Japanese Recipes
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Cilantro Soup With Monkfish
Chicken and Scallion Soba
Baked Fish With Sesame and Ginger
Here's a virtuous though incredibly flavorful way to prepare any firm white-fleshed fish like cod, halibut or rock fish. Marinate the fish in a bit of fresh ginger and sesame oil then bake in the oven for about 10 minutes. Finish it off with a sprinkling of black sesame seeds, chopped scallions and a few slices of pickled ginger. Serve over a bed of steamed spinach and tender white rice.
Miso-Broiled Scallops
Miso, the traditional Japanese soybean paste, is one of those convenience foods whose complexity belies its ingredients: it contains only soybeans, salt and grain (usually rice or barley, though others are used too), inoculated with the Aspergillus orzyae bacteria and aged for up to three years. The production process is not unlike that for good hard cheese, and miso is frequently compared with Parmesan. It is equally complex, and both are known for the strong presence of umami, the Japanese word for the fifth taste (after salt, sour, sweet and bitter), roughly translated as ''deliciousness.'' Here, miso is combined with little more than scallops, then allowed to sit for a while before grilling or broiling. The combination and preparation are traditional, the equivalent of slathering something with barbecue sauce before cooking. Of course, miso is a far cry from barbecue sauce: its elegance is unmistakable.
Cold Soba Noodles (Zaru Soba)
Montauk Bluefin-Tuna Tartar With Fresh Herbs
This recipe is totally inspired by the freshness of the ingredients. The tuna has to be of the best sashimi quality, preferably from a belly cut where there is more fat. As for the herbs, I harvest them from our farm just before I start the preparation, and then I mince them with a very sharp knife so as not to bruise them.''
Japanese-Style Shellfish Soup
Clams With Asian Noodles
Miso Mayonnaise
Don’t limit your use of miso to soup! It makes for a fantastic compound butter. It’s terrific cut with mirin and slathered over chicken. And here, stirred into mayonnaise, it becomes a consciousness-expanding condiment.
Oysters With Seaweed And Cucumber Mignonette
Asparagus With Miso Butter
This combination of miso and butter is natural and delicious, too. Miso butter looks a little like cake frosting and is just as easy to lick off the fingers. With the egg yolk dripping onto the butter and the asparagus spears dipped into the eggy, miso slurry, you're looking at a four-star dish at a neighborhood restaurant — or at home. Watch our video on how to poach an egg
Cucumber Salad With Seaweed
Miso Spice
Limiting miso to soup is like limiting Parmesan to pasta. For starters, you can dry it and turn it into a condiment (which happens to be reminiscent of Parmesan). Use this to season a whole fish, croutons or bread crumbs; sprinkle the top of bread with it before baking; warm it in sesame or peanut oil for a bagna-cauda-style dip.
Miso Butter
Years ago, David Chang of Momofuku showed me how to create a fantastic compound butter with miso. Use it melted on fish, chicken or steak (lots of umami); on asparagus, broccoli or carrots; or drizzled on a baked sweet potato (or a regular baked potato).
Miso Butterscotch
Miso butterscotch sounds like dessert — and indeed can be — but it is better imagined as a step beyond the caramel sauce you may know from Vietnamese cooking. Use it on poached pears or apples; as a marinade for meat; as a braising base for sturdy vegetables like cabbage, eggplant, turnips or new potatoes; or as a sundae sauce, especially over fruit ice creams or sorbets.