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Congee days and ramen nights

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  • Recipes
    • Appetizers
    • Salads
    • Soups
    • Main courses
    • Side dishes
    • Sweets
    • Snacks
    • Beverages
  • Cooking tips
    • Kitchen how-tos
    • Cooking ingredients
    • Kitchen tools
  • Food stories
  • Umami Art Club

One Bowl Meals

Rice bowls and noodle bowls to feed a few or to feed a crowd. With meat, with seafood, meatless, with or without broth. For everyday meals and even for special occasions. Make beef pho, poke bowl, fried rice. Cook pasta in every imaginable way.

Bacon asparagus mac and cheese in vitage blue bowl

Bacon asparagus mac and cheese

A one-pot dish, this mac and cheese variant derives its flavors from bacon, its rendered fat fat and garlic cooked in butter. Shredded cheese is added to create a creamy …

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Congee with crispy mushrooms

Congee with crispy mushrooms

Battered oyster mushrooms are fried to a crisp and dropped into a hot bowl of congee for an invigorating breakfast. A sprinkle of aonori and spicy furikake adds both …

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Sweet soy sauce pork belly ramen

Sweet soy sauce pork belly ramen

A variation of nikujaga, the Japanese beef and potato stew, thick slices of pork belly and instant ramen are used in this recipe. I’m hesitant to call it a Japanese dish …

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Pot roast ramen with shoyu egg

Pot roast ramen with soy sauce egg

The latest addition to our instant ramen hacks, pot roast ramen is served with slices of tender beef, hard-boiled eggs, bok choy and scallions.

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Chirashi (scattered) sushi platter

Chirashi (scattered) sushi platter

A special occasion dish in Japan, chirashi sushi is a platter of sushi rice topped with an array of protein (meat or seafood), eggs and vegetables.

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Sesame chicken sprinkled with scallions served over rice

Sesame chicken

Deep-fried chicken fillets are tossed in a sweet and subtly tangy sauce, and coated with sesame seeds. It’s more Chinese-American than authentic Chinese.

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Pasta Alfredo topped with bacon and parsley

Pasta Alfredo (no cream, of course!)

Surprised? Think of it this way. Pasta Alfredo with cream is the American fast food version. Pasta Alfredo done right, without cream, is how the Italians make it.

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