With 33 recipes, this cookbook includes the classic chawanmushi, gyudon, and tamagoyaki, as well as modern favorites like California rolls and green tea ice cream.
Nami focuses on the authentic methods of how the Japanese cooks prepare these delicious meals at home. You’ll learn to make chicken teriyaki just like how her grandmother and mother taught her. The book also includes essential pantry items and cooking basics like making perfect steamed rice, sushi rice, and dashi soup stock. These published recipes have been tested and highly rated by her worldwide blog readers, so you too can make them in your kitchen with ease and confidence.
The Just One Cookbook Essential Japanese Recipes will be the perfect guide for all beginners in Japanese cooking.

Meet The Author
Namiko Chen was born and raised in Yokohama, Japan. She grew up in a household filled with family preparing delicious food and her late grandfather owned a couple of teppanyaki restaurants in Osaka. Since elementary school, she spent almost every evening in her mother’s kitchen helping her prepare dinner. Nami started cooking for herself when she came to California as a foreign student when she was 20 years old. When she got married and had two young kids of her own, she started a blog – Just One Cookbook – to record all these precious family recipes and to share them with her friends. Things quickly took off from there, and today, Just One Cookbook has evolved into the world’s most visited Japanese recipe website in the world. Nami lives in San Francisco with her Taiwanese-American husband, two children, and their puppy Miso.
As Seen On
Just One Cookbook was the finalist for the 2017 SAVEUR Blog Awards in the Best Food Video category.