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Japanese Cooking Tips

Explore helpful Japanese cooking tips to improve your skills and make everyday recipes easier. Learn how to cook perfect rice, make flavorful dashi, slice ingredients the Japanese way, and use key pantry items like soy sauce, mirin, and miso.

Whether you’re just starting or want to master the details, these tips will help you cook smarter, save time, and bring authentic flavor to every dish.

Soaking the eggplant in the water. Soaking the eggplant in the water.

All Cooking Tips

  • A selection of glass pitchers with light-colored broths, a measuring cup with liquid, and a bamboo tray displaying dried seaweed, mushrooms, bonito flakes, and other dashi ingredients on a white surface.
    What is Dashi and How to Make It
  • Slicing the block of the ribeye and filet mignon thinly.
    How to Slice Meat Thinly
    18
    10 minutes
  • 3 easy bento boxes filled with delicious meals.
    Food Safety Tips For Bento
  • How to Deep Fry Foods
    How to Deep-Fry Food at Home
  • Multiple plates containing sashimi grade fish, including salmon, tuna, and kanpachi, garnished with shredded daikon, shiso leaves, and wasabi.
    How To Slice and Plate Sashimi
  • A display of Authentic and Creative Ramen Toppings
    Best Ramen Toppings: From Traditional to Unique Twists
  • A whole Kabocha squash is being peeled and cut into cubes on a cutting board.
    How to Cut a Kabocha Squash (Japanese Pumpkin)
  • Step by step instructions on how to cut half a salmon into thin Japanese-style fillets.
    How to Cut Salmon into Japanese-Style Fillets
    7
    10 minutes
  • A plastic bag containing yuzu zest.
    How to Store Yuzu Zest (Don’t Discard the Peel!)
    6
    1 hour 15 minutes
  • Cheese board filled with cheese, cold cuts, dried fruits, bread sticks, olives, grapes, and condiments.
    How To Make a Cheese Board
  • A Zojirushi lunch jar containing steamed rice, mapo tofu, fruits, and salad.
    How to Pack Bento in 15 Minutes (6 Lunch Ideas!)
  • Meal Prep for Bento: Freezer-Friendly Bento Dishes
    Meal Prep Freezer-Friendly Bento Dishes
  • Steamed vegetables on donabe steamer along with dipping sauce.
    Guide to Japanese Cooking Methods: Simmer, Grill, Steam & Fry
  • featured image of japanese vegetarian and vegan cooking
    Your Guide to Japanese Vegetarian & Vegan Cooking (Tips & Recipes)
  • Salmon kasuzuke served on a Japanese plate.
    Essential Japanese Cooking Tips for Beginners
  • Measuring the flour accurately with a measuring cup.
    How to Measure Flour (The Right Way)
    10
    3 minutes
  • Osechi ryori in 3 tier boxes.
    How to Pack Osechi Ryori in 3-Tier Boxes
  • Osechi Ryori | Easy Japanese Recipes at JustOneCookbook.com
    Osechi Cooking Timeline
  • Thickened sauce after adding adding cornstarch slurry.
    How to Thicken Sauce and Soup (Cornstarch Slurry)
    6
    5 minutes
  • 3 easy bento boxes filled with delicious meals.
    Meal Prep Bento Recipes Ideas: 3 Dollar Bento Challenge
  • Orange chiffon cake served on a cake stand.
    How to Make the Perfect Chiffon Cake
  • Glass airtight containers with steamed rice in them.
    How to Store Cooked Rice
    5
  • How to Devein Shrimp
    How to Devein Shrimp and Prawns (Video)
    10
    5 minutes
  • Various bento boxes for children.
    Your Guide to Bento Box Lunch お弁当の作り方
  • Shio Koji Karaage in the bento box.
    Frequently Asked Questions about Bento Making
  • Containers filled with freezer-friendly bento dishes.
    How To Freeze Food For Bento
    10 minutes
  • How To Wrap Wonton | Easy Japanese Recipes at JustOneCookbook.com
    How to Wrap Wontons
    9
    20 minutes
  • How To Prepare Shrimp for Shrimp Tempura | Easy Japanes Recipes at JustOneCookbook.com
    How To Prepare Shrimp For Shrimp Tempura & Ebi Fry
    21
    10 minutes
  • Clams being cleaned over a wire rack.
    How To Clean Clams — The Best Way to Purge Sand
    50
    1 hour 15 minutes
  • Occasionally skim the scum and foam in the shabu shabu hot pot.
    How To Skim Off the Scum and Fat from Soups and Stocks (灰汁取り)
    4
  • Gyoza
    How to Fold Gyoza
    10
    30 minutes
  • Otoshibuta | Easy Japanese Recipes at JustOneCookbook.com
    What is Otoshibuta (Drop Lid) and How to Make It 落し蓋