As with every recipe for fried rice, start with cold (or at least room temperature) cooked rice. It doesn’t work with rice hot out of the cooker, which becomes heavy and stodgy when stir-fried.

Most popularly, these entail a starch option (usually a bowl of white rice ... natto) and one final dish. Salmon and mackerel are two popular protein options, typically quickly pan-fried or ...

You can make shichimi infused fried rice with the sauce after the meat ... For the dressing, mix the nori paste with finely chopped hikiwari natto. 3. Cut the turnips into quarters and peel.

Chef Saito cooks Shrimp Spring Rolls with Japanese Herbs, and Butter-fried Nagaimo with Natto Sauce. Yu Hayami joins the chef as we learn about Japanese home cooking. 1. Devein the shrimp and cut ...

A start-up firm affiliated with Keio University developed a new food source made of a powdered form of a bacterium used for natto fermented ... also apparently make rice cakes easier to chew.