/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>9381135
I don't know. When I cook, or when I'm looking at recipes, I don't really wonder "is this authentic?" Like I don't make authentic Italian lasagna, I like making really spicy and really saucy lasagna, and I do the same thing when I make Japanese/Asian food.

I eat authentic Japanese food when I go to restaurants, and like another Anon said, the flavors are really subtle. When I think authentic Japanese food I think of something like yakitori, which is just chicken on a skewer, and usually there are two flavors: salt or soy sauce. It's really just salty chicken on a stick. They do the same thing with grilled fish, they just add some salt and that's it.

Other authentic Japanese food I can think of are pickled vegetables. I once met a really old Japanese woman and for lunch she just ate a ton of pickled onions and carrots with a little soy sauce and that was her lunch. In Japan everyone eats a big dinner like that on January 1st. It's probably really authentic, but I don't know if you want to just eat pickled lotus root and cucumbers as a meal. I wouldn't. Maybe as a side dish, but not an entre. You can always look for a miso soup recipe or a curry recipe. That's pretty popular.

Just look up Japanese recipes on the internet. If the recipe tells you to make a thick dipping sauce, like a honey mustard soy sauce, or if it tells you to add a ton of sugar, or non-Japanese fruits and vegetables like tomatoes or mangos, or spices like 5 Spice, which is Chinese, then it's probably not authentic. I think that's your best bet. Learn what ingredients aren't in "authentic" Japanese food and adjust whatever recipes you find accordingly.

>>8311116
Curry
Nikujaga
Umani
Yakisoba
Shogayaki (ginger pork)
Tonjiru
Sukiyaki

Though I don't know what ingredients are available to you.

More?

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>>5755127
There are a ton of Japanese cooking infographics floating around. I've only saved four, but I'll post those. I also have a cookbook that has traditional Japanese recipes in it in both English and Japanese. You could try to find something similar (it helps if you can read Japanese).

bumping with Japanese food

>>5257787
pork and vegetable miso soup

Think I have most of these saved so will start posting them.

>>4735000
I'd usually tell you to check chanarchive OP, because there was a great archived thread on there from a few months ago that was filled with tonnes of translated recipes in cartoon strips from a few cooking books, but the fucking server is dead again, and it doesn't look like any of the admins is going to be bothered fixing it ever: I'll dump the ones I do have though.

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