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How-Tos

Learn Japanese cooking basics in our how-to guides with helpful tips on how to wrap gyoza, thinly slice meat, store cooked rice, and more.

3 easy bento boxes filled with delicious meals.

Food Safety Tips For Bento

A plate containing Onsen Tamago (Japanese hot spring egg) made with a microwave.

2-Minute Microwave Onsen Tamago

5 from 6 votes
Perfectly cooked Japanese short-grain rice being served in the Japanese rice bowl.

How to Cook Japanese Rice in a Pot on the Stove (Video)

4.63 from 166 votes

Your Guide to Japanese Noodles & Delicious Recipes

Varioius types of donabe, Japanese clay pots on the table.

How To Season Your Donabe (Japanese Clay Pot)

5 from 3 votes
Donabe

How to Choose the Best Donabe (Japanese Clay Pot)

How to Deep Fry Foods

How to Deep-Fry Food at Home

Sushi oke (Hangiri) containing sushi rice made with cooked Japanese short-grain rice, rice vinegar, sugar, and salt.

How to Make Sushi Rice (Video) 酢飯

4.57 from 497 votes
Fresh homemade mochi made with a stand mixer.

How to Make Mochi with a Stand Mixer (Homemade Mochi) お餅の作り方

4.45 from 273 votes
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 rice cooker containing freshly cooked brown rice.

How to Cook Short-Grain Brown Rice in a Rice Cooker 玄米

4.84 from 6 votes
A display of Authentic and Creative Ramen Toppings

Best Ramen Toppings

Osechi ryori in 3 tier boxes.

Osechi Ryori (Japanese New Year’s Food) おせち料理

newly seasoned and well used carbon steel fry pan

How To Season A Carbon Steel Pan: Step By Step Guide

A white plate containing a Dragon Roll.

Best Sushi Recipes to Make At Home (How to Guide)

4.80 from 5 votes
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

5 from 7 votes
A Japanese grocery store showing the rice shelf.

Japanese Rice – Everything You Need to Know

Green Tea A Century Old Japanese Drink for Better Health

Green Tea: A Century Old Japanese Drink for Better Health

Japanese kitchen tools on marble

Essential Japanese Kitchen Tools

A plastic bag containing yuzu zest.

How to Store Yuzu Zest (Don’t Discard the Peel!)

5 from 6 votes
A Japanese clay pot simmering chicken meatballs, tofu, mushrooms, and various vegetables in a savory dashi broth.

Nabe: A Guide to Japanese Hot Pot 鍋物

A Zojirushi lunch jar containing steamed rice, mapo tofu, fruits, and salad.

How to Pack Bento in 15 Minutes (6 Lunch Ideas!)

Homemade miso in weck jars.

The Health Benefits of Miso

Japanese Rice

Types of Japanese Rice

Tofu | Easy Japanese Recipes at JustOneCookbook.com

Tofu: The Nutrient Rich Superfood

Rice paddle scooping rice out of the kamadosan donabe containing perfectly cooked Japanese rice.

How To Cook Rice in a Donabe 土鍋ご飯の炊き方

4.86 from 28 votes
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

essential ingredients such as sesame oil, soy sauce, udon, shiitake mushrooms, curry roux for japanese cooking

26 Japanese Pantry Ingredients to Add to Your Shopping List

Measuring the flour accurately with a measuring cup.

How to Measure Flour (The Right Way)

4.67 from 9 votes
collage of Japanese superfoods such as shiitake mushroom, seaweed, green tea, natto, miso

Top Japanese Superfoods to Include in Your Diet

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)

4.84 from 6 votes
Japanese knives on a shelf.

Your Guide to Japanese Knives

How to Host a Japanese-Themed Party | Easy Japanese Recipes at JustOneCookbook.com

How to Host a Japanese-Themed Party

6 Must-Have Condiments to Make Your Favorite Japanese Food

6 Must-Have Condiments to Make Your Favorite Japanese Food

Tableware 2019

10 Cookware & Tableware You Should Get from Japan

Japanese curry served with rice.

How I Use Instant Pot for Japanese Cooking

5 Reasons Why I Love My Instant Pot | Easy Japanese Recipes at JustOneCookbook.com

Which Instant Pot Should I Buy? Instant Pot Duo vs Instant Pot Ultra

Spaghetti Bolognese on a white plate next to the Instant Pot.

5 Reasons Why I Love My Instant Pot

3 easy bento boxes filled with delicious meals.

Meal Prep Bento Recipes Ideas: 3 Dollar Bento Challenge

Gluten Free Japanese Noodles

Gluten Free Japanese Noodles

Perfectly cooked rice served in a rice bowl along with miso soup.

How to Make Japanese Rice in an Instant Pot

4.66 from 102 votes
Kitchen equipped for cooking Japanese food.

How to Build a Kitchen for Cooking Japanese Food – A Beginner’s Guide

Soba vs Udon Noodles

What is the Difference Between Soba and Udon Noodles

DIY Thinly Sliced Meat

How to Slice Meat Thinly

4.89 from 18 votes
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