Hiroko's American Kitchen: Cooking with Japanese Flavors by Hiroko Shimbo

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  • White sumiso sauce

    • kshell on February 12, 2024

      10/10 would make again!

  • Potato and salmon salad

    • kshell on February 12, 2024

      Updating to say this is best eaten when fresh. The leftovers lost all the wonderful flavor of the sauce and the red onion took over. A nice change from mayo based potato salad. It dirtied a fair amount of dishes but some steps could be streamlined and now that I've made it I feel comfortable eyeballing some of the ingredients.

  • Spicy miso sauce

    • Ganga108 on April 11, 2025

      Fabulous sauce with lots of uses. Make and store in the freezer. It does not solidify so is perfect for dolloping into any dish. When Taste published it some time ago, a friend pushed me to have a look at it. I was very sceptical – cooking miso is not something that I do often (heat destroys some of its health properties), and cooking lemon juice is rarer (cooking changes its flavour). But one Saturday afternoon when I needed a sauce for roasted broccoli, I set about making it. With only 5 ingredients – miso, rice vinegar, sugar, lemon juice and mirim – the result is precisely as you imagine. Dark. Rich. Bright. Chilli-hot. Sweet.

  • Miso-beef ragu and udon noodles

    • ccav on December 24, 2020

      Add soy sauce while cooking meat sauce and trapeze hot sauce, chili paste instead of red pepper flakes

  • BBC sauce

    • MollyB on January 28, 2022

      Fabulous savory/sweet sauce! (The "BBC" stands for "Best Basting and Cooking." I love it in the book's Chicken Rice Bowl recipe.

  • Chicken rice bowl

    • MollyB on January 28, 2022

      I love this recipe, and have made it many times. The BBC sauce (from the book) makes the dish. I like it with Calrose rice. It's best with skin-on boneless breasts as the recipe recommends, but I've made it with other chicken pieces and it's still been good. It also works with different green vegetables, like green beans, as long as they're cut into roughly bite-size pieces.

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Reviews about this book

  • Serious Eats

    Instead, the book is an extension of the Japanese tradition of sharing and blending food cultures. Bites of her food taste of both America and Japan melding into a new, harmonious plate.

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  • Fine Cooking

    With this brilliant recipe collection, award-winning cookbook author Hiroko Shimbo demonstrates how easy it can be to bring Japanese cooking to the American table.

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  • Yum.Fi

    It serves as a great introduction to making your own Japanese food and if you get the bug you can always then try more “authentic” books if you wish to be a purist.

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Reviews about Recipes in this Book

  • Chicken namban

    • Serious Eats

      The super sauce adds an explosive jolt of umami to an otherwise simple chicken and sweet potato dish. I needed to fry the sweet potatoes in smaller batches, in less oil, in order to fry them safely...

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  • Vegetables with sumiso bagna cauda

    • Serious Eats

      Miso, anchovy, and garlic effortlessly meld together for a serious umami-bomb. Delicately poached vegetables are the perfect mild vehicle for sopping up all that sauce.

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  • Ramen with chashu pork

    • Serious Eats

      ...the soy-cured eggs are a creamy and salty treat of their own. Taste-wise, I could've done without the cabbage, but it did add a nice burst of color to the finished dish.

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  • Traditional braised daikon (Furo-fuki daikon)

    • Serious Eats

      ...given its size and density, this technique makes perfect sense. Gently braising daikon renders it tender and subtly sweet, a perfect foil to the salty and spicy miso sauce.

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  • Sukiyaki in an American kitchen

    • Serious Eats

      I thought the broth was too salty. Next time, I'll be sure to only lightly season the steak and perhaps swap in low-sodium soy sauce for the regular stuff.

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  • Agedashi-dofu

    • Fine Cooking

      I always order this dish (deep-fried tofu in dashi broth) at my favorite Japanese restaurant, so I was delighted to learn how to make this satisfying version. My family loves it.

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  • Glazed chicken meatballs

    • Fine Cooking

      These tasty morsels are now a go-to recipe at our house. We all adore the tangy-sweet glaze, but I especially love that the meatballs are loaded with finely minced carrots, scallions, and mushrooms.

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  • ISBN 10 1449409784
  • ISBN 13 9781449409784
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  • Published Oct 30 2012
  • Format Paperback
  • Page Count 224
  • Language English
  • Countries United States
  • Publisher Andrews McMeel Publishing

Publishers Text

Incorporating Japanese flavors into your everyday Western menu is simple using six easy sauces to create 125 quick and delicious recipes. Well-loved best-selling cookbook author Hiroko Shimbo shares the key to marrying Japanese and Western flavors.

You love Japanese food. You enjoy it at restaurants whenever you can. But what you really want to do is to prepare it in your own kitchen. That's easy using Hiroko Shimbo's classic books, The Japanese Kitchen and The Sushi Experience. But wait: Can you find the ingredients? Can you take the time to prepare it? Your friends, family, significant other--will they relish these "foreign" dishes the way you do?

Hiroko's American Kitchen provides answers to all of those questions. Here there are 125 new recipes that highlight the best of Japanese cuisine, but in new, simpler ways. The recipes are organized in chapters, each using one of two stocks or four sauces. By preparing and storing these easily made items, with a minimum of time and fuss you can enjoy a wide variety of delicious dishes every day. These are recipes that use the ingredients that you have or can easily purchase, and are prepared and served in dishes that are familiar to American tastes and dining habits. In other words, delicious, healthful Japanese dishes designed for the American kitchen and the American diner. The recipes include Corn and Ginger Rice with Shoyu and Butter, Quick Gingered Pork Burger, Chunky Potato and Leek Soup with Miso, Avocado and Yellowfin Tuna Salad, and Curried Miso Peanuts. This is not fusion or confusion cooking, but a respectful extension of traditional Japanese cooking to bring to your table.

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