Everyday Harumi: Simple Japanese food for family and friends

by Harumi Kurihara

Overview

Bestselling cookbook writer Harumi Kurihara brings together authentic, Japanese home cooking that everyone can do.


In Everyday Harumi, Japan's most popular cookery writer Harumi Kurihara selects her favourite foods and presents more than 60 home-style recipes for you to make for family and friends. Harumi wants everyone to be able to make her recipes and she demonstrates how easy it is to cook Japanese food for everyday occasions without needing to shop at specialty food stores.


Using many of her favorite ingredients, Harumi presents recipes for soups, starters, snacks, party dishes, main courses and family feasts that are quick and simple to prepare, all presented in her effortless, down-to-earth and unpretentious approach to stylish living and eating. Every recipe is photographed and includes beautiful step-by-step instructions that show key Japanese cooking techniques. Texture and flavor are important to Japanese food and Harumi takes you through the basic sauces you can make at home and the staples you should have in your store cupboard.


Photographed by award-winning photographer Jason Lowe, this warm and approachable cookbook invites you to cook and share Japanese food in a simple and elegant style.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781840917871
Publisher:	Octopus Books
Publication date:	06/04/2019
Pages:	192
Sales rank:	1,140,748
Product dimensions:	7.60(w) x 10.00(h) x 1.00(d)
Age Range:	4 - 18 Years

About the Author

Harumi Kurihara's cooking, lifestyle books and magazines have made the charismatic former housewife a phenomenon in her native Japan and she has sold more than 20 million copies worldwide. She currently has more than 60 shops and cafés in Japan that sell her homeware, cookware and clothing ranges. Her success is rooted in her effortless, down-to-earth and unpretentious approach to stylish living and eating, which follows a philosophy of elegance and simplicity. Harumi's own inspiration derives from her traditional upbringing in a big family in central Japan. Later, as a full-time housewife and mother, married to Reiji Kurihara, a former TV anchorman, she found her talent to create delicious, simple to prepare, fashionable meals, without great expense. This skill, combined with her eye for simple, beautiful and practical home decoration has made her the most celebrated lifestyle authority in Japan.

Table of Contents

Introduction 10

Kitchen cupboard essentials 16

Sauces and Dressings 24

Banno Soy Sauce

Mentsuyu

Ponzu Soy Sauce

Sesame Paste

Miso Paste

Sweetened Vinegar with Mirin

Sweetened Vinegar without Mirin

Beef 34

Harumi's Barbecue Sauce

Beef and Finely-shredded Vegetable Soup

Steak in a Miso Marinade

Chicken 40

Chicken and Celery Salad

Deep-fried Chicken with a Leek Sauce

Karaage Chicken

Yakitori

Mini Chicken Fillets with Mayonnaise

Pork 52

Simmered Pork in Crêpes

Japanese Tsukune with Teriyaki Sauce

Tonkatsu

Katsudon

Ginger Pork

Green Beans with Ground Pork

Fish 66

Halibut and Daikon Soup

Flaked Mackerel with Vegetables

Salmon and Shrimp Fish Cakes

Salmon Nanbanzuke

Simmered Sea Bream

Tuna Tataki Salad

Shellfish 78

Shrimp and Chicken Ankake Donburi

Shrimp in Crispy Breadcrumbs

Scallops with Nori Seaweed

Deep-fried Scallops with Mozzarella

Rice 86

Rice Cooked with Sea Bream

Three Toppings Rice

Rice with Soy-flavored Pork and Carrots

Onigiri Rice Balls with Ground Chicken

Green Pea Rice

Rice with Fresh Ginger

Mazesushi

Fried Rice with Crabmeat

Noodles 108

Hot Noodle Soup with Sliced Duck

Cold Soba Noodles with Grated Daikon

Udon Noodles with a Ground Meat Miso Sauce

Yaki Soba (Fried Noodles with Pork and Cabbage)

Eggs 116

Chawan Mushi (Steamed Savory Custard)

Egg Drop Soup

Tofu 120

Tofu Salad with a Sesame Dressing

Mabo Dofu (Tofu with a Spicy Ground Meat Sauce)

Tofu Steak

Tofu with Crunchy Toppings

Miso 130

Mackerel Cooked in Miso

Miso Soup with Sesame and Tofu

Tonjiru (Pork and Vegetable Miso Soup)

Miso Soup with Potato and Onion

Halibut and Eggplant Miso Gratin

Ginger 140

Gari (Sweet Pickled Ginger)

Sesame 142

Green Beans with a Sesame Dressing

Pumpkin with a Sweet Sesame Glaze

Vegetables with a Sesame Dip

Watercress 150

Watercress with a Light Peanut Dressing

Spinach 152

Lightly Cooked Spinach with Soy Sauce

Cucumber 156

Quick Pickled Cucumber

Cucumber and Wakame Seaweed in a Sweet Pickled Dressing

Asparagus 160

Asparagus Shiraae

Eggplant 162

Eggplant in Spicy Sauce

Tomato 166

Lightly Pickled Tomatoes

Potato 168

Mashed Potato with a Japanese-style Mushroom Sauce

New Potatoes with Shrimp and Chicken Japanese-style

Potatoes with a Sweet Soy Dressing

Carrots 174

Lightly Pickled Julienne Carrots and Celery

Crispy Salad with Grated Carrots and Ponzu Soy Dressing

Cauliflower 178

Hot Lightly Pickled Cauliflower

Cabbage 180

Japanese Coleslaw Salad

Mixed Vegetables 182

Sautéed Leeks and Mushrooms

Mixed Vegetables in a Mentsuyu Sauce

Vegetable Salad with a Miso Dressing

Stockists 190

Acknowledgments 192