6 Authentic Japanese Local Side Dishes - Hidden Gems of Japanese Cuisine

Local dishes from various regions of Japan are arranged into easy-to-prepare side dishes.
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【CHAPTER】
00:00 Intro & Side Dish Using Kagoshima's Specialty, Pork Miso
05:43 Aomori (Tsugaru)'s Local Cuisine, Braised Green Beans
08:31 Hokkaido's Local Cuisine, Chan-Chan Style Salmon
11:22 Fukushima's Local Cuisine, Daikon Mochi
14:25 Okinawan's Local Cuisine, Fu Champuru (Stir-fry)
18:48 Yamagata's Local Cuisine, Dashi (with Cold Tofu)

1. Side Dish Using Kagoshima's Specialty, Pork Miso

Ingredients [for 2 servings]
Pork miso
・2.8 oz (80g) Pork belly
・Half clove of Garlic (grated)
・Half piece of Ginger (grated)
・1.4 oz (40g) Miso paste
・2.5 tbsp Brown sugar (Raw sugar)
・1 tbsp Mirin
・1 tsp Sake
・1/2 tsp Dashi powder or 2 tbsp Dried bonito flakes

Stir-fry
・1-2 tbsp Pork miso
・3.5 oz (100g) Eggplant
・3.5 oz (100g) Kabocha squash
・1.7 oz (50g) Bell peppers
・1 tsp Oil
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2. Aomori (Tsugaru)'s Local Cuisine, Braised Green Beans

Ingredients [for 2 servings]
・5 oz (140g) Green beans
・6.3 oz (180g) Shirataki (Noodles made from konnyaku)
・1 sheet of Thin fried tofu
・3.5 oz (100g) Pork
・A pinch of Salt and pepper
・1 tsp Oil

・2 tbsp Soy sauce
・1 tbsp Sake
・1 tbsp Sugar
・1 tbsp Mirin
・A pinch of Dashi powder (optional)
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3. Hokkaido's Local Cuisine, Chan-Chan Style Salmon

Ingredients [for 2 servings]
・4.6 oz (130g) Salmon
・3.5 oz (100g) Bean sprouts
・2 oz (60g) Cabbage
・2 oz (60g) Onion
・1 oz (30g) Carrot
・10g Butter
・2 tbsp Miso paste
・2 tbsp Mirin
・1 tsp Chicken stock powder
・Salt and pepper
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4. Fukushima's Local Cuisine, Daikon Mochi

Ingredients [for 2 servings]
・8.5 oz (240g) Daikon radish
・2-3 tbsp Minced green onion
・0.7 oz (20g) Crab sticks (Imitation crab meat)
・1 tbsp Flour
・1 tbsp Potato starch
・A pinch of Dashi powder
・A pinch of Salt and pepper
・1 tsp Oil
・Nori seaweed (optional)

Sauce
・1 tsp Sake
・1 tsp Soy sauce
・1 tsp Mirin
・A little Butter
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5. Okinawan's Local Cuisine, Fu Champuru (Stir-fry)

Ingredients [for 2 servings]
・1 oz (30g) Fu (Wheat gulten cake)
・3.5 oz (100g) Bean sprouts
・2.5 oz (70g) Onion
・2 oz (60g) Pork belly or Bacon or Spam
・1 oz (30g) Carrot

・2 Eggs
・1 tsp Sake
・1 tsp Soy sauce
・A pinch of Dashi powder

・2 tsp Oil
・A pinch of Salt and pepper
・A pinch of Dashi powder
・A pinch of MSG (optional)
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6. Yamagata's Local Cuisine, Dashi (with Cold Tofu)

Ingredients [for 2 servings]
Dashi (Yamagata Prefecture style pickles)
・4.6 oz (130g) Eggplant
・3.5 oz (100g) Cucumber
・1/2 oz (15g) Ginger
・1 Myoga ginger
・5 sheets of Shiso
・3 tbsp Soy sauce
・1 tbsp Mirin
・1/2 tbsp Sugar
・1/2 tbsp Rice vinegar
・1 tbsp Shio kombu (Shredded salted kombu)

・Your favorite tofu

[gustonzimasheen]

8:32: I've been buying a lot more salmon lately and this recipe is ideal. However when I've been cooking it, I just place it on a metal tray with some butter and put it in the airfryer oven and bake it for about 5-10 mins. The skin goes all crispy and delicious like potato chips.

[katferments]

Wonderful video! Thank you for sharing! I'm looking forward to making the green bean dish!

[nervousbunnygaming]

美味しそう👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 I make these for my husband’s bento~

[giacngoaudio]

Super! So delicious! Thank you for your video! Your video is very good, not slow, not fast.

[raven_wallace]

I cooked a pork miso from this video and it was delicious! Thank you for your recipes. The only thing - I always skip the sugar because it's forbidden for me by the doctor. Anyway all your recipes I tried were good even without sugar.

[pinkmonkeybird]

I’ve made several of these side dishes to eat over rice or tofu lately and really enjoyed them.

I have not been able to eat large meals as I’m recovering from illness, but I find cooking a relaxing way to rebuild my energy, and these small plates provide healthy foods in portions that I can eat without being overwhelmed by heavy sauces or thick cuts of meat. The fu champuru is my favorite, followed closely by the dashi, pork miso, and salmon chan chan. Okay, so I liked almost all of them. I do not like shirataki noodles, but I bet the dish could be made successfully with mung bean or rice noodles, what do you think?

[mikaellarsson]

Super nice as always, Sayaka. Kagoshima, almost home turf for me. Yes, they have very good pork and also very good sake. Never been to Hokkaido, always though it is too cold there and my gf refuses the cold. Would like to go for the crabs though. Salmon with crispy skin is great, keep the skin, blow torch is useful! Also for various tataki and aburi sushi. I think your daikon mochi is the only mochi I can eat :-)) Can not stand regular sweet mochi, it just grows in my mouth. In my book book no champuru without goya - bitter melon/gourd, it lifts this hash to another level. And pork belly is way better than SPAM. Some baked fu is ok, but not too much. Bean sprouts is very good, but not overcooked. Something else very good from Okinawa is 3-4 weeks fermented tofu with awamori, it is like a fine French dessert cheese. Easy to make with miso, have done it. Never tasted or made the Yamagata "dashi", but will try, it seems delicious. Will omit the shiso, but surely include the salted kombu. And, yes, eggplant is fine raw in small pieces as a pickle. Arigato for another fine clip with many tips! See you next time.

[decemberclouds]

I bought fu once so I could add it to miso soup! I think it was the baked type, so I made it incorrectly... I will look for the other type again!