin and impressive sharing dishes such as Grilled Whole Seabass with Coconut Chilli Jam. A genuinely modern cookery book providing a refreshing, eclectic mix of southeast Asian dishes.
In 19th-century Edo, as busy and bustling as Tokyo, workers needed quick meals, and sushi made from vinegar-seasoned fish and rice was nutritious and invigorating. This book includes dozens of types of sushi, with large pictures and instructive text on each page, explaining the ingredients and techniques of Edomae sushi. Top sushi master Kikuo Shimizu, now 71 years old, reveals the secrets of Edomae sushi, the traditional sushi of Tokyo. By reading this book, you'll learn how real sushi in Tokyo is made, by an artisan sushi chef. Edomae literally means in
Spanish food is at the forefront of the culinary world. This is the first book to present the breadth of northern Spanish food in a simple and accessible way. All the dishes have been double-tested and are designed for cooking in your own kitchen. Each ingredient is carefully explained and key Spanish foods – such as peppers, beans and salt cod – are dealt with in detail. Every recipe stays faithful to the Spanish version (with some small adjustments for the non-Spanish cook). Accompanying text illuminates the history of the dish and offers different versions or useful tips. With wonderful reportage photos taken by the author and beautiful finished recipe shots by Jean Cazals, this title is both an insight into the cuisine of the area and a unique cookery book.